‘City Girl’ by Lori Wick is a Christian historical
romance that takes place in Texas. It is the third book in the Yellow Rose
Trilogy about the three Rawlings brothers.
Charles Rawlings Jr., Cash to family and friends, is the
oldest of the three Rawlings brothers. Their parents, Charles Rawlings Sr. and
Virginia, moved the family from St. Louis, Missouri to Kinkade, Texas when the
boys were small. Charles bough a ranch and made the Rawlings Cattle Company
well known. When Charles decided to retire a few years ago and move with his
wife back to St. Louis, he handed over ownership and the running of the ranch
to Cash.
The book starts out with all of the family gathered in the
Rawlings house in St. Louis for Dakota (the middle brother) and Darvi’s
wedding. Now that Slater is married and Dakota is about to marry, they think
that it’s time for Cash to marry.
Elieen Reagan Sullivan is an orphan from New York City,
who prefers to be called Reagan. (The name is pronounced like Megan only with
an ‘r’ instead of an ‘m’.) Her mother left when she was nine years and her
father drank himself to death three years later. Since then she has closed her
heart to marriage. Surprisingly enough she’s very friendly with most people and
a very straight forward kind of girl, instead of being bitter. Reagan longed
for new adventures and wide open spaces, so she applied for a job in Texas.
Cash first meets Reagan in an unusual way. Unlike Slater
who met his future wife with her pointing a gun at him, Cash meet Reagan when
she throws dirty dish water out the back door and it soaks him! It seems that
none of the Rawlings brides meet their future husband in a more traditional
way!
Unlike the other books in this series, while Cash is a
Christian, Reagan is not. Part of the book is spent while she searches for the
truth about God. All she knew is what some Christians in New York had told her.
That she and others were sinners and that she needed God. They never implied
that they were sinners too, or that God was a God of love. All she knew was
that they wanted to cram their ‘religion’ down her throat. She’s not sure what
to make of Cash and the other Christians she meets in Kinkade.
This is a good story, although I liked the first two
better. This had romance, but it doesn’t have any of the action that the other
books had.
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