Dakota Dreams

Do you have to give up your dreams and career to be a wife and mother? Why can’t Lottie have her cake and eat it too?

That is the dilemma that Lottie Buchanan is going through when she leaves St. Louis to start a singing career in Deadwood Gulch. While there, she meets and falls in love with Grant Adams. Grant is a miner in Deadwood Gulch. Standing over six feet tall, Grant is a big, sexy red-headed man who wants to devour, protect and love Lottie forever. Lottie, who was raised in an upper class home, has finally gotten a taste of freedom and doesn’t want to give up her lifelong dreams of singing.

Can love conquer all? While spending weekends together, Grant finds that he wants more and more to become part of Lottie’s life. She has signed a contract to sing and the contract is almost up. Will she go on to Denver to pursue her career or will she give it all up for Grant?

Dakota Dreams by Weta Nichols allows you to see how women back in the Old West had to make choices and decisions that would affect their lives. You can see through the eyes of Lottie and Grant how life was back then. Portraying the events accurately gives the reader a look into the past. I could almost smell the stale beer and whiskey smells of the saloon where Lottie sang. Weta Nichols has done just that, encompassing and enriching us with Dakota Dreams; this is not just a story, but a story of passion, love and the decisions that we, as humans, make every day.

You are taken back to the past in Dakota Dreams, giving you a look at the “Wild West”. Pick up this book and escape into times long ago. You'll be cheering for love to win, but also hoping against all odds that Lottie can have both her career and her love with Grant. Dakota Dreams is a very enjoyable book and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to read about the West as it used to be.

Reviewed by: Wendi