Love Finds You in Sundance, Wyoming is Miralee Ferrell‘s fourth book in the Love Finds You series, which features real towns with romantic or intriguing names across the USA. Each novel is well-researched, giving a strong sense of place, though most of the characters in the novel are fictional. Ferrell does mention the infamous Sundance Kid, who took his name from Sundance, WY, but he doesn’t really appear in the story.
Angel Ramirez has been raised in an outlaw band by her uncle Jose after her parents’ death. However, one of the outlaws has his eye on her. To protect her, Jose lets her ride on a cattle drive and, when the rustlers are overtaken by Texas Rangers, urges her to escape while the rustlers are busy defending themselves. For the next three years, Angel disguises herself as a man and makes a living for herself by tracking varmints across Texas and Wyoming.
When Angel arrives on Travis Morgan’s ranch, in response to his request for a varmint hunter to deal with a wolf problem, she’s tired of hiding. However, revealing that she’s a woman compromises her job, as Travis insists he won’t have a woman hunting varmints. It’s up to Angel to prove herself before Travis finds someone else to hunt his wolves… but when Angel falls in love with Travis and when the outlaw from her past comes calling, suddenly there is more at stake than just Angel’s job.
After the high suspense in Sigmund Brouwer’s novel Broken Angel and the deep character insight in Jodi Picoult’s novel Handle with Care, I found it a bit hard to get into Love Finds You in Sundance, Wyoming. In the opening chapters, I found the premises of the novel—woman dressing as a man and woman falling in love with rancher she works for—rather cliched. The novel felt predictable, right down to the happily-ever-after ending that included three weddings.
Once I stopped comparing Angel’s story to other books I was reading, I found myself enjoying the story. I don’t often read romances but once in a while, it’s good to slow down and just appreciate the things that draw a man and a woman together. One of my friends likes books like this simply because they are predictable and life isn’t. And so I found myself reading the last half of the book faster, wanting to find out that what I thought was coming really was coming—and encountering a few pleasant surprises along the way.
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