GRR Reviews Moon Over Montana (McCutcheon Family) by Caroline Fyffe

Moon Over Montana is a historical Western romance / adventure set in the author's Y-knot universe in Montana. The author has always managed to pack quite a few disparate subplots as well as the main plot and managed to wrap up enough of it to have satisfying ending, but still left plenty of things to write about in future volumes, and this is no exception. I understand this is her style, but there were sure a lot of characters to track.

It is 1886 in the town of Y Knot in Montana. Charity McCutcheon is finally about to marry Brandon Crawford, sheriff of Y Knot, after being rescued (see previous novel) but when a Cheyenne young woman Running Fox showed up half dead, intending to see her half brother, Luke McCutcheon, that ancient family secrets were forced into the light. When Brandon got an offer to be a US Marshall in Kansas City, MI and serve alongside the man who rescued him from bandits that killed his parents, it seems the marriage may not occur after all. When two men found dead outside of town, apparently shot... Running Fox was blamed, even as another Indian Brave arrived in town... Will Charity and Brandon ever get married?

The tales all interlock and run parallel to each other, but they are all complications to the MAIN plot... Charity and Brandon's relationship. While this is a largest cast and relatively long book, everything was wrapped up neatly at the end and serves as a good plotting example to writers on how to layer in the complications. The references back to the earlier volumes are also quite good. All in all a satisfying read.

Category: Historical Western

Primary Plot: Sheriff was about to marry his love, but various things got in the way of their wedding plans...

Tropes: law enforcement, marriage, family secrets, conspiracy

Overall Rating:  4/5