Willow by Carolyn Brown

This book could have been 5 star if I wasn't just a wee bit tired of books set on the trail west. Not the author 's fault. She did her job and did it well.

A quick blurb : Five sisters meet for the first time at their sorry father 's funeral. Having burned their bridges behind them when they left their various homes and having little money to start afresh they decide to join a wagon train of 100 mail order brides going west to California.

Willow is the youngest and smallest of the sisters but largest in the sass and spitfire department. Willow and one of the wagon train bosses (Rafael) butt heads from the very beginning. Sparks fly and both trouble and adventure follow. 


This book would be classified as an adventure / comedy / historical romance and is the first book in a series of five novels (each book focusing on a different sister).

It is clean with no cussing or violence.