I do enjoy my mail order bride stories. I know they aren’t very deep…but interesting. This one is based on Fairplay, Colorado. Greta has to travel there with her sister to leave a city where no one would marry her because her sister was a prostitute and died leaving her with a daughter that no one wanted to take on if they married her. The entire city was talking about it so she left town, got a ticket for a mail-order bride for a man when she arrives, she finds out has died. The Mayor in the little town says he’ll help her, he does by telling Wyatt that help invest in his herd of cattle to help him out if he’ll marry and start a family to help change the reputation of the city….more families….less men who are troubled and hang in saloons eventually. It was a fast read, interesting Jody Hedlund can always weave a story, I always trust her books….I liked it.
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From NetGalley.com:
Greta Nilsson's trip
west to save her ailing little sister, Astrid, could not have gone more wrong.
First, bandits hold up her stagecoach, stealing all her money. Then, upon
arriving in Fairplay, Colorado, she learns the man she was betrothed to as a
mail-order bride has died. Homeless, penniless, and jobless, Greta and her
sister are worse off than when they started.
Wyatt McQuaid is struggling to get his new ranch up and running and is in town
to purchase cattle when the mayor proposes the most unlikely of bargains. He'll
invest in a herd of cattle for Wyatt's ranch if Wyatt agrees to help the town
become more respectable by marrying and starting a family. And the mayor, who
has promised to try to help Greta, has just the candidate in mind for Wyatt to
marry.
