Helpful Score: 4
This was my first book by Sandra Chastain and I will definately be looking for others. I was constantly wondering how the book would end, when usually I have guessed it by the middle of the book when I read romance novels. Unpredictable plot, beautiful love story, and wonderful friendships fill this book.
Helpful Score: 2
A bride in desperate need of a groom. A man running from a killer. A mistaken identity. The perfect setup for an odd marriage of convenience. A quick and fun read.
Good book. I've read many about mail-order brides, but was curious about a mail-order groom, so requested this book. Enjoyed it very much!
from inside cover--
Lovely Melissa Grayson will make any sacrifice for the private Academy she inherited. Since the unmarried men of Silver Wind, Colorado, tend to go into a frenzy for her attention, the sherriff has given her an ultimatum: get a husband or go to jail.
Jail would mean the end of her Academy . So Melissa writes to a pen pal beack East to propose a platonic union. It's not entirely her fault that, when gambler Lucky Lawrence steps off the stagecoach, she mistakes him for the scholarly stranger she's expecting.
But there's a murderous sore loser on Lucky's trail- and a bookish gent with platonic intentions coming to town- and between them, Melissa may never experience wedded bliss.
Lovely Melissa Grayson will make any sacrifice for the private Academy she inherited. Since the unmarried men of Silver Wind, Colorado, tend to go into a frenzy for her attention, the sherriff has given her an ultimatum: get a husband or go to jail.
Jail would mean the end of her Academy . So Melissa writes to a pen pal beack East to propose a platonic union. It's not entirely her fault that, when gambler Lucky Lawrence steps off the stagecoach, she mistakes him for the scholarly stranger she's expecting.
But there's a murderous sore loser on Lucky's trail- and a bookish gent with platonic intentions coming to town- and between them, Melissa may never experience wedded bliss.
I enjoyed this book
Melissa Grayson is cursed with great looks, brains and a body to die for. When she arrives in Silver Wind, Colorado, to assume leadership at her father's school, she creates mayhem amongst the bachelors. Finally, the sheriff and the clergy decides that Melissa must marry or be jailed. Rejecting the local men, Melissa writes to New York for a bookish teacher, James Harold Pickney IV.
Melissa has never met him but has had correspondence with the Harvard man for more than a year. She asks him to marry her 'in name only' and he agrees. However, James is a sickly sort who is detained by illness along the way.
In the meantime, Lucky Lawrence is looking for a place to hide out. In another state, he helped a woman escape from a gambler/killer and needs to lie low. When he arrives in Silver Wind, people assume that he is Melissa's fiance' and Lucky realizes that this is a perfect solution to his problem.
I had a problem with accepting that the sheriff could decide that an innocent woman could be imprisoned for being beautiful. Once I got over that boulder, I could accept the rest of the story.
Melissa has never met him but has had correspondence with the Harvard man for more than a year. She asks him to marry her 'in name only' and he agrees. However, James is a sickly sort who is detained by illness along the way.
In the meantime, Lucky Lawrence is looking for a place to hide out. In another state, he helped a woman escape from a gambler/killer and needs to lie low. When he arrives in Silver Wind, people assume that he is Melissa's fiance' and Lucky realizes that this is a perfect solution to his problem.
I had a problem with accepting that the sheriff could decide that an innocent woman could be imprisoned for being beautiful. Once I got over that boulder, I could accept the rest of the story.
