TRAIN FROM MARIETTA

Author: Dorothy Garlock ISBN: 0446577901 3/2006 HISTORICAL Publisher: WARNER
Time Period: Texas 1933

Katherine Tyler's cross-country train trip is shockingly derailed when she's kidnapped and taken somewhere in the bend of south Texas. Her father calls on the Texas Rangers, but only a cowboy named Tate Castle knows the territory well enough to find Katherine. Even after Tate frees her, their escape is fraught with hazards: wolves and rattlesnakes, hunger and thirst. And the kidnappers are not easily eluded. They have much more at stake than a mere ransom payment, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their nefarious goal. With the kidnappers closing in, Tate and Katherine must risk everything in order to survive ... and to secure a future together, one Katherine could never have imagined back on the train from Marietta.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

I love a book that has a strong hero—and a cowboy, no less! In Dorothy Garlock's TRAIN FROM MARIETTA, she gives us a super alpha male along with one of the strongest gun shootin' heroines that I've ever known. Readers of westerns and fans of Dorothy Garlock won't be disappointed with her new book!

Katherine Tyler is on her way to California to continue her career as a nurse. What she doesn't know is that there is a diabolical plot to kidnap her for a large ransom from her father. Luckily for her, Tate Castle (hunky cowboy extraordinaire) comes to her rescue. Now they're both on the run from the kidnappers, and one kidnapper, Hayden, has it in for Tate. Just when you think they're safe from the bad guys, Hayden captures Katherine and a very brutal fight between he and Tate breaks out. With Tate now injured, the only one they can rely on is Luke, an Indian and Tate's friend, to get them into town.

With Katherine fairly safe, she telephones her father to tell him all that has happened to her. Back in New York City, where her father lives, there's a twist to the story!! I guess you'll just have to read TRAIN FROM MARIETTA to find out what it is *G*.

Not only did TRAIN FROM MARIETTA have a great hero and heroine, but the secondary characters were well written, too. There are the really bad guys, the really good guys, and one of my favorites—Luke (I dubbed him the comic relief of the story).

I would recommend reading Dorothy Garlock's TRAIN FROM MARIETTA. It's a great story of adventure and love in early 1930's Texas!

Julie Kornhausl