Love in Disguise by Carol Cox

Love in Disguise by Carol Cox is the story of Ellie Moore, a would-be actress in 1880s Chicago. When she loses her job and is left penniless on the streets of Chicago, her only hope to escape the frigid midwestern winter is to become an agent for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. After demonstrating how her acting skills and costumes will help her as an agent, Ellie is given the opportunity to travel undercover to Arizona to investigate thefts from a silver mine. When the other agent who is supposed to help her runs off, Ellie is forced to play two roles in the investigation: Lavinia (an older woman) and Lavinia's niece, Jessie (a beautiful and vivacious young woman). Things get complicated as she attempts to investigate the thefts while playing the two different roles. When one of the mine owners starts to fall in love with "Jessie", Ellie also has feelings for him but fears that he only loves the woman she is impersonating.

I found this book enjoyable and really wanted to find out how it ended. It was a good read but a little slow moving for me and definitely wasn't one of those books that I just couldn't put down. The end was fairly predictable, but all in all it was a good book.

I was given a free copy of this book by Bethany House Publishers and all opinions are my own. I would like to thank Bethany House for the book and the opportunity to review it.