Gingham Mountain

One book that I just finished reading is Gingham Mountain, by Mary Connealy. It is the third book in the Lassoed in Texas series. Books one and two are: Petticoat Ranch and Calico Canyon. Here is the back cover blurb for Gingham Mountain, and I'll tell you some of my favorite part in the book. But not all of it. All I'm going to say is that it is very funny.


A young woman's need to protect.
A cowboy's need to provide.
A galloping ride headed for a love-hate relationship.

When Hannah Cartwright meets Grant, a disreputable-looking cowboy, she's determined to keep him from exploiting two more orphans. When she gets the job as schoolmarm, she resolves to keep Grant's adopted children in school to minimize their time spent in hard labor on his ranch. Will she succeed in her plans or lose her heart-- and the children--to a man she despises?
Grant already has a Texas ranch full of orphans he's rescued, but still he's determined to take on the two brought in by the orphan train. Can he wrangle his growing brood while resisting his attraction to the meddlesome Hannah and keeping clear of Prudence, a designing dressmaker?
When a couple of con artists discover oil on Grant's land, they'll go to any length to steal his ranch, including forcing him into marriage. Will their plans succeed before the secret of oil spills out?

And here is the part that I love best...

Libby wiggled her finger back and forth and tickled him. With a little laugh he jerked away, surprised to find out that he was ticklish. She smiled up at him and reached her twitching finger toward him again.
Grant jumped back and glanced up to see all of his kids with their eyes focused straight at him.
"You're ticklish." Benny said.
"Pa's ticklish." Sadie's dark eyes almost caught fire as she came toward him, her fingers raised in front of her, wriggling around like ten worms.

Now you have to read the book so that little voice will quit nagging you to find out what happens next. ;) Gingham Mountain is a wonderful book, and I laughed quite often as I read through it.