A CLEAN Western Mail Order Bride ROMANCE! (With a very nice COWBOY!) Book 3 in the Suffragettes Mail-Order Brides series
With a Happy Ending - as always! (36,000+ words)
When Margaret Singleton’s parents are tragically killed in a house fire that takes with it everything she owns, Margaret finds herself penniless and homeless.
Her best friend Elizabeth Dow operates a mail-order bride agency created for Suffragettes, and offers Margaret a place to stay while she grapples with her loss. When Elizabeth presents Margaret with a mail-order bride opportunity for a rancher in Montana, who is fully supportive of the Suffrage Movement, she agrees to become a mail order bride.
Jake MacDonald is a rancher in Helena, and in need of a wife to help him run it. He stepped up his timetable for his mail-order bride, and he needs one a matter of weeks. But he didn’t reveal why...
When Margaret arrives in Montana to more than one surprise, she questions whether or not to return to Boston, but there is no turning back when her heart is won first by someone other than the handsome cowboy that’s to-be her groom.
This is book 3 in the Choice Suffragettes Brides Agency series. Each book is a a HEA standalone book, interconnected with characters. The books do not need to be read in any order, although we do recommend BEGINNINGS (KateCambridge.com/beginnings) if you want to understand Elizabeth's reason for creating a mail-order bride agency for Suffragettes! Enjoy!
Kate Cambridge is an indie author writing cozy mysteries, sweet historical romance, and contemporary romance—all with a thread of faith, hope, and suspense intertwined. Her debut series, The Choice Brides Suffragette Series, has been a bestseller with three books yet to be released, as well as her cozy mystery series, A Hannah and Callum Cozy Mystery. She has participated in several multi-author collaborations, including Sweet Americana, The Burnt River Western Romance Series, and the latest a multi-author western romance series, The Lawkeepers. She is also an author in the Kindle World, First Street Church.
She has been an avid writer since middle school and has always loved living adventures vicariously through books; as a result, she pursued a degree in Liberal Studies because, well, nothing else quite fit. Before writing full-time, she ran her own boutique marketing agency, and prior to that wore several hats in the corporate world including: negotiating six and seven figure real estate deals, writing training programs, and project management for a major supermarket company.
Writing is her passion, but she also loves animals and hopes to open a shelter for abused and homeless dogs some day. Her greatest joy and blessing is her faith, being married to her favorite person on the planet, and being a mom; she also enjoys sailing, photography, music, kayaking, and spending time with friends and family at their home on Sebago Lake.
That ended rather... abruptly. I suppose it’s my fault for not checking the page count, or perhaps it’s the author’s fault for writing the kind of book that makes you forget about page counts? I definitely thought I was somewhere at 40% when it actually ended.
Nonetheless, it was a well-executed book which was such a refreshing change to some of the juvenile writing in many clean romances. The author did a great job in bringing the heroine to life. I think many of the themes of the novel had the potential to be incredibly deep I.e. the plight of dependent women, relatives dying, institutionalized misogyny etc. The treatment of these topics was fairly peripheral, but that was the point I guess - it’s the perfect frothy book if you like light-hearted, low-drama stories, which I do.
Not what would be called ‘great literature’ but definitely a great book in its genre.
Margaret has gone to Montana to meet her potential groom. He doesn't make a good impression and Margaret immediately wonders if she made a mistake. A lot happens, good and bad. Do they get married or go their seperate ways. Does Margaret go back to Boston? Read it to find out.
I enjoyed these characters. Margaret had been through a traumatic event that left her stranded in life. Jake had dealt with his tragedies by working hard and closing off his feelings. This was not love at first sight. The other characters added color and depth to the story. Well-written sweet romance.
DNF. 1 star & 1/10 hearts. I decided to check this book for content before spending my time reading it, since the first book had had way too much content. I’m glad I did. I found that the man sees his future wife almost thoroughly undressed before they are married, & there’s intense kissing & desire before marriage.