A Sensible Arrangement
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Marty Dandridge Olson is ready to leave behind the pain of the past.
Answering an advertisement for a "Lone Star bride," she leaves her Texas ranch and heads to Denver to marry a man she doesn't know.
Jake Wythe is the man waiting for her.
Burned by love, he marries now simply to satisfy the board of Morgan Bank, which believes a man of his standing in society should be wed. Together Jake and Marty agree they are done with romance and love and will make this nothing more than a marriage of convenience.
When missing money and a collapsing economy threaten his job, Jake's yearning to return to ranching grows ever stronger, much to Marty's dismay. But a fondness has grown between them, as well, further complicating matters.
What will happen when their relationship shifts in unexpected ways...
and dreams and secrets collide?
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2 primary books#1 in Lone Star Brides
Lone Star Brides is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Tracie Peterson.
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3.5 stars.
This was an odd type of book. It starts with a bang and then goes into a society where Marty has to adjust to life as a rich banker's wife. Except he's not so rich in his own right, but because of his work in the bank. And there are hinky things going on with the bank, which may easily have been the reason the Alice, Marty's maid, ended up scarred, orphaned, and destitute.
I lost stars because, while the characters were well sketched and realistic, they didn't jump off the page and grab me. And I personally like it when the suspense element is played up a trifle more in a novel/series that has a recurring villain. But Marty and Jake's relationship is satisfying to watch grow, and I definitely felt like Marty grew on me in the story as she tried to do the right thing despite her own wishes. Even though she fought it, she knew what she ought to do. There is only one holdout of her willfulness...left to be dealt with in the next book...
