Pinna Sequoia Bride
(2026)(Book 14 in the National Park Brides series)
A novel by Linda Carroll-Bradd
Training and caring for horses at her father’s side fills Pinna Walton’s summer at Sequoia National Park. But she yearns to be crafting her healing evergreen teas and syrups and fragrant soaps to help others in her small town in the valley. When she’s assigned a greenhorn to help her in the barn, she learns that city boys know nothing about anything useful in the California mountain wilderness. And he has to live down mocking her for wearing trousers.
Orphaned young and in a Chicago gang by age twelve, Dixon Lombard counted himself saved when he attempted to steal the wallet of a well-dressed man and was caught. That man recognized skills in this street-wise youth and schooled him in additional ones. Years later, Dixon is disillusioned with being a Pinkerton detective and the types of jobs he’s assigned. Being shot on an undercover sidelines him, and he is invited to spend the summer with his uncle at a national park. He figures he’ll get a lot of reading done. But Uncle Sprague expects him to earn his keep and assigns him to assist with chores in the barn.
Coming from totally different worlds, Pinna and Dixon struggle to communicate but she grudgingly teaches her boss’s nephew the essentials. On a foraging expedition, they run into some men living in a cave. Dixon recognizes a bank robbery gang from wanted posters of a five-year old crime. To keep Pinna safe, Dixon employs all his detective skills. Can he count on the independent woman to go along with his ruse? Will his skills be enough to save them?
This kisses-only historical romance features hidden identity, fish out of water, and opposite attract tropes.
Genre: Inspirational
Orphaned young and in a Chicago gang by age twelve, Dixon Lombard counted himself saved when he attempted to steal the wallet of a well-dressed man and was caught. That man recognized skills in this street-wise youth and schooled him in additional ones. Years later, Dixon is disillusioned with being a Pinkerton detective and the types of jobs he’s assigned. Being shot on an undercover sidelines him, and he is invited to spend the summer with his uncle at a national park. He figures he’ll get a lot of reading done. But Uncle Sprague expects him to earn his keep and assigns him to assist with chores in the barn.
Coming from totally different worlds, Pinna and Dixon struggle to communicate but she grudgingly teaches her boss’s nephew the essentials. On a foraging expedition, they run into some men living in a cave. Dixon recognizes a bank robbery gang from wanted posters of a five-year old crime. To keep Pinna safe, Dixon employs all his detective skills. Can he count on the independent woman to go along with his ruse? Will his skills be enough to save them?
This kisses-only historical romance features hidden identity, fish out of water, and opposite attract tropes.
Genre: Inspirational