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When Sage Cane arrives in the new mining town of Fairplay Creek in the Rocky Mountains, she is expecting to take over the hotel her maiden aunt left her in a will. She’s even bringing along a young girl she met in Denver to help her out. But then, things never go as expected. Starting with the handsome Sheriff who has liquor on his breath and a skeptical attitude.
Bridger Norwood isn’t buying the innocent act. Wild Mountain Honey is no hotel and pretty Sage Cane must know that. But he whistles a different tune when the flabbergasted Miss Cane vows to close Wild Mountain Honey, claiming she’s not a madam. Now Bridger finds himself in the odd position of begging her to keep it open, and he’ll use whatever means possible. He tells himself that it’s because a mining town without a brothel wouldn’t have a safety valve to diffuse the men’s tempers and not that he’s taken with the strong-willed Miss Cane. He’s already lost the woman he loved and now has a child he’s not fit to take care of.
After meeting her employees, however, Sage begins to see possibilities for something more and, having no other source of income to live by, she takes up the challenge of running a decent brothel (though not participating)—and then turns it and Fairplay Creek into something better than anyone could ever imagine, including Bridger Norwood.
While Sage and Bridger set off enough sparks to keep this romance aflame, it is the stories of the women of Wild Mountain Honey and Fairplay Creek that draw the reader in. Each has a need, a dream, a hope and Sage is determined to help everyone get what they want. As in life, things don’t always work out, but Sage keeps on trying.
Ms. Hubbard unfolds this story in delicious layers filled with lots of information about life in the Old West, especially about a woman’s lot in life. The details she includes are sure to please western history buffs. With great descriptions and enjoyable characters this book will take readers on a wonderful trip back in time, when women were considered the fairer sex, but not always treated fairly. Ms. Hubbard gives us a heroine determined to change that.
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