Review: Good historical western romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2014
I liked this book, the first I've read by this author. It was well written and well edited with some interesting historical insights into life in military fort.I liked Allison better than I did Wes at first. She was kind of thrown to the wolves in a way, getting left behind by the stagecoach when she went into the store to buy something to eat. Wes made all kinds of assumptions about her based on where she was from and how she was dressed. He did do a chivalrous thing and offer to marry her temporarily to protect from the soldiers, but he was very sarcastic to her all the time.Allison, bless her heart, was going to meet the fiance her father arranged for her before he suddenly died. She was used to having a cook and buying clothes from a seamstress. When she has to try to do these things for herself, she's lost. Wes keeps making remarks about wastefulness and sarcastic remarks about rich people, so she feels she can't ask him for help. Luckily, the two other wives on base are kind and help Allison learn about sewing and cooking. Wes realizes that he's being mean and buys her some nice things and they start spending more time together, enjoying each other's company.What will happen when her fiance finally comes to get her and finds her a married and very different woman than the one he knew in Boston?Heat factor moderate.