A Bride for Keeps (Unexpected Brides, #1)

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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 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 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 Read A Bride for Keeps (Unexpected Brides, #1) author Melissa Jagears – kino-fada.fr A beautiful marriage of convenience story Completely heart warming and romantic I had been meaning to read this book ever since loving the short story Love by the Letter by the same author, and was sure that it would probably not disappoint I was so right I was swept in from the very beginning as we meet the hero, Everett Cline, and learn that he s had FOUR disappointments IN A ROW with women The first girl he wanted to marry jilted him for another, and of the three subsequent mail order bri A beautiful marriage of convenience story Completely heart warming and romantic I had been meaning to read this book ever since loving the short story Love by the Letter by the same author, and was sure that it would probably not disappoint I was so right I was swept in from the very beginning as we meet the hero, Everett Cline, and learn that he s had FOUR disappointments IN A ROW with women The first girl he wanted to marry jilted him for another, and of the three subsequent mail order brides that came on the train for him, two chose to marry another man, and one arrived already dead Poor Everett He s so cute you just want to hug him from the first scene and assure him that everything will be alright He claims to be sort of okay ish with not having a wife, but it s complete bal...Ha What do I think I ve read it a hundred times over Hope people like itThis is a difficult book for me to review because it left me with many mixed emotions.Everett Cline is a nice looking, God fearing homesteader who has been quite unlucky in the love department Sending for multiple mail order brides, one at a time of course, they all chose someone else to spend their life with He feels he must be greatly lacking and has given up the idea of marriage and a helpmate His very good friend and neighbor, Rachel, secretly answers a mail order bride ad as herself but This is a difficult book for me to review because it left me with many mixed emotions.Everett Cline is a nice looking, God fearing homesteader who has been quite unlucky in the love department Sending for multiple mail order brides, one at a time of course, they all chose someone else to spend their life with He feels he must be greatly lacking and has given up the idea of marriage and a helpmate His very good friend and neighbor, Rachel, secretly answers a mail orde...3.5 starsA Bride for Keeps is a heartwarming mail order bride story of how God heals two battle scarred hearts when strangers are brought together by a meddlesome neighbor who is a friend to them both.Ugh I cannot believe I waited so long for this book It seemed so promising a pretty cover and a different spin on a mail order plot line But the characters really lack depth Just like the story line.Julia, the supermodel from 1876, struggles with being so drop dead gorgeous her beauty is so intense that no one can think about anything else, including herself She pretty much goes cycles through feelings of shame crimes committed against her because of her beauty , guilt because apart from Ugh I cannot believe I waited so long for this book It seemed so promising a pretty cover and a different spin on a mail order plot line But the characters really lack depth Just like the story line.Julia, the supermodel from 1876, struggles with being so drop dead gorgeous her beauty is so intense that no one can think about anything else, including herself She pretty much goes cycles through feelings of shame crimes committed against her because of her beauty , guilt because apart from her beauty she s useless , resentment i mthan just a pretty face , hopelessness I m nothing but a pretty face , and ...Pleasant story of a couple who didn t really want to be married at all, but end up paired together by force of circumstances Once they tie the knot, there are all sorts of things to contend with, from old secrets to broken bones I liked both Julia and Everett, but especially loved their friends, who were responsible for bringing them together and who showed such a sweet picture of family life It reminded me of Amanda Cabot s Scattered Petals , which was one of my favorite and most memorable Pleasant story of a couple who didn t really want to be married at all, but end up paired together by force of circumstances Once they tie the knot, there are all sorts of things to contend with, from old secrets to broken bones I liked both Julia and Everett, but especially loved their friends, who were responsible for bringing t...Salt Flatts, Kansas, Spring 1876, and the train has just arrived in town with another mail order bride for Everett Cline, only he didn t order this one He wants a wife, but he s given up hope of finding one after one jilted him, one arrived dead, one arrived married and the fourth left him for a farmer with a bigger spread before they got married Julia Lockwood is from a well to do Boston family, but has run away to be Everett Cline s mail order bride on the advice of her pen pal But when she Salt Flatts, Kansas, Spring 1876, and the train has just arrived in town with another mail order bride for Everett Cline, only he didn t order this one He wants a wife, but he s given up hope of finding one after one jilted him, one arrived dead, one arrived married and the fourth left him for a farmer with a bigger spread before they got married Julia Lockwood is from a well to do Boston family, but has run away to be Everett Cline s mail order bride on the advice of her p...After reading the novella Love by the Letter I was excited to read A Bride for Keeps It started out good, but about halfway in I started to lose interest While I liked Julia and Everett, I just got fed up with how they treated each other Everett had been burned in the past view spoiler five women had jilted or left him already hide spoiler causing him to doubt Julia s intentions and was unwilling to open his heart forpain Meanwhile, Julia has run away from an unloving home and c After reading the n...I really enjoyed this debut novel by Melissa Jagears This is the story of Julia and Everett What a moving mail order bride tale After being jilted by his sweetheart years ago, Everett set out to find himself a mail order bride for companionship as well as need for help around his farm Three attempts and three failures later, he has given up His friends, however, have not given up Much to Everett s surprise, his new mail order bride has arrived Julia is typical of many mail order brides in t I really enjoyed this debut novel by Melissa Jagears This is the story of Julia and Everett What a moving mail order bride tale After being jilted by his sweetheart years ago, Everett set out to find himself a mail order bride for companionship as well as need for help around his farm Three attempts and three failures later, he has given up His friends, however, have not given up Much to Everett s surprise, his new mail order bride has arrived Julia is typical of many mail order brides in that she has something in her past that she is trying to escap...I was lucky to receive this book to read before it s debut A bride for keeps was an amazing inspiring story to read Everett and Julia both experienced pain in their past causing them to shut each other out Reading their struggles and pain felt like I was right there in the story This was the first book I read by Melissa Jagears and I must say she has made my favorite author list with this book So far A bride for keeps is the best mail order bride story I read so far this yea...

A Bride for Keeps (Unexpected Brides, #1)
  • English
  • 03 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 331 pages
  • 0764211684
  • Melissa Jagears
  • A Bride for Keeps (Unexpected Brides, #1)