GRR Reviews A Drifter's Fortune (Love's A Gamble Boo by Kay P. Dawson

A Drifter's Fortune is an interesting western historical romance, with an interesting twist at the end, but that's more of a deus ex machina.

Harrison needed a bride fast... The ranch's owner died, but instead of picking an heir, he declared a contest instead: whoever among the ranchhands and foremen marry and keep a bride married for 6 months win the deed to the whole ranch. Harrison sent off for a mail order bride... no questions asked. He hoped to convince her to stay six months... // Patience and her brother had been brought up by a family that hated them and exploited them since they were small. Their only way out was for her to answer a mail order bride and go west to marry a stranger... // Patience arrived in town, at the Last Chance Ranch, and Harrison is handsome and kind. But Harrison has a surname that attracted golddiggers (even when he has no money) and there are evil folks in town who wanted Harrison to fail... badly. Patience also kept some secrets from Harrison...

Let's just say Patience's parents were not who they say they are. It's a good adventure, but romance is merely mediocre.

Category: Historical Western

Primary Plot: Man needs a mail-order bride to win the ranch, got a young woman and her brother with problems of their own

Overall Rating: 4/5

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SPOILER-SORTA -- why would her parents want to chase her down? Trip ain't cheap.