Head in the Clouds

This was a super good book!  Author Karen Witemeyer definitely knows how to write!  And this is only her second book!  I'm expecting many good reads to come from her in the future.  Like I mentioned I had read A Tailor-Made Bride before and have been wanting to read Head in the Clouds for awhile.  You know how some books you look at the cover and instantly want to read it? Well this is how this book was for me.  I know you aren't supposed to judge a book by it's cover but in this case I did  : ) How can you not want to pick it up and read it when on the cover there is a picture of a young woman reading a book while walking on a porch.  Then you flip the book over to read it's description on the back and it shows the girl falling off the steps with her legs flipped up in the air and the book flying!  You have to know what happens! 

I loved everything about this book and I think I may have finished it in record time! In Head in the Clouds Adelaide Proctor is a romantic.  She has a suitor by the name of Henry Belcher who visits her every time he's in town. Which isn't very often.  But she's convinced that he's the one for her so she quits her job as a school teacher and follows him to Fort Worth Texas.  There she not only finds him but also an unpleasant surprise that has her looking for a job to help her save herself from further humiliation.  She takes a job as governess to Isabella, a little mute girl whose father, Gideon Wescott is a sheep herder.  Adelaide finds herself falling in love with not only Isabella but also Isabella's father.  But Adelaide is being more carefully about her romance life this time around and has some trouble believing that things can actually work out for the better.

In the meantime Isabella's Uncle, Viscount Reginald Petchey, will do anything he has to get his hands on Isabella and her fortune.  Even if that means killing, again.  Dum, Dum, Dum!  (Sorry that's my excuse for dramatic music : )  

This book was super entertaining to  read, if you haven't figured that out already from reading this post.  I don't know what else to say except go rent it, borrow it, buy it anything you can to get your hands on a copy of it. Okay, I'm being a little dramatic I know but I did like it and I hope you will too.