Review: A Nice Change of Pace
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2012
This is the story of Margaret Williams, a young woman so practical and out-spoken that, finding the local manly pickings a bit slim in Omaha, Nebraska, she advertises for a husband elsewhere.  Unlike another reviewer, I didn't have a probably with this aspect of the story.  Although much, much rarer than advertisements for wives, I know women also utilized this avenue when they couldn't find local mates.  It also added (for me, anyway) a bit of a twist to the usual `man places add for wife' plot used by other historical romances.What Margaret didn't count on was for the man she'd been `courting' to die in a tragic horse accident, nor for his brother to show up in her fiancé's place.  Nothing says `I love you, let's get hitched, please, dear God' quite like showing up with four small children for your first face-to-face meeting.  But he does and Margaret takes the plunge, and the end result is a story that is charming and sweet, and extremely mild where explicit sexual content is concerned.  It's definitely more romantic than erotic, which was a nice change of pace for me.