A Bride for the Deputy is a good twist on the mail order bride, by remixing it with a couple different romance tropes: mistaken identity, and stalker.
Claire fled west from the ruffians that killed her fiancee to collect on a debt, then tried to squeeze money out of her. Upon arriving in Bozeman, Montana, she was mistaken for the mail-order bride by a handsome man. She made the snap decision to embrace the mistake... only to find that her "intended" Wesley, is a deputy in town, having had his own heart broken back in Texas and is not kind toward liars. Can Claire confess before Wesley finds out that she's a liar? Can Wesley accept a liar, but only forced by circumstance?
There was a twist later which I will not spoil, but the novelette was a good change of pace without too much angst. There was a bit of suspense at the beginning and the end, and some tension about the potential discovery of the lie. Good pace and read overall.
Category: historical western, mail order bride
Primary Plot: Girl on the run was mistaken as a deputy's mail-order bride; Can she confess before he finds out?
Tropes: woman in peril, mail order bride, stalker, mistaken identity, law enforcement
Overall Rating: 4/5
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