Review ~ Loving the Mysterious Texan: A Texas Lawman Romantic Suspense: Garrison's Law Book 5 by Mary Connealy

Kindle Edition, 216 pages

Published: January 14th 2019

Garrison's Law enters the Gothic Romance Genre. 
Amnesia, murder, treasure and ghosts.
A woman wakes up next to a dead man with no idea how she got there, who he is.....who SHE is. 

Grey Devereau drags a terrified woman out of his cousin's bed...his very dead cousin. It looks for all the world like she killed him. But then everyone who knows Victor wants to kill him eventually. Grey included. 

Lanny Cole, the young woman hired to research the history of the Devereau family, can't remember a thing. 

Grey steps in with an alibi and Lanny realizes that if Grey is her alibi, then she's his. She decides to trust him, but then she's suffered a head injury. So she's probably making one stupid decision after another. 

And then someone else dies. And a hurricane cuts them all off from help. And then someone else dies.... 

And the rumors of ghosts and treasure can't be true. Sure Grey saw the ghost, in fact, he's pretty sure the ghost saved his life as a child. But he was upset at the time and he doesn't believe in ghosts. 

Chills and thrills abound in an old island home built by a loathsome pirate. He's not a Garrison, but when he gets in trouble, he turns to his old friend Case Garrison for help. 

Garrison's Law just got spooky. 

About Mary Connealy

Mary Connealy writes romantic comedy with cowboys. She is independently publishing a contemporary romantic suspense series called Garrison's Law, book one is Loving the Texas Lawman. Her new historical series, High Sierra Sweethearts begins with The Accidental Guardian. She is a two-time Carol Award winner and has been a finalist for the Rita and Christy Awards. She's a lifelong Nebraskan and lives with her very own romantic cowboy hero. She's got four grown daughters and four spectacular grandchildren.
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Review

4 stars

I genuinely enjoyed this modern day Gothic. It’s the fifth book in the Garrison’s Law series and the first one I’ve read. There is no trouble keeping up with characters as only one Garrison is in the book. So never fear. If you haven’t read the others you won’t be lost; unless you find yourself with amnesia, in a hidden tunnel, in inky blackness.

Connealy’s talent transcended any expectations I had when I started this book. Well known for her historical cowboy romances with a heavy dose of humor (which I am quite fond of), 

Loving the Mysterious Texan is dark and creepy. I was spellbound.

There are two drawbacks for me. The first is the speed in which the main characters ‘fall in love’. It’s pretty much immediate. You’ll see why it’s kind of far-fetched when/if you read it. Or you can read the comments of another reviewer on Goodreads who explains it all quite well. The second drawback is at the end of the story (even though this isn’t labeled a Christian book both characters have faith in God as in classic Bible believing Christians), the idea of ghosts being real is perpetrated. I wasn’t expecting that. If neither of those things are a deterrent, you might like this book as much I did or maybe even more.

I borrowed it through KU and didn’t have to leave a review but I appreciate the time and effort an author puts into writing a book. Even though I can’t give it 5 stars, I do wholeheartedly give it 4.