Julia (Mail Order Bride Club) is a Western Historical Mail Order Bride Romance that is quite decent, but lack of copy-editing and consistency check across multiple books in the shared universe is troublesome. And the talk of modern problems in 1880's seems to be way ahead of its time.
Julia lost the accounting job when the owner had to take an early retirement and sold the company. Repeated interviews went nowhere, so she took a chance and went West to Wyoming to meet her friend Emma, who became a mail order bride and was now very happy and pregnant. And Emma's husband has EIGHT brothers... One of whom, Liam would very much like Julia to stay around, and perhaps help his family-friendly pub. Then she discovered his secret even as the competing pub's owner started to fight back...
As a suspense, this novel is rather lame. As a romance, it's a little better, but the talk of "depression" in the 1880's seems to be well ahead of its time. The antagonist was just too flat evil, IMHO. Also, it seems this book doesn't match a lot of the details from book 1 in the shared universe. Some names have changed, and background details revised so they don't match any more.
Category: Historical western
Primary Plot: Woman visited her mail order bride friend to frontier town, fell for the pub owner brother who has his own issues...
Tropes: mail order bride, disabled (psychological), bar owner,
Overall Rating: 3/5
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