Laura and the Railroad Baron: Montana Women Book 4

Montana Women #4

by Nancy Pirri

Laura Elizabeth Woodbury, heir to a Montana cattle ranch, has just lost her father. A year ago, he bestowed upon her the nickname, “princess Sapphire” when he discovered sapphires in a mine where, sixteen years earlier, he’d found gold. The independent Laura is astonished to learn her father has hired a fancily-dressed stranger to assist her in finding a suitable husband, and to help run the ranch.


Matt Black is the right hand man of a Minnesota railroad baron who’d been a friend of Laura’s father. Matt’s been hired to head up a team of railroad workers replacing damaged railroad tracks across Montana and to find a decent man to marry Laura. Matt is completely unprepared for the headstrong, willful blond and soon finds himself in love with her. Laura feels the same way about Matt—until she learns his secret that will change her life completely.

82 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 12, 2018

Reviews

[Heidi J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Montana in the late 1880s, from the modern perspective, represents an intriguing mix of wilderness and formality, and this is what Pirri captures in her Montana Women series. On the one hand, the women are stronger and more independent because they live on the frontier, but there is also a courtliness to the manners between men and women that belongs to a bygone age.

This is a fun, short romance about Laura, a woman struggling to open her heart because of the guilt and grief she’s still holding onto from her past, and Matt, a railroad baron with a young son, who unexpectedly finds himself put in the position of Laura’s guardian when her father dies. Wealthy, headstrong, and used to getting her way, Laura isn’t going to make it easy for him, and Matt decides the best course of action is to marry her off as quickly as possible….