Bess's Reviews > Holding the Fort

This was my first full length novel by Regina Jennings and it came highly recommended by Hannah! Thanks, Hannah!!
Lola was a stage singer with her virtue in tack but her reputation is in shreds! Of course, how could any stage performer be any otherwise? After being canned for a younger singer, she decides to visit her brother at Fort Reno. She's heard of his wild ways landing him in trouble and as his older sister, it's her job to whip him into a respectable man!
Daniel was the major at the fort. After losing his wife, his two rowdy growing girls needed some help or else he will lose them to his mother-in-law. He turned to the Mennonites and asked for a straight-laced hardy, older widow woman for a governess. What he got was Lola!
This was such a fun read! Lola worked hard to stay ahead of the girls' learning by staying up reading the books the Mennonite woman, whose place she took, provided her.
Once Daniel learns of her connections with the wily private Bradley Willis and her past, he offers her redemption.
It is rare that I read a story where the hero is a believer and the woman hurt by those believers. But this was one such read. It was a nice change! Lola learns of the true love of G-d not the hypocritical stares and rejections she'd always received. And the girls (Caroline & Daisy) were irresistible and not really young enough to have a governess but Daniel needed to keep his girls close.
This was sweet and funny. I found myself having to stop to catch my breath I laughed so hard! Good qualities of a great book!