Wyoming Bride

Wyoming Bride by Joan Johnston

*MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*

I was lucky to receive this book as an ARC.


Hannah did what she had to do to get out of a bad situation. She took her sisters and left to marry a man she didn't even know and move west. Hannah grew up in Chicago with an affluent family and when disaster struck she was left with out parents and with her brothers and sisters in an orphanage by the only living relative she has her Uncle. After Hannah's older sister, Miranda, leaves with her brothers to marry a man in Texas that wanted a mail order bride, Hannah decides she can no longer take the abuse from the woman running the orphanage.

Hannah marries Mr. McMurtry and does her duty as best she can. Living in a wagon to move west was a hard life. Mr. McMurtry comes down with Cholera and dies, leaving her pregnant and a widow all before she's really had a chance to be a wife. Knowing that they can't just give up Hannah and her two sisters, Hetty and Josie move forward only to be attached by Indians.

Flint Creed is in love with his brothers, Ransom fiance, Emaline. He wanted to marry her until Ransom charmed her. Coming home from Ransom and Emaline's engagement party he finds a girl. This poor thing is sick and needs him, knowing that his brother is gone for two weeks or so he takes her home and helps her to get better. When she wakes up he decides if he can't just sit by and watch his brother marry the love of his life and be alone, so he asks her to marry him and she agrees to a courtship.

Hannah knows that Flint loves Emaline, she'd be blind not to notice, and she loves him but she's holding her heart close so she doesn't get hurt. Flint thinks that Hannah doesn't love him and he's grown to love her but how can he accept the child that's not his as his own.

I really enjoyed this book. There were a few times where I thought things fell into place to easily but over all I loved Hannah and how she didn't take things lying down. I thought that Flint should of just bucked it up, because honestly if it was so hard watching his own brother marry the woman he thought he loved, he should of moved. All in all it was a very good book and I know I'll be ready and waiting for the next one!