The Christmas Mail Order Bride (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Book Description....Sheriff Clayton Riley asked for a pair of boots for Christmas, not a mail order bride! Unfortunately for Clayton, his brother and mother figured a bride would look better on him than a new pair of boots! After all, he'd been sulking around long enough after the death of his wife, and his family decided it was time to take matters into their own hands and see to it Clayton had a very merry Christmas! Summer James was young, she was beautiful and, an impoverished orphan. Who would want such a woman? Obviously no one. For here she was, eighteen and now of age to set out on her own. But New Orleans was full of men with evil intent for one such as herself, and she saw no other choice but to take the only offer for survival she could find and become a mail order bride. What she didn't count on was becoming Sheriff Clayton Riley's Christmas present! Title: The Christmas Mail Order Bride By: Kit Morgan Publisher: Angel Creek PressSeries: Holiday Mail Order Brides # 1Reviewed By: Arlena Dean Rating: 4Review: "The Christmas Mail Order Bride"What I enjoyed about this novel....I liked this sweet romantic western holiday read. The author gives the reader a very well written story with characters that were for the most part well developed, captivating and believable. What a story this was...a brother and his mom finding a mail order bride for his a brother and her son. What will come of this? What will happen when Summer and Clayton's first meet? Now, to get that part you will have to pick up this good read to see what all happens with this heroine and hero. There will be some secondary characters that will really have you shaking your head and saying really? However, be really for some twist, humor and some suspense from this good read. We start out with Summer James arriving in the town of Nowhere in the Washington Territory. She is a mail order bride and is expecting to be met by the man she is to marry. Summer was an orphan in New Orleans but when she turned 18 she couldn't stay in the orphanage so she tried to find work locally. When she didn't find a job, she knew her only choices were to become a mail order bride or work in a bordello. The matron of the orphanage was in touch with a mail order bride agency and arranged for Summer to get married. Summer traveled all the way to Nowhere to marry Sheriff Clayton Riley. Poor Clayton didn't order the bride and didn't know she was coming until minutes before she arrived. His brother and mother thought Clayton needed a wife so they pretended to be Clayton and requested a bride.I liked this story and was interested in the way things were a hundred years ago. It was interesting to see that in those times even being kissed was a big deal. How times have changed. I felt sorry for Summer living in an orphanage her entire life but thought she was sooo annoying with her "fear" of not being wanted. She drove me crazy. Clayton certainly had his issues to but I did come to like him as we got to know him better.
What do You think about The Christmas Mail Order Bride (2013)?
I found the characters and story line true to the time period— insightful!
—ocnbreez
