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A bride for keeps by melissa jagears5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Everett is a strong Christian, but marriage to Julia reminds him of his responsibility to be the spiritual head of the house, even when he’s married someone who doesn’t share his beliefs (and while I don’t normally support this, I think A Bride for Keeps handles it well). ![]() ![]() I also enjoyed the Christian aspects of the story. What made this interesting is that we know Everett’s secret almost from the outset, and that provides some good comic moments as it seems that every female Julia meets in Salt Flatts was at one time engaged to her husband. Both Everett and Julia were hiding secrets, and that’s always a good source of conflict for a novel. I’m always a sucker for a good marriage-of-convenience story, and this one was well done. But when she arrives, she finds Everett isn’t exactly pleased to see her-it’s as though he knows nothing about her… Julia Lockwood is from a well-to-do Boston family, but has run away to be Everett Cline’s mail-order bride on the advice of her pen-pal. He wants a wife, but he’s given up hope of finding one after one jilted him, one arrived dead, one arrived married and the fourth left him for a farmer with a bigger spread before they got married. Salt Flatts, Kansas, Spring 1876, and the train has just arrived in town with another mail-order bride for Everett Cline, only he didn’t order this one. ![]()
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