Here we have another mail-order bride dilemma. Young woman impoverished by the death of her parents - she finds out her father was a gambler and everything that should have been hers has to be sold to pay his debts. Ho Hum. Now what is she to do?? Oh, wait - she can answer an ad from a man she doesn't know and travel across the country to become his bride, thwarting total poverty and selling herself into the life of servitude reserved for a ranchers wife.
The saving grace in this novel is that the reader knows what they're getting. SO, there should be a certain sense of grace with having the same story dished up another way. The characters are key in the dish - and the two young folks presented here are nice enough, They don't set fire to the pages with their wit, conversation, or charisma, but they are nice.
Of course, this is a HEA (happily ever after), so we don't expect a lot of grief. In this case, the most grief we see deals with chickens and a major dust storm. A short, cozy read for those times you need exactly that...short.