Karen Witemeyer has written some of my favorite Christian historical fiction novels, but this isn't one of them. It was like the book couldn't decide if it was going to be a western or a regency romance and smashed the two genres together. I like a sweet love story as much as the next woman--and I obviously realize this is fiction--but it was just too unrealistic for me and dripped with wish fulfillment. The main characters were too perfect and the plot riddled with too many seen-it-before elements all crammed together. I also like quite a bit of build-up in my love stories--which Karen Witemeyer has done quite well in other stories--but it seemed like all of a sudden these two were in love and thinking marriage out of nowhere. 
 AND SO. MUCH. MELODRAMA. 
 I highly recommend Witemeyer's Short-Straw Bride and Stealing the Preacher, but Head in the Clouds is too desperate for my taste.