Review: Love Mail-Order Bride Stories....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
Debra Holland is an excellent author. I always look forward to one of her Historical Westerns.  This Mail Order Bride: Lina storyline made me laugh, cry and enjoy the life in the old west. It was such a hardship for young women to take a chance on marrying someone they had never met.  True, the Agency in this book makes a point to check out the men in the West and get references from Pastors but there still is a mystery about the man these women marry.  Lina arriving with a pot of herbs, plants for the garden and a trunk loaded with food she wanted to make for her new husband, was so fun to read.  Lina is Italian and wants to cook "her" heritage foods for her Jonah.  Little Adam, his toddler son, immediately adores her.  Lina has been a nanny for many years so knows how to interact with this wonderful little child. She loves him instantly.  Many of the characters in this new book appear eight years later in the Starry Montana Sky book. Ms. Holland has another of her Westerns coming out this Fall and I so look forward to reading it. It is my favorite genre.