Paige Mackenzie is a reporter for the Manhattan Post. Her next assignment will take her to Colorado, not too far from her boyfriend, Jake in Wyoming. She plans to make it a ½ work trip – ½ romantic getaway when Jake agrees to meet her in Hutchins Creek, CO.

The assignment Paige is working on revolves around the history of the railroad and the Old West. Sounds simple, but nothing is simple when Paige is involved … trouble just seems to find her. She has a naturally curious personality, which makes her a good investigator / researcher for her writing assignments. Her friendly and outgoing nature puts people at ease. They are comfortable sharing info with her, helping her to put all the facts together to solve the mystery. The mystery in this case revolves around an old train car named “The Morning Star” and an unsolved gold coin robbery at the Denver Mint from nearly a century ago. Will Paige solve it? You’ll have to read it to find out for yourself 🙂

Deborah Garner is a great story teller. Because of the detailed research she puts into her books, I always learn new things. She describes her settings so that you almost feel like you are there too. You feel like you are with Paige as she talks to people and does the research for her article.

I really enjoyed this book, and look forward to more Paige Mackenzie mysteries 🙂 ( )

Paige MacKenzie is definitely a magnet for finding troubles--and has a penchant for not letting go until the mysteries that fall into her lap are solved. Of course she is a journalist--so that might have something to do with it. Her long distance boyfriend, Jake Norris, again has to save her. At least this time he managed to take a vacation and meet up with Paige in the little town of Hutchins Creek where her current writing assignment is. Will Jake finally convince Paige to take the plunge and move to his ranch--he has been trying for a couple of books in this series (I loved them all).

But who caused the antique train in the museum to start--then derail? The answer to this surprised me--I really didn't think of it--but then again------------And who stole the double eagles from the mint all those years ago? Will this age old mystery get solved?

This book is part of a series which I would recommend to anyone--each can be read as stand alone--but I think you would enjoy them all! ( )