She thinks of marriage as companionship only and there will be no children. Her husband-to-be, Everett, isn't exactly thrilled to see her, as he only learned about her minutes before her train arrived in town.Įverett has no choice but to marry Julia, but he is unaware of her excess baggage. To escape her violent past in Massachusetts and start anew, Julia Lockwood joins the mail-order marriage faraway in Kansas. A nosy neighbor, Rachel, with well-meaning intentions wants him to have a bride and brings a mail-order bride to town.
In A Bride For Keeps, Everett Cline has used the mail-order bride service three times and three times he has been jilted, leaving him very little faith in ever finding love. I liked the book cover to A Bride For Keeps, so I signed up to review it, but little did I realize it involved a mail-order bride plot. I sometimes make my book decisions by either the author's name or the cover of the book. I have read several titles over the last few years with a mail-order bride plot, so I wasn't looking forward to reading another one. When, despite their hesitations, they agree to a marriage in name only, neither one is prepared for the feelings that soon arise to complicate their arrangement.It looks I'm finally catching up on a few book reviews. Everett is skeptical a cultured woman like Julia could be happy in a life on the plains, while Julia, deeply wounded by a past relationship, is skittish at the idea of marriage at all.
Having run out of all other options, Julia resorts to a mail-order marriage in far-away Kansas. Having finally worked up the courage to leave her life in Massachusetts, she's determined to find a place where people will value her for more than her looks. Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiance. She's the prettiest woman he's ever seen, and it's just not possible she's there to marry a simple homesteader like him. When a well-meaning neighbor goes behind his back to bring yet another mail-order bride to town, he has good reason to doubt it will work, especially after getting a glimpse at the woman in question.
Although Everett Cline can hardly keep up with the demands of his homestead, he won't humiliate himself by looking for a helpmate ever again-not after being jilted by three mail-order brides.
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