GRR Reviews The Ranger's Wife: Mail Order Bride by Eveline Hart

The Ranger's Wife: A Mail Order Bride story is a historical "Western" MOB romance with a couple extra bonus novellas thrown in for good measure. The story was a bit different than the typical MOB story and the forced pairing was, well, really forced, but the story is actually pretty well plotted, but had to resort to the "kidnap" trope.

Jack Walker is a legendary US Marshall who prefers chasing criminals and keeping clean (if possible), but when his family forced him to take a bride, he didn't ask. What he didn't count on was they found a girl all the way from England called Piper Renwick, who's about as sassy as they come. Jack was not a nice guy, and he's too busy leading the convoy he was supposed to escort from Boston to Detroit. But when the much suaver Charles Dewitt, a coach owner in the convoy pays a bit too much attention to Piper, Jack is confused at his feelings. But things got complicated when he found that hidden in the convoy are enough cash and gold to start a new bank branch, and someone in the convoy is a traitor. When Piper was kidnapped during a raid on the convoy, only Jack and his fellow Marshall can save her...

The twists are much better than the typical MOB stories, and characters are better too. But really, there are no American girls for Jack and his parents had to find one from across the ocean? The bonus novellas are actually not too bad, unlike the OTHER bad MOB collections.

Category: Historical Western

Primary Plot: US Marshall had to take his new mail order bride from Boston to Detroit with a convoy, but there's a traitor in their midst...

Tropes: mail order bride, kidnapping, different worlds, protector, woman in peril, law enforcement

Overall Rating:  4/5 (rounded up)