Wyoming Bride

by Joan Johnston

Series: Mail-Order Brides (#2)

Published by: Dell

January 1st, 2013

Genre: Historical Romance

Format: eBook

Source: Purchased

Rating: 4 Stars

     CAN SECRETS AND SECOND CHOICES EVER LEAD TO LOVE?

     After three months in a mail-order marriage, Hannah Wentworth McMurtry is a widow--pregnant, alone, and near death in the Wyoming wilderness. Though she is saved by a man with a face cut from stone, she still grieves the husband who died on their journey west. Hannah needs a husband, but does she dare marry another stranger?

     Flint Creed has also lost someone he loved--when the woman he hoped to marry chose his younger brother instead. Now he must find a ranch wife of his own. But every female in the remote Wyoming Territory is too old, too young, or already married... until he discovers Hannah on the prairie. Flint doesn't pretend to love her, but he doesn't tell her he loves another woman, either. Hannah doesn't pretend to love him, but she doesn't tell him about the child she carries. Though danger surrounds them on the Wyoming frontier, the greatest threats of all are the secrets within--revelations that could destroy the new life Hannah and Flint have begun to cherish.

     What I liked about this book is that it is not your traditional Historical Romance where you have a lady or a debutante trying to either avoid scandal, a man or plain and simple has given up on ever finding a man of her own.

     Hannah has married a man that has promised to take her sisters with them so they can leave the awful orphanage they have been leaving in and being mistreated on. Their older sister left with their two little brothers in the first book and they are tired of wondering what happened with their sister and if she'll ever come for them.

     On the way to Cheyenne, Wyoming her husband dies of cholera leaving her and her sisters to fend for themselves. After an attack from Sioux Indians, she is separated from her sisters and near death when Flint finds her.

     From this point on it a roller coaster of secrets, lies and emotional scars that leave not just this two with a lot of thinking to do but Flint's brother Ransom and his fiance Emaline too. We get this side story that is just the perfect amount of distraction for all the time that goes in between (sometimes months) without letting you feeling like you lost something in the telling.

     I will definitively be adding a couple of Ms. Johnston's book to my growing TBR pile.