Jenny and the six-year-old Graciela are chalk and cheese - or maybe burlap and satin. Jenny mightn't look like much, she mightn't have much, but she takes her honor seriously, and any promise she gives is solid gold. When the story opens, she's been sentenced to death, but a desperate mother takes Jenny Jones' place in front of a firing squad in exchange for Jenny's promise to see her daughter safely to California. Jenny Jones is a rough, tough, fiercely independent Annie Oakley kind of western gal. I bought it on line, read it and loved it. Some time back, on the wenches private loop, Jo Beverley mentioned Maggie Osborne's The Promise of Jenny Jones and out of curiosity I went looking for it. I came to romance novels later in life, and many of the US romances simply weren't available here in Australia, so I know I've missed out on some that are regarded by many romance readers as "classics of romance." Not rediscovering - discovering them for the first time. Recently I've been discovering some of the older style historical romances.
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