Review: Surprise
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
Mother insists she knows best.  Sends for a mail order bride for her widowed son, and sheriff of Nowhere.  In shock, he drops his gun, shooting the woman in her foot and thus begins a strange courtship.  For sheer escape, it is delightful.  But the foundational plot-line is such that the reader knows the likelihood of a good outcome in that period of time under such conditions, would have been rare, indeed.  Maybe that is why we cheer to hope that some few did the impossible and escaped to find something better.