Spinster’s Folly (The Owen Family Saga Book 3)

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Winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards for Western Fiction.

Marie Owen yearns for a loving husband, but Colorado Territory is long on rough characters and short on fitting suitors, so a future of spinsterhood seems more likely than wedded bliss. Her best friend says cowboy Bill Henry is a likely candidate, but Marie knows her class-conscious father would not allow such a pairing. When she challenges her father to find her a suitable husband before she becomes a spinster, he arranges a match with a neighbor’s son. Then Marie discovers Tom Morgan would be an unloving, abusive mate and his mother holds a grudge against the Owen family. Marie’s mounting despair at the prospect of being trapped in such a dismal marriage drives her into the arms of a sweet-talking predator, landing her in unimaginable dangers.

The harrowing experiences in early-day Colorado of 18-year-old spinster, Marie Owen, the result of her simple wish for a husband, held me spellbound from start to finish. I couldn’t put the book down. An incredible story, Spinster’s Folly is one of the best women’s novels of the west I’ve had the pleasure to read. Ever! ~Irene Bennett Brown, award-winning author

With a great sense of time and place, crackerjack dialogue and rich characters, Marsha Ward delivers Spinster’s Folly, a romance, Western and historical novel rolled into one—and one fun read. ~Johnny D. Boggs, six-time Spur Award-winning author