Review: interesting - a pleasant afternoon's read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2012
I read this novel after completing the author's Romance on the Ranch series.  It's a pleasant story about a mail order bride who commits to loving a man whose stated purpose for bringing her out west was to give his three children a new mother.  The author switches centuries from her Romance on the Ranch series, setting this novel during the time when families could expect to lose members to diseases that we now normally treat without complication.  Abby falls in love with her Texas cowboy and his children, and attempts to win over the oldest, whose grief for his mother makes him reject all her attempts.  Brant falls in love with Abby while still mourning the sudden death of the much-loved mother of his three children.  The struggles are rather predictable, but the ending is satisfactory emotionally and in story-logic.  The next two of the series are due in fall and winter 2012, and I will purchase them to answer the questions I have about other characters in this Texas town.