I have always been a little in awe of people who read a book a day, or more than one book a day. I think I could do it with books like this.

Granted, the size makes that more reasonable than anything else. At 180 pages or so, it's easy to speed through the story, but a bad story would stop me cold on page five, and Thunderbolt over Texas is a great story.

Sydney Wainsbrook is a museum curator in desperate need of a great find to save her job in NY. There's a brooch she knows about, though, the Thunderbolt of the North. If she could get her hands on that before her rival does, she'd be set. There's only one problem: the brooch is traditionally passed down to the wife of the eldest Erickson son.

And Cole Erickson has no intention of getting married. His little brother has, and he's willing to break tradition and give it to his new sister-in-law. Would, if only his Grandmother would agree. But Grandma's determined, and pretty soon the whole family is in on Sydney's plan to help herself and Cole: a marriage of convenience.

I admit that I was a little skeptical about a modern marriage of convenience. Sure, it works in historicals, but nowadays? Please. The agreement isn't seemless, meaning I'm still not exactly sure an agreement would have happened quite as fast as it did on the page, but Ms. Dunlop's writing, pacing and fantastic characters convinced me to keep reading and I'm glad I did.

A quick, fun read and well worth the time.