Review: My Favorite of the Series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
I've read and enjoyed all the Priceless Love books, but as I re-read them I think this one stands out as my favorite.Mary Stiers has come out West as a mail-order bride, after answering the only ad that wasn't filled with spelling and grammar mistakes, to find herself married to a hardhanded cowboy who smells.  Of course, once he gets the time to clean up, he actually cleans up pretty nicely and he stirs all sorts of feelings in her that she's not used to.  Because her mother died when she was young, Mary didn't have anyone to talk to about sexual things and she's more than a little embarrassed by what's expected of her as a wife.I loved seeing how Kit handled her innocence - with both gentleness and firmness - as well as how he handled disobedience, because I do love a good spanking and Carolyn Faulkner writes some of the best.  Mary EARNS her spankings, sometimes because of misguided good intentions, sometimes because of her mouth, but never because she's unintelligent or acting unintelligently.  And that's one of my favorite things about this series, the heroines are strong and they don't earn spankings because of anything silly.  Their actions are always understandable.And the man has to learn a lesson too, in Kit's case it's that trust is not something that can be taken for granted and that he needs to trust his wife so that she can trust in him.  Getting jealous over other men drives a wedge between them and he realizes that he loves Mary and he will do anything to return their relationship back to normal.I love you Kit!