Adult Review – Rocky Mountain Journey – historical fiction
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About the Book
Book: Rocky Mountain Journey (Sisters of the Rockies: Book 3)
Author: Misty M. Beller
Genre: Christian Historical Romance
Release date: June 18, 2024
Masquerading as a man, Faith Collins embarks on a perilous journey through the untamed wilderness of the Rocky Mountains in search of the Peigan Blackfoot woman who once saved her father’s life. She joins a group of trappers who may be able to lead her to the place the woman is hiding, but keeping Faith’s identity a secret proves more difficult than she imagined.
Grant Allen is searching for his younger brother, who was separated from him when their parents died many years ago. After receiving word that his brother went west to the Rockies, he unites with a group of trappers, hoping they can lead him to his brother’s location. Soon Grant realizes there’s a woman hiding among the men, and he’s determined to find out who she is, what she’s hiding, and how he can keep her safe in this country of wild animals and even wilder men.
In this rousing conclusion to her Sisters of the Rockies series, Misty M. Beller embarks on an adventurous journey where loyalty, love, and sacrifice intertwine amid the unforgiving frontier.
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My Adult Review
Beller, Misty M. Rocky Mountain Journey. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2024.
Sisters of the Rockies, book 3
Rocky Mountain Journey is the third book in Misty M. Beller’s Sisters of the Rockies series. While the other sisters are included in the story, this book focuses on the youngest sister, Faith Collins.
The girls (ladies) went west after their father died in the hopes of finding Steps Right, the Native American woman who had saved their father’s life many years ago. In books one and two they search quite diligently while setting up their ranch. Two of the sisters marry in the first two books. Both of the married sisters are pregnant and the oldest sister is focused on helping them as well as working on the ranch. Faith feels like the family has forgotten their promise to their father to find Steps Right. When some friends are headed out to evangelize some of the neighboring villages, Faith tags along until the opportunity arises to set off “on her own” to look for Steps Right. Her journey is filled with new experiences, danger, and romance. Beller has done a great job of building anticipation and conflict. The story moves along at a pretty good pace.
I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
While Rocky Mountain Journey is an adult historical fiction novel, it could find a place in a K-12 Christian school library. It is appropriate for eighth grade and up.
I received a complimentary copy of Rocky Mountain Journey. This is my honest review.
About the Author – Misty M. Beller
Misty M. Beller is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic mountain stories, set on the 1800s frontier and woven with the truth of God’s love.
Raised on a farm and surrounded by family, Misty developed her love for horses, history, and adventure. These days, her husband and children provide fresh adventure every day, keeping her both grounded and crazy.
Misty’s passion is to create inspiring Christian fiction infused with the grandeur of the mountains, writing historical romance that displays God’s abundant love through the twists and turns in the lives of her characters.
Sharing her stories with readers is a dream come true for Misty. She writes from her country home in South Carolina and escapes to the mountains any chance she gets.
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A HEROINE DISGUISED AS A MAN
I love a heroine in disguise! It’s one of my favorite tropes, but I don’t often get to write stories with that plot. It adds so many fun and funny moments to the storyline.
In Rocky Mountain Journey our heroine goes undercover as a “man” to travel with a group of trappers so she can reach her destination safely. Numbers meant a better chance of survival back in those days. I love that Grant, our hero, was the only man in the trapper group who looked close enough at the young “man” riding with them to realize things weren’t what they seemed at first glance.
One challenge that definitely arises in a story where the heroine is pretending to be a man is the development of the romance between her and the hero. In this case, Faith was pretending to be her (fictitious) brother Frank. Grant had met Faith in an earlier chapter before she took on the disguise, and he immediately noticed the resemblance between “Frank” and the woman whose memory still lingered with him, even days later. Every time he looks at “Frank” while they’re traveling with the trappers, he recalls the memory of Faith by the waterfall…and the attraction to that woman grows a little more every time. What a shocking surprise when he discovered she’s riding just ahead of him on the trail the entire time!
I pray you love Faith’s stint “in disguise” in Rocky Mountain Journey! J
Blessings!
Misty
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So glad you enjoyed the book and hope your readers do, too! Thanks for sharing with everyone! Misty
The book seems like it would be a good read.
Marion
This sounds like a good story!
This looks like a great read. Thanks for sharing and hosting this tour.
I really need to give this author’s books a try soon
This sounds like a book that I’ll want to read in one sitting.
Thank you for sharing your review! 🙂