Review: A great Western
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
Abigail’s husband has died and they have no money.  So, she answers an ad for a “wife wanted’ by Eben Donahue.  She corresponds with him and agrees to come to Texas to marry him.  She and her son Jamie take the train and it is a long journey.  When they get to Texas, they find it is another two day journey to Eben’s “camp”.  Neither is very happy about it.  But, they get there and she does marry Eben.  He only asks for his husbandly rights very infrequently.  And it is a “slam, bam, thank you, ma’am” kind of thing.  After three months, the Comanche come and kill everyone in the camp except Abigail and Jaime.  Eben’s friend, Daniel, rescues them and takes them to town.  When they go back to get the money that Eben had hidden, they are captured by the Comanche.  They pretend to be man and wife to keep Abigail safe from Smoke, an Indian chief.  There are lots of spankings that are ‘encouraged’ by the Comanche as Abigail is not the proper sort of wife.  But, Daniel does his best to keep her safe and eventually, they do find love together.I really enjoyed this story.  There was good character development and enough background information to make everything make sense.  I liked Daniel’s character.  He didn’t spank for the sake of spanking and he always had a good reason, except for when forced into it by Elk Woman, an old Comanche woman who watched them.  It didn’t portray Native Americans as any more blood thirsty than white men were.  I liked that as well.