The Vigilante's Bride

All right kids, this will be my final Bethany House review for a while. The Vigilante's Bride by Yvonne Harris is set in the Montana Territory of 1884; Emily McCarthy is forced to leave her position as a teacher at the Chicago orphanage where she was raised in order to marry a widow out west.  Though she has never met her future husband, she realizes what little options are available to a young woman such as herself.  Christmas Eve, she finds herself on a stagecoach on the way to met the man she would marry.  In the darkness, however, the stage coach is robbed by Luke Sullivan; when Sullivan finds out Emily is supposed to marry his enemy, he not only takes the money from the stagecoach- he takes Emily as well.  Sullivan brings Emily back to his home- an orphanage.  And though Emily doesn't take kindly to her so-called rescue, she is hoping her situation will turn out well, especially when she begins to work with the children at the orphanage.

This is, of course, one of the typical historical romance books.  After the first page, you know how the story will end, but you're not too sure of the middle.  The book was enjoyable- a good distraction at the end of a long day.  It's not definitely a great work of literature, but the story is uplifting and encouraging.

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