Cute and warm story about the life of women in the Wild West.

Annie Paxton had never wanted to come to Clearwater and became a cook there. She had her dreams about the lovely house with trims and flowers in the city, about the living in harmony there with her two brothers. But it was exactly her brothers who had decided her future - they would become the Pony Express riders and she would go with them. A couple of years at last, for a good money. And then - the house with the trims and flowers.

But West can get under your skin. And Annie comes to love her cooking job, the harsh yet beautiful prairie...and her bear of a boss might be a good person, after all.

This is a very sweet, lovely story. While it is very cute, the story can go deep here and offer a portion of a food for thought here and there (mainly in the form of Annie´s bad-tempered yet caring readhed of a brother, Frank).

While I think that the life on a prairie must be quite harsher than the almost idyllic life described here in the book - the sweetness here will get you. After all, the thinking of the good things is very good for the soul, mainly for the soul tired from the hardships of the everyday life. I have enjoyed my ride with the guys - and the gal.