The Canary: A Marriage of Convenience Western Romance
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Sarah Ryan grew up in Texas digging up animal bones and potsherds, but she always dreamed of searching for the extraordinary dinosaur fossils in the American West. When a wealthy benefactress gives her the opportunity to join the team of esteemed paleontologist Dr. Allan Brenner, she eagerly accepts. But when she arrives in the wild and wooly town of Holbrook, Arizona Territory, ready to start digging, she’s faced with the very real obstacle of being a female in a world dominated by men.
Dr. Jack Brenner is looking for his father who disappeared into the Painted Desert two months ago. Mounting an expedition to find him, Jack is suddenly saddled with Sarah Ryan, a young paleontology student hired as an intern to his father. When Jack’s guide refuses to let Sarah accompany them into the wilderness without a chaperone—and a colleague threatens her—he finds himself in a pretend marriage to protect the determined woman whose passion for paleontology was something he once possessed. But he has bigger problems than his beautiful new wife—his father is pursuing a controversial theory about the origin of birds, and it’s attracted the attention of men who would rather destroy evidence than excavate it.
The Canary is a marriage-of-convenience romance with light steam set in the high-stakes world of paleontology at the end of the 19th century and can be read as a standalone. Sarah Ryan is the daughter of Logan and Claire from The Dove.
While the series has interconnecting characters, each novel can be read as a standalone
Book One: The Wren
Book Two: The Dove
Book Three: The Sparrow
Book Four: The Blackbird
Book Five: The Bluebird
Book Six: The Songbird (Novella)
Book Seven: Echo of the Plains (Short Story)
Book Eight: The Starling
Book Nine: The Canary
Book Ten: The Nighthawk
Book Eleven: The Swan
Book Twelve: The Falcon (Coming Soon)
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Perfect for fans of Diana Palmer, Linda Lael Miller, Carolyn Brown, Jodi Thomas, Rosanne Bittner, Lorraine Heath, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Peggy L. Henderson, Sylvia McDaniel, Cynthia Wright, Lily Graison, Cynthia Woolf, and Charlene Raddon
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