Review: I had high hopes for this book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 29, 2013
This story had all the elements that appeal to me. It had the young lovers (Daphne and Hank) who married with fantastic dreams but no money. It had a poor struggling widow who is valiantly trying to hold on to her farm. It had the heartless and crooked bankers who are determined to seize Daphne's farm by any means possible, regardless of how illegal and underhanded those means might be.  Finally, it had the handsome stranger who responded to Daphne's desperate advertisement for a mail order husband who would help her hold on to her farm. I anticipated that I would greatly enjoy the book.Unfortunately, it turned out that I did not enjoy it as much as I had thought I would.  I found it totally unbelievable that Daphne would not recognize her first love merely because he was a few years older and had grown a beard.  Surely she would have remembered his eyes or she should have recognized his voice.  Also, the author mentioned that the bank was holding as collateral against the mortgage on the farm a set of silver candlesticks and Daphne was grieving their loss because those candlesticks belonged to "her and her husband".  REALLY????The bottom line is that I found this book more than a little disappointing.