I had some problems enjoying this book, but it's a fairly funny circumstance so I think I'll share.
I'm very particular about my romance, so when a book starts off slow (slow as in the hero and the heroine aren't together), I'm aware. I forgave in this case because I realized the author was tying this book to her last one in Last Chance, California, and previous readers would enjoy revisiting old characters. I wasn't a previous reader, but I went along.
Then on page 41, we get the hero/heroine meet. Under duress Nevada King participates in a stage robbery where Christy Grey has been shot. Christy demands help from the robbers (Nevada) and even goes so far as to demand privacy for him to help her (away from the other stage coach passengers.) This seems so bizarrely out of character to me that this one scene colors the rest of my reading. Now I'm tuned to be critical.
But after I finish the book (Guy gets the girl, if you aren't a romance pro and don't realize that), I'm reading the author notes and I discover Miralee had found some history where this scene had occurred in real life. Kind of funny, huh?
That knowledge was too late to save the book for me, but it does temper my written response. If you like Christian historical romance and now that you've been warned to forgive the opening, there's no reason to assume you won't like Love Finds You in Tombstone, AZ — where the author included lots of true-to-life places and people.
