GRR Reviews Montana Trails: A Cutter's Creek Prequel by Kari Trumbo

Montana Trails is really an adventure novella with a bit of romance.

Florence was fired from her teaching job in Missouri for merely applying for a position out West in Oregon (she hadn't even decided to go). Now left with no choice, she had to find a wagon train to go West... and met Alton Cutter. // Alton had gone west several times. But this time, he's not coming back, but settle with her brother in Montana territory. He did not need a schoolmarm to 'tag along', esp. when she can't even pay her own way, and it'll take MONTHS to reach Montana, muchless Oregon. But on the trip, they slowly fell for each other... Can he convince her to stay and start a town in Montana with him, rather than go onto Oregon?

Short (not even 100 pages), the story builds up nicely. There's complication about Alton's niece marrying a no-good man and seems to have gone delusional and refuse to follow good advice. The actual romance was a bit of enemies to lovers, but not that well explained other than he took pity on her. It's once they got on the way that things actually got going.

Category: Historical Western

Overall Rating: 3/5

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