In the latest addition to the "Coming to America" series, Mary Malone flees an apparent murder in New York in 1898. On the train going west, she meets an Idahoan saloon owner who takes Mary under her wing and gives her a job as a bookkeeper. A mining accident, kidnapping, explosion and, finally, love revealed bring this story to the satisfying conclusion that true love can overcome anything from the past.
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In the latest addition to the "Coming to America" series, Mary Malone flees an apparent murder in New York in 1898. On the train going west, she meets an Idahoan saloon owner who takes Mary under her wing and gives her a job as a bookkeeper. A mining accident, kidnapping, explosion and, finally, love revealed bring this story to the satisfying conclusion that true love can overcome anything from the past.
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This is the third book in the Coming to America series. This tells the story of Mary Malone, an Irish immigrant who arrives in New York, pregnant, and hoping to be united with the baby's father. He has died and she works as a domestic to provide for her young son. When her employer attacks her and she defends herself, she thinks she has killed him, and she flees to Idaho and becomes a bookkeeper in a saloon. She thought she was running from the law, and she ran right into the arms of the Sherriff, Carson Barclay.
She fights against her growing feelings for him because she knows if her secret comes out, it will ruin his reputation, land her in jail, and her son in an orphanage.
I found Mary to be a very likeable character, with her Irish sayings, her stubbornness and temper. Carson eventually wears her down. Her former employer tracks her down and threatens her. There are a few sub-plots and lessons about forgiveness and judging others.