Holding the Fort

by

Regina Jennings

(Fort Reno Series; Book One)

When Louisa Bell loses her job as a dance-hall singer, she is forced to search out other employment and check on her brother, Bradley, in the cavalry at the same time. Bradley has run into trouble with the commander of Fort Reno, Major Adams and Louisa believes she can help right the situation. Major Daniel Adams has his hands full at Fort Reno. He not only has the responsibility of his troops but also his two adolescent daughters. Daniel is a widower and must find a governess to guide his girls or his mother-in-law is threatening to take them from him.When Louisa finds herself mistaken for the missing governess, she accepts the role and attempts to do her best acting job ever! Initially Major Adams is taken back by her unorthodox manner of teaching but as time goes by; he becomes enthralled with her beauty and comes to respect her hard work and obvious success with his daughters. But the Major does have questions at to the mysterious relationship between his governess and the low life recruit, Bradley.  Louisa has questions as to how long before the Major finds out who she really is and how it will affect not only her brother but the young girls she has come to love and, of course, her other love, the Major.  Intertwined in the story are humorous situations and romance all surrounding the history of Fort Reno.  This is the first book in the Fort Reno Series.