Review: Dumb but sweet.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2013
Beautiful ingenue is tricked into marrying by her wicked stepmother. The evil groom is replaced at the last minute by his handsome hero brother. Even though they've just met, they instantly love each other even though she didn't realize it was he she was marrying. When his mother doesn't accept her, she runs away and becomes a teacher under her mother's name. Meanwhile, the new husband searches frantically for her. Will he find her before she succumbs to the cholera epidemic? I don't know why I'm enjoying these early Grace Livingston Hill books. They are very early 1900's and maybe that's part of the charm. The story is very fairy tale-like with desperate wickedness being foiled by ultimate goodness to the inevitable happy ending.