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
