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"A Great Western Read!!!"
Reviewed by Rashmi Srinivas
Posted October 1, 2002

Jodi Thomas continues her Lone Star State romances with THE TEXAN'S WAGER - this tender loving story of Bailee and Carter, set in the 1800s. Bailee, along with two other women, is kicked off a wagon train when they try to help a sick woman. Together, they somehow make their own Read more...

"exciting western romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 10, 2002

In 1883, the Roland Wagon train tosses out ailing Sarah Andrews whose husband and daughter just died and, for helping the ailing woman, Bailee Moore and teenage Lacy Dillavou. Bailee takes charge leading the other two women south to Texas. Within a day of Cedar Point, vicious killer Read more...

Jodi Thomas's new Texas trilogy follows three spunky women who get kicked off a wagon train-and agree to enter the local town's "Wife Lottery." In The Texan's Wager, Bailee Moore is "won" by a strong, silent farmer who could be the key to leaving her troubled past behind...

In the first novel of a brand-new Texas trilogy, USA Today bestselling author Jodi Thomas takes her "exquisite and often lyrical" writing to passionate new heights as an emotionally wounded man and woman discover the true nature of love and marriage...

Summary

Thrown off a wagon train with two other women and trying to avoid jail for a murder they committed, Bailee Moore agrees to enter a "Wife Lottery" — a ploy concocted by the Cedar Point sheriff to secure wives for the men in the small Texas town. For the sensible Bailee, however, marrying Carter McKoy is the like exchanging one life sentence for another—especially since her new husband hasn't even uttered a single word to her in her presence. But still, she can't help thinking that something about his strong, silent farmer could be the key to leaving her troubled past behind...and making a worthy wager with her heart.