The
Courtship of Utopia Miner
by
Linda Gilman
THE
COURTSHIP OF UTOPIA MINER by Linda Gilman is a humorous, sexy,
playful, and slightly suspenseful story about chasing your dreams,
falling in love, and taking risks to find true happiness. What
happens when a spunky young woman in a gold rush town wants to learn
how to be a saloon girl? You teach her how to kiss and hope to God
one of her three fathers doesn’t kill you for it!
Title:
The Courtship of Utopia Miner
Author:
Linda Gilman
Series:
Gold Rush
Genre:
Historical Romance
Release
Date:
November 9th
2015
Publisher:
Indie
Published
Print
Length:
289 pages
Format:
Paperback and Digital
Print
ISBN:
9781517538941
Digital
ISBN:
1517538947
Synopsis:
Utopia
Miner is tired of hunting gold and caring for her three adopted
fathers. Living in a Rocky Mountain mining camp is holding up her
dream of becoming a saloon girl. If only she could learn the
essential skills of singing, dancing and kissing, she’d be on her
way to a glamorous life. When Utopia discovers she’s the prize in
her three fathers’ marrying scheme, she sees benefits in going
along with the courting contest. She now has a kissing teacher. And
wow, what a teacher. One starter kiss from Lance and her body’s
sweating in places it never had before.
Lancelot
Jones wants to turn in his life-risking marshal’s badge for a much
safer job as a reporter, but the newspaper wants articles as proof of
his qualifications. When his editor sends him to a mining camp to get
the scoop on a courtship contest, Lance discovers the privilege of
covering the story hinges upon chaperoning the bride-to-be. He soon
finds himself ensconced in Utopia’s innocent charms and demanding
saloon girl lessons. In short order, chaperoning the bride-to-be
becomes risky business.
Excerpt
Utopia
turned the morality of keeping all the men's gifts every way she
could in her mind. In the end, her heart could find no sin in it. The
sin would be in discouraging such a lucrative collection of goods. To
her reasoning, shirking gifts would be so, so wrong. If these men
were crazy enough to bring her presents, she'd be the crazy one if
she refused them.
Besides,
some of the gifts might be things she needs for her dancehall job.
But
sooner or later, she'd have to find a way to get out of picking a
husband. She'd put off the choosing as long as possible. This wasn’t
the right time for worrying about that.
For
the rest of the day, Utopia made six more trips up the mountain with
nary a one of these suitors giving her things that could be
classified good saloon gifts.
The
liveryman, Enos Christman, gave her a horseshoe. Said he’d be the
luckiest man in the Rockies if she’d marry him. The riverboat
gambler, John Powell, did a few fancy card tricks then gave her the
deck as a gift. Cards might be something to use when she was working
in a saloon. But, for now, she wanted better gifts.
Then
there was Reverend Pardee. That man gave her nothing but an offer to
perform the wedding service for a nominal fee and the wedding would
be free if he was the one she decided to marry.
Something
had to be done to sort the good gift givers from the waste-of-time,
gift givers.
Utopia
spotted Lance seated on a keg in the shade beside the whiskey barn.
He was eating on an apple as she drew near. There was a disheveled
look about him. His tan shirt was all grass stained and tattered. Not
that she cared to count but there were upwards of twenty or more
mosquito bites dotting his face. He started to get to his feet.
"No.
Keep your seat. By the looks of your clothes, you could use the
rest."
"I
have been rather busy today.”
"Looks
like you were at it quite hard, whatever it was."
He
tossed his apple core to the weeds. "Is there something I can do
for you?"
"As
a matter of fact there is. I take it you decide whose turn it is to
walk me up that hill."
"Unfortunately,
yes. Is something wrong with how things have been going?"
"Well,
yes. There is." Utopia held up a horseshoe. "My horse is
already shoed with four of these. I don’t need more.” She tossed
the shoe on the ground. "You can save us both a heap of
aggravation, if you weed out the fellas that don’t have decent
gifts."
Lance
shot to his feet. "What?"
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About
Linda Gilman:
Linda Gilman is known for
writing humorous western romance novels. Her stories are centered on
independent, strong-willed women, and courageous heroes who always
protect the innocent without violating their personal code of
conduct. It’s the cowboy west readers are so enamored with and a
twist of zany plot. From first page to last, her books are loaded
with pain-in-your-side laughable moments.
She has a deep love of the
American gold rush era and often uses this as an excuse to do book
research and travel to ghost towns in the western states.
Born into a city girl life,
her parents raised her in St. Louis County. However, Linda has always
felt her country girl roots calling her to move west young woman. She
currently lives in rural Missouri with her hubby and the oldest of
her three sons.
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