Today, on Facebook in a group I belong to, someone asked for people to post the location of the last book you read to see if people could guess the book. It's not hard to miss Bucksnort, Colorado, for a location. If anyone has read any part of the series Brides of Hope Mountain by Mary Connealy, that person will know about Bucksnort. Her Secret Song is the final book in this series, and the story of Ursula's finding a husband. Ursula, Jo, and Ilsa all have their back-woods talents: Ursula is deadly with an axe, Jo can shoot with her bow and arrow with uncanny accuracy, and Ilsa is more than proficient with a knife. All three of them can walk through the woods in utter silence and notice things before most other people could. The three girls have lived all of their lives on Hope Mountain, never going down the mountain into town because of the fear their grandmother held about the diseases others would bring to their mountain. Ursula is the last to overcome her fear and after a winter alone decides to go down the mountain only to have her trek interrupted by finding the wounded body of Wax Mosby. She carries him back to her cabin to nurse his wounds.
This is the book that pulls all the loose threads in the other two and binds them up in a nice, neat package. It was such a satisfying conclusion to the series. In many ways, this book reminded me of the movie, "The Cowboys," with John Wayne. In the movie, the boys set out to take the cattle back from the rustlers who killed their leader. They use sneakiness and ingenuity to overcome their enemies. The girls and their husbands, or boyfriend in Ursula's case, work together to overcome a common enemy and his minions and to restore the Circle Dash Ranch back to the Wardens. All of the minions of Canton, the land-grabber, are wanted men and have prices on their heads. That makes the mission of capturing them all the more important. Definitely a Five Star Book, with two thumbs up, and a reclaimed ranch.
Bethany House Publishing and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are my own. 
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