GRR Reviews Violet's Mail Order Husband by Kate Whitsby

Violet's Mail Order Husband overall just didn't make sense on multiple levels. The premise didn't make sense, the villain didn't make sense, and the ending left the whole thing on a huge cliffhanger which didn't make any sense either.

Violet, Iris, and Rose Kilburn are the heiresses to the Kilburn family Rocking Horse Ranch. However, the guardian and executor of their estate, Cornell, is unwilling to hire any help and almost intentionally running it into the ground. The three sisters settled for the most expedient solution: 3 mail order husbands, all of whom had to be cowboys to help run the ranch. But Cornell did not approve of that either. Violet cannot believe Cornell is that pig-headed even though he had brought them up after their parents were killed. Yet Cornell threatened to withhold their inheritance unless they recant their plan to marry their mail order husbands. The three sisters disagree on how to deal with Cornell. The three grooms are quite different as well. Will their plan to marry work after all, when something sinister happened at the ranch?

The book ended up on a cliffhanger, which I will not spoil. The attraction between the MMC and MFC are unexplained other than he's a kind person. The Cornell guy's objections really made no sense. (He didn't threaten to withhold the inheritance until the husbands were brought back to live on the property). It just didn't quite make sense overall.

Category: Historical Western

Primary Plot: Three sisters need three mail-order husbands to run the ranch, so why is the current manager so opposed to it?

Overall Rating: 2/5

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