Review: Authentic and lovely
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2014
This book was a pleasure to read.  Fallen on hard times,  the young woman protagonist answers an ad for a mail order bride, attracted by the condition that the marriage will be for "appearances only," to cook, care for and offer motherhood to a widower's motherless children. Of course he falls for her after she arrives on the "job," and the question then is will she, won't she, and why not?  No gratuitous trashy love scenes; tasteful and appropriate to the mores of the late 19th century.