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Holding the Fort
Christian fiction
Holding the Fort
Book 1 of the Fort Reno series
345 pages · First published 2017
Louisa Bell loses her job as a dance-hall singer and takes a position as governess at Fort Reno despite having almost no qualifications for respectable childcare. Major Daniel Adams needs help with his unruly daughters and has little idea that their new governess’s background is anything but conventional. Fort life, military responsibilities, and Louisa’s improvisations turn the deception into a relationship neither expected. Regina Jennings opens the Fort Reno series with Christian historical romance, frontier humor, and a heroine trying to become respectable without losing the resilience that kept her alive before respectability was an option.
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Poverty and saloon/dance-hall background; deception/false identity; military discipline and mild physical mishaps; historical prejudice toward performers; Christian conversion themes; sweet romantic content.
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