Blurb:
Isabella “Bella” Latham's callous father sold her
into marriage to settle a gambling debt. Rather than face life with a cruel man
more than twice her age, she runs from New York and becomes a mail-order bride.
Bella's dreams are simple. All she needs to be happy is a home, children and an
honorable man to love her.
Alex Hastings lost his wife in a riding accident
two years before. Left with two adorable but mischievous twin
four-year-old daughters, he's convinced they need a mother to take care of
them. Alex knows he must marry, but vows he’ll never love another woman.
Bella's tenderness and fire melts Alex's stone
cold heart. But when her jilted fiancé from New York sends men to capture
Bella, will Alex be able to get back his Stolen Bride?
At
the moment I read a lot of historical romance so I've already come
across some of Cynthia Woolf's books as well. "The Stolen Bride"
is a sweet and nice read and I enjoyed reading it but sometimes the
heroine and the hero really made me roll my eyes in frustration. The
book is well written, the characters are very likeable but sometimes
I would have wished for something more. Or a bit less -at least when
it comes to predictablity.
Bella,
the heroine flees from New York to a small town in Montana as a
mail-order-bride in order to avoid marriage to a horrible and cruel
man. In Montana Alex, a widower with two little daughters is waiting
for his mail-order-bride or rather for his daughters'
mail-order-mother, as he is determined to stay true to his late wife
and never fall in love with Bella no matter what happens.
Now
it's up to Bella to turn their marriage that is supposed to be in
name only in something more, something precious.
Unfortunately
her former fiancé is not willing to let her go and things get rather
tight when he goes after her in order to force her to come back...
I
liked Bella and her courage to take on life on a farm with all its
hardships but sometimes her naivete frustrated me almost as much as
her husband's determination to keep apart from her no matter what.
Alright,
in the end Alex earned some brownie points and made up for all his
stupid actions at the beginning but...well.
Even
though the story was rather predictable, it was a nice and easy read
and I liked it.
★★★
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