Press Release: No Place For A Lady





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CAN A SOUTHERN BELLE TAME
THE HEART OF A RUGGED COWBOY?


New Sweet Historical Romance Series from a Debut Novelist:
Readers will fall in love with the Colorado setting and
the spunky Southern belle who wants to claim it as her own.


For readers of Lori Wick and Kim Vogel Sawyer comes a new series that is sure to delight and sweep readers back in time to the days of when the West was won. Debut novelist Maggie Brendan weaves an adventurous plot and dynamic characters in No Place for a Lady, the first book in the highly anticipated Heart of the West series:

Crystal Clark arrives in Colorado’s Yampa Valley amid the splendor of a high country June in 1892. After the death of her father, Crystal is relieved to be leaving the troubles of her Georgia life behind to visit her aunt Kate’s cattle ranch. Despite being raised as a proper Southern belle, Crystal is determined to hold her own in this wild land—even if a certain handsome foreman doubts her abilities.

Just when she thinks she’s getting a handle on the constant male attention from the cowhands and the catty barbs from some of the local young women, tragedy strikes the ranch. Crystal will have to tap all of her resolve to save the ranch from a greedy neighboring landowner. Can she rise to the challenge? Or will she head back to Georgia defeated?

“You won’t want to set this book down until you reach the final resolution,” says a Romantic Times review of No Place for a Lady that gave the novel 4.5 stars. “It has multiple love stories layered beautifully and passionately. Book one in the Heart of the West series takes readers on a cattle drive through the mountainous countryside of Colorado and to places where feelings run deeper than valleys. It leaves you waiting and wanting book two.”

Book one in the Heart of the West series, No Place for a Lady (ISBN: 9780800733353, $13.99, January 2009) is full of adventure, romance, and the indomitable human spirit.

Maggie Brendan is a member of the American Christian Writers and the American Fiction Writers Association. No Place for a Lady is her first novel. Brendan lives in Marietta, Georgia.

Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, offers practical books that bring the Christian faith to everyday life. They publish resources from a variety of well-known brands and authors, including their partnership with MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) and Hungry Planet.

For more information, visit www.RevellBooks.com.


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Rave Reviews for No Place for a Lady
by Maggie Brendan



“You won’t want to set this book down until you reach the final resolution. It has multiple love stories layered beautifully and passionately. Book one in the Heart of the West series takes readers on a cattle drive through the mountainous countryside of Colorado and to places where feelings run deeper than valleys. It leaves you waiting and wanting book two.”
– 4.5 star Romantic Times review



“Grab your hat and hold on to the reins for an exciting ride!
A thrilling historical novel by a rising new author.”
– DiAnn Mills, author of When the Nile Runs Red, Beyond the Memories, Awaken My Heart and Lightning and Lace



“This gentle romance set among the rugged beauty of the Colorado foothills will warm readers’ hearts.”
– Kim Vogel Sawyer, bestselling author of My Heart Remembers and the Sommerfeld Trilogy