It’s been a while since I was this excited to read a new novel. Lower paints shows a real passion and knowledge of her setting that will carry her readers away to a distant time and place. And I would be remiss if I did not mention this author’s talent for capturing the essence of 1850s America. Banking on Temperance also treats its readers to the reappearance of some of our favorite characters from her first novel, The Reluctant Debutante (Joseph fans, rejoice!). Lower is a master at creating fully-rounded characters surrounded by conflict, and in this case has created two stubborn individuals whom you cannot help but root for because they are so perfect together. Louis, but he’s a ladies man not ready to settle down and she’s a good girl determined to carry out her father’s final wishes to see her large family out to Oregon. Basil Fitzpatrick and Temperance Jones have instant chemistry when they meet in St. Not surprisingly, Becky Lower has done it again! Banking on Temperance, her third book in the Cotillion Ball Series, is everything her fans have come to expect from this talented author. He wants Temperance like he has wanted no other, but is the burden of her family too much? Basil knows if he allows Temperance into his heart, he is accepting the obligation of her entire family. She is a tiny, no-nonsense spitfire bent on fulfilling her father’s wish to get the family safely to Oregon. But also because of the eldest daughter, Temperance. Louis, waiting for the next wagon trains to leave in the spring.īasil is drawn to the family the moment they roll into town, partly because they remind him of his own big family in New York. However, hardship and sickness slowed their pace, and they are forced to spend the winter in St. But the rumblings of a war between the North and the South force the preacher to move his family to Oregon rather than to take up arms against his fellow man. Her father is a circuit-riding preacher from Pennsylvania. Temperance Jones and her family are far from privileged. He has his pick of the ladies and life by the horns. Louis branch of the family banking business. In 1856, at 23 years of age, he is the owner of the St.

Basil Fitzpatrick was born into a life of privilege.

Gambling On Forever by Becky Lower