A Bride for Keeps Book Review

About the Book

Everett Cline will never humiliate himself by seeking a mail-order bride. Not again. He’s already been jilted by three mail-order brides and figures a wife just isn’t in his future. However, a well-meaning neighbor hasn’t given up on seeing him settled, so she goes behind his back to bring yet another woman to town for him.

Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiance. A mail-order marriage in faraway Kansas is a last resort, but she’ll do anything to leave her life in Massachusetts and the heartbreak she’s experienced there.

Although Everett doesn’t see how a beautiful, cultured woman like Julia could be happy sharing his simple life, he could really use a helpmate on his homestead. Determined to prove she’s more than just a pretty face, Julia agrees to a marriage in name only. Faced with the harsh realities of life on the prairie and hesitant to explore the tentative feelings growing between them, can Everett and Julia ever let each other in long enough to fall in love?

My Thoughts

Wow…I didn’t realize how much I truly love marriage of convenience stories until I finally reached the last page of this story! And I couldn’t believe my eyes at the end when I saw this was this author’s debut novel. Seriously?! It was that good.

These two characters both have a past that they’re ashamed of, yet neither of them wants to let their guard down and share that past with the other. Everett is the first to really come around, thanks to some well-timed advice from his friend. Julia believes that all Everett wants is someone to help him work the farm, and it almost leads to her demise. Once these two are able to tear down the walls that are shielding their hearts, the sparks start to fly and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough!

Also tucked within this story is a beautiful conversion experience that points readers to Christ. Truly one of the best scenes I’ve ever read. 🙂

All in all, a winner of a story, and now I’m itching to read the next two books in this series!

5 Stars

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