The Spark of Love by Amanda Cabot

When a spurned suitor threatens her, heiress Alexandra Tarkington flees New York for Mesquite Springs in the Texas Hill Country, where her father is building a hotel. But the happy reunion she envisions is not to be as her father insists she return to New York. Instead, Alexandra carves out a niche for herself in town, teaching schoolchildren to paint and enjoying the company of Gabe Seymour, a delightful man she met on the stagecoach.

But all is not as it seems. Two men, each with his own agenda, have followed her to Mesquite Springs. And Gabe is an investigator, searching for proof that her father is a swindler. When a series of apparent accidents threaten her life, Alexandra and Gabe will have to work together to discover the truth. And perhaps along the way they will discover that the sparks of attraction they've felt from the beginning are more than sparks--they're love.

My review:  Alexandra Tarkington is a force to be reckoned with.  When a suitor threatens her and say she will marry him, she disappears.  Alexandra travels to Mesquite Springs where her father is building a hotel.  She does not get the warm welcome she is expecting.  Her father wants her to go back to New York and marry the man who threatened her.  She refuses to go and works at trying to get her father to change his mind.  Meanwhile Gabe catches her eye.  Gabe is on the trail of a man who swindles people out of their life savings.  He discovers that man is Alexandra's father.  

This is a good book to read by the fireplace on a cool evening.  

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