Review: Desperation turns to blessing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2013
One of the characters in this book said that a woman would have to be truly desperate to agree to marry a man she has never met.  And Maude is just that desperate.  Her parents have told her that she has to marry Horace, a man who smells bad, has oily hair, is twice her age and who stares at her in such a way that it makes her skin crawl. She knows she will do anything to get out of marrying him so she decides to become a mail order bride and she secretly boards a train heading west. She reasons that whatever her new groom is like, he CANNOT be as bad as Horace. But sometimes a woman who is truly desperate ends up being truly blessed because she ends up with a man who is good and kind and gentle and who treats her with respect. I enjoyed this book...just wish it had been longer.