GRR Reviews The Mail Order Bride Carries a Gun by Wanda Ann Thomas

Ella Hunter didn't want to be a mail-order bride, but when a photo appeared in the marriage gazette, of a man holding her dead brother's saber, she thought only of revenge. Ella agrees to marry the soldier turned cowboy called Ty Haven, but it was only a ruse to reclaim her family legacy. But Ty turned out to be nothing like she expected... // Ty runs a ranch in the Wyoming Territory with his brothers, mostly not by blood, but they are family. Their parents were dead, shot down by someone. They suspected a competing ranch owner, who always have threatened them, inducing them to sell out, but there was no proof. He needed a wife because his home needs a woman's touch, and his two "adopted" boys need a gentler hand of guidance. And Ella is beautiful but no less tough. But she's hiding a secret...

Do marriage gazette really have pictures back then? Would the guy's "photo" appear in the SAME ISSUE that he was seeking a bride? This doesn't really make that much sense, does it? Or did someone happen to just keep all the old issues around? The complications, on the other hand, are pretty good, and the bit about the other brother Boone was obviously a setup for subsequent volumes. It has nice touches.

Category: Historical Western

Overall Rating: 4/5

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