Thursday, October 24, 2013

Melissa Jagears

Dear Readers,
 
Sometimes a light romance is all I really need to read.  I was suffering from a cold a few weeks ago and the cold medicine I was on made it hard to concentrate on a book. A Bride for Keeps by Melissa Jagears was actually the perfect book to read. 
 
Everett Cline has tried 3 times for a mail order bride and three times he has come up empty, jilted in fact.  One the bride was married to someone she met on the train ride and one of the other brides took one look at his homestead and decided to find a better prospect.  He vows to never try again, until his meddling friend Rachel sends for a bride without telling him. 
 
Julia is looking to get out of town.  She has become a pretty pawn for her father and his business and her former fiance' turned out to be less than she thought he was.  She is at the end of her rope, but she isn't sure Everett is really all that interested in marrying her either.
 
Mail-order brides always seem to do well in the historical fiction department.  Maybe because to most of us the idea of marrying someone sight unseen is slightly terrifying.  I am not sure I would have ever been brave enough to just hop on a train to the middle of nowhere and marry the guy waiting on the other end, but because of these brave women our country and many others were settled and made in to the great countries we know today.
 
Like I said before, this is not a hard read, it is just a fun little read that gives you a little peek into some of the stresses of what it is was like to meet a complete stranger and then take her home as your wife. 
 
Happy Reading

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