title: Promise Me Texas (A Whispering Mountain Novel)
author:  Jodi Thomas 
description: Starred Review. Bestseller Thomas strikes gold again with her seventh Whispering Mountain historical (after Wild Texas Rose), set in 1879 Texas. When 24-year-old Beth McMurray sneaks onto a train to surprise her fianc, former Senator Lamont LaCroix, she's shocked to overhear him bragging about his plans for her and her money. Then robbers board the train and it goes off the rails. Just before the crash, one of the robbers grabs Beth and jumps off the train, taking the fall to protect her. He's hurt, but she stays with him, claiming that he's her husband. The sheriff and the doctor believe that Beth is now Mrs. Andrew McLaughlin, but LaCroix does not. Meanwhile, widower Andrew reveals his hidden depths: when he's not robbing trains, he longs to be an author. By the time Beth drives a wagon out of town, she has collected a pretend husband, two little boys, an ill teen cowboy, and a pregnant young woman, and the adventure has just begun. Complex plotting, superb character development, and touching romantic scenes make this a winner. Agent: Gail Fortune, Talbot Fortune Agency. (Nov.)
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  Whispering Flame
  Whispering Mountain Book One
  Carrie Jo Thomas
   
   
  This book is a work of fiction.
  Names, characters, and places
  are products of the author’s imagination,
  and any resemblance to actual events or places or
  persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
   
  Copyright © 2020 by Carrie Jo Thomas
  AKA Susan Quinland
   
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof
  may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever
  without the express written permission of the author
  except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
   
   
  Printed in the United States of America
   
  First Printing 2020
   
   
   
  Cover and Interior Design: Susan Quinland
  Cover Derivative Photos:
  Dreamstime, Jason Baca and Tomasz Kobiela
   
  
   
   
   
  To my muse for this series, Bri.
  Without you, the world of
  Whispering Mountain
  never would have come to be.
   
  And to Mom.
  Finally, something I’ve written
  that you can read!
  No scary stuff, I promise!
  (Well, only a little.)
  
  Another Horrid, Stressful Monda