Ready to retire from her dangerous life as a Pinkerton spy, Lily Handland decides to settle down in a small town in the Adirondacks. Unsure how to make a living in her new life, Lily decides to invest in a failing great camp owned by widower Owen Murphy. Distraught after the death of his wife, Owen has let their once-renowned great camp fall apart. Facing the loss of his home and livelihood, Owen accept's Lily's offer to co-own and re-open the camp, but isn't quite ready for all the changes she proposes. Full of energy and new ideas, Lily eventually brings joy and life back to the camp and to Owen as well. Will Lilly's past-life come back to haunt her new one? Will Owen truly be able to risk his heart again?
Tracy J. Lyons takes readers back to the Adirondacks in her second installment of her Adirondak Pinkertons series. Though I have not read Lyons's first book in the series, I was still able to understand and enjoy The Heart of an Agent. The story was more than a bit predictable, and has been told countless times before. The interesting setting in the Adirondack Mountains of the 1890s, though, brought an interesting uniqueness, however. The traditional "get a failing business up and running again" storyline-- while predictable-- is also always reliably satisfying. The climax of the story is a bit frustrating in that the reader knows what will eventually happen, and is simply waiting for the characters to come to their senses. Overall, I enjoyed the novel and managed to learn a bit of history, too!
I received a free copy from the publisher. No review, positive or otherwise, was required—all opinions are my own.
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