Anna Schmidt. Barbour, $12.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-62029-140-5
In this first installment of the Peacemakers trilogy, Schmidt introduces protagonist Beth Bridgewater. An American Quaker, Beth is a pacifist, as are the aunt and uncle she lives with in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s. Beth’s uncle, a professor at...
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Anna Schmidt. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4926-1296-4
Schmidt, best known for her inspirational and Amish romances, tackles a different genre with this predictable historical western, which opens the Last Chance Cowboys series. In 19th-century Arizona, Maria Porterfield has inherited a modest ranch...
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Leigh Greenwood et al. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (512p) ISBN 978-1-4926-5677-7
Greenwood takes top billing in a collection of six flimsy stories in which cowboys and pioneer women seek their soulmates against the backdrop of Christmas. In “Father Christmas,” the strongest of the collection, Greenwood introduces readers to Joe...
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Anna Schmidt. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4926-1305-3
Schmidt’s enjoyable fourth Last Chance Cowboys historical (after The Outlaw) has the unusual backdrop of tensions between cattle ranchers and sheep herders in the late-19th-century Arizona Territory. Beautiful and resilient Nell Stokes is doing her...
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Anna Schmidt. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4926-6704-9
Schmidt (the Last Chance Cowboys series) builds this middling romantic western around strong and plucky farm girl Grace Rogers, who travels to New Mexico to become a Harvey Girl, one of the first waitresses of the Old West. On her way there, she...
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Anna Schmidt. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4926-6707-0
The second in Schmidt’s Cowboys and Harvey Girls western series (after Trailblazer) is a serviceable but unremarkable example of the genre. Lily Travis, a friend to Grace Rogers, the first book’s protagonist, has little to look forward to except...
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Leigh Greenwood et al. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (528p) ISBN 978-1-4926-8383-4
Brimming with holiday magic, this feel-good anthology of historical romance novellas, all centered on the cowboy mystique and second chances, will delight and charm. Greenwood opens with “A Fairy Tale Christmas,” a sweet tale of Nan, a lonely...
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