Much Ado About Miners
by Jacquie Rogers
Genre: Western Romance
The third novel in the Hearts of Owyhee western romance series!
Cupid’s bullet...
Hired gun Kade McKinnon interrupts a bank holdup and is shot by the teller, Iris Gardner, whose victims have a tendency to be the next groom in town. Will he be the groom this time?
Cupid’s bow...
Iris Gardner, a smart, independent bank clerk, fell in love with Kade when she was too young to know better. So when he walks back into her life and her bank, it's only fitting that she shoots him ... by accident, of course.
Cupid’s blindfold...
Kade doesn’t know Iris’s company is the one who hired him to escort a bullion shipment, and Iris doesn’t know Kade owns the security company, but they both know robbers are on their trail. Which is more likely to be stolen—the silver, or his heart?
I'm a former software designer, campaign manager, deli clerk, and cow milker, but always a bookworm. Reading is my passion—westerns, fantasies, historicals of any era, all with a splash of humor and a dash of romance.
While I'm a country girl by birth, I currently live in suburbia with my very patient husband where we’re humble servants of The Cat Annie. I don't think you can ever take the country out of a girl's heart, though, which is why my stories often take place in Idaho where I grew up. (Hearts of Owyhee series and some of my short stories, too.)
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Books by Jacquie Rogers
Hearts of Owyhee series (western historical romance)
#1: Much Ado About Madams
#2: Much Ado About Marshals
#3: Much Ado About Miners
#4: Much Ado About Mavericks
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- I was Owyhee County Fair queen. Not telling you what year.
- Coffee is the nectar of the gods. I have an espresso machine and make my own lattes. Yum.
- The cover for Much Ado About Mavericks is my nephew, Kyle Walker. He’ll also be on the cover of Hearts of Owyhee #5, Much Ado About Mustangs.
- My first heart’s desire was to be a baseball announcer on television.
- I majored in political science in college.
- Kindle is my friend—because we have no more room for print books.
- When I write, I light a scented candle, specifically pumpkin pie spice scent. Before Thanksgiving, I made my daughter go to the store and buy all the pumpkin pie spice candles they had (over a dozen).
- My dress code for writing consists of pajamas and fuzzy slippers.
- I was once a professional photographer and still prefer 35 mm over digital, but use digital exclusively now.
Much Ado About Miners
is the third book in the Hearts of Owyhee
series. I had no intention of writing
this story but readers, after they read Much
Ado About Marshals (http://amzn.com/B00RW84YRS)
kept asking for Daisy’s sister’s story.
That would be Iris Gardner. She fired the inciting bullet in that book,
then makes a brief appearance later when Daisy needed some sisterly help.
Obviously, Iris is quite a firecracker. She’s 24 years old and lives on her own—not
many women in the mid-1880s did that.
She also is a bank clerk and takes her job seriously. But what else about her? Financial acumen had to be part of her
character, and she had to have a secret.
As a suffragist, she’d definitely be involved with making money in a
man’s world.
But what about the hero?
In walks Kade McKinnon, handsome and bold, but with his own secrets,
too. Iris had a schoolgirl crush on him
that never left, and when she sees him again, those feelings she’d tucked away
came back with a vengeance.
Oh, wait—there’s Kade now!
Let’s see what he has to say.
Jacquie: What do
you remember about Iris?
Kade: She was a
little pill. When we lived in Virginia
City, Nevada, she was my sister’s best friend.
Vivvie and Iris got in all manner of trouble—and dragging me with them
since I tried to keep them safe. The
girls were four years younger. Iris was
a little blond-haired girl, the first to jump in the creek from a rope swing
and the one who always wanted to explore abandoned mines and other forbidden
spots.
Jacquie: Did you
love her then?
Kade: She was
just a kid. I never thought of her that
way. She’s sure not a kid now,
though. Whoo-wee! All woman, that one. And dangerous.
Jacquie:
Dangerous? She’s a bank clerk.
Kade: I don’t
expect you’ve ever been shot in the head.
It ain’t no damned picnic. But
worse than that, she’s the type of woman that makes you want to build a house
for her, and make some babies. I’d
rather face twenty outlaws at once rather than deal with a woman like her.
Jacquie: What was
it like growing up with three brothers and a sister? How did you fare?
Kade: I’m the
second of five. My older brother, Bram,
did all the right things and got straight A’s in school. I could never measure up so there was no use
in trying—I did my own thing, which generally got me into trouble. My younger brother, Josh, mostly tried to do
whatever Bram did, and the youngest, Cage, was just a baby. Then there’s my sister, Vivvie, who’s four
years younger than me. She’s the only
one who didn’t give me crap—the kind that pulls you down. She did give me a one heckuva run for my
money, though, especially when Iris was around, which was most of the
time. What little brats they were!
Jacquie: What do
you do for a living?
Kade: People
think I’m a gunman and I let them think that.
In truth, I’m majority owner of Prospero Security Transport. Phineas Stratford is my partner and the front
man. Can that man ever yammer on! I swear he knows every line of every
Shakespeare play. Ain’t worth spit at
actual work, but that’s all right.
Prospero needs a talker and he’s it.
No one knows I’m involved with the company at all, and for security’s
sake, I keep it that way.
Jacquie: How did
you get in the security business?
Kade: While I was still living with the folks, I
apprenticed with a blacksmith, and after I left, punched cattle for a while and
did some security work. I’d always been
good with a gun so signed up to escort bullion wagons to the mint. After a while, it occurred to me that I might
as well own my own company, and then Phineas wanted to throw in with me, so
things just worked out.
Jacquie: What
brings you to Silver City?
Kade: Bonnet
Consortium hired my company to escort a bullion shipment. Idaho Territory is out of the area I normally
work, but this job is different—the bullion comes from my family’s mine. Also, Ma wired Bram saying they needed
help. He couldn’t go so he wired me and
asked me if I could. That gave me two
reasons—to protect my family’s earnings, and to help them out however they
need. (Kade stands and takes his Stetson
of the hat rack.) If you’re done, ma’am,
I’ll be seeing you later.
It didn’t much matter whether I was done or not because he
left. That’s okay, because we can see
him in Much Ado About Miners
whenever we want. Still, I’d have liked
to ask him about Duke the Cat, although I’m not so sure he’d tell the truth.
There are four Hearts of Owyhee books (http://www.jacquierogers.com/hoo.html):
Much Ado About Madams
http://amzn.com/B00RUJXEPM
Much Ado About
Marshals http://amzn.com/B00RW84YRS
Much Ado About Miners
http://amzn.com/B00RWUFB3C
Much Ado About
Mavericks http://amzn.com/B00S05Q6ZK
Thanks so much for hosting me on your blog today.
May Your Saddle Never Slip!
Jacquie
Thanks for hosting Kade and me!
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