GRR Reviews Silver Heart : Mail Order Bride Historical by Amelia Rose

Silver Heart was a historical mail-order bride story that was better than average, but the ho-hum ending that avoided being a cheat on a technicality dropped it back to merely average.

Maggie Lucas left Boston as a mail order bride to Virginia City, Nevada, expecting a marriage of convenience to an owner of a silver mine. What she didn't count on was a handsome brother that tempted her, a mine that is nearly tapped out, a home that faces foreclosure, and a nemesis that wanted to take everything her husband has... Or that she had fallen for her husband for real...

The reluctance of the two brothers and the bride was expected, and the sexual tension between the bride and the two brothers are real enough. But this is not a "menage" story. Rather, it's more about how close are these guys on the edge of collapse, and how Maggie can do to support them, even when all hopes are lost, and how she came to regard the West as home. However, the ending, IMHO, was a real cop-out.

SPOILER AHEAD

The conclusion was resolved NOT by the brothers or Maggie... well, technically. The story was the mine had made money and they were sent to a different part of the family who parlayed it into big profit. So when the brothers went bankrupt and had to sell everything, they were able to start over elsewhere comfortably, leaving their nemesis to "hold the bag", so to speak. So technically they didn't resolve their situation.

Category: Historical Western

Primary Plot: Woman married west as mail order bride, came to love the West and the brothers who were poorer than she expected

Tropes: mail order bride, sibling triangle

Overall Rating:  3/5