Review: Gives you chills and thrills!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2014
In The Officer and the Southerner, the officer (Jack) has ordered a mail-order bride. A big consideration in this decision was the thought of getting his own quarters rather than having to bunk with another officer. His bride has been courted and publicly dumped for no apparent reason several times, and has decided to tuck her tail between her legs and get out of town, so she answered his ad. Jack, unfortunately, did a bit of embellishing of his description of the situation, so she was expecting an actual home, servants, etc. Ella nearly dies due to a nasty spider bite, Jack nearly dies trying to save her, and her father comes to town in hot and angry pursuit. Apparently, he'd been scaring the suitors off and wants to stop Ella this time, too. However, throughout it all, they manage to prevail, and their fledgling love takes off.I absolutely loved this book, as I have every book by this author. She is simply my favorite author, and has never disappointed me. Well, okay, technically I'm disappointed that she can't write them as fast as I can read them, but other than that, she's outstanding!!!