Reviewer: Trudy
Title: Secondhand Bride
Author: Linda Lael Miller
Publisher: Pocket
ISBN: 0-7434-2275-9
Release Date: December 2004
Genre/Sub-genre: Historical Romance
Year/Setting: 1880s/Arizona Territory
Series: 3rd book in a trilogy
Overall rating: 4
Sexual content rating: Subtle
Linda's Website:
www.lindalaelmiller.com
In Linda Lael Miller's third book in her McKettrick Cowboy's trilogy, she once again keeps her readers on the edge of their seats.
Secondhand Bride tells the story of the youngest McKettrick brother and his bid for the family ranch.
Angus McKettrick, the patriarch of the McKettrick's gave his three boys an ultimatum - get married and produce his first grand child and that son will inherit the Triple M Ranch that he worked hard to build.
Through the first and second books of the trilogy, brothers Rafe and Kade found their brides but as yet have not delivered the required grand child.
In Secondhand Bride, the wild and youngest McKettrick brother, Jeb, already married to Chloe Wakefield, believes she deceived him and she's already married to someone else. Well, Chloe didn't mean to mislead Jeb about her previous marriage to a gunslinger, Jack Barrett. But Jeb also deceives Chloe about needing a bride and baby to inherit the Triple M Ranch and she's not happy with him either.
Suffice it to say the two can't seem to trust each other enough to find the truth though ex-husband Jack doesn't help and, of course, interferes to say it mildly.
Without giving away too many details, this book has to wrap up a long story. Because of this there are many new characters that enter the picture along with the main characters from the first and second books. Though the new characters help to resolve a lot of issues, at times there seems to be too many new people that you're not sure their purpose. Well it all comes to an end though I felt a little more information for some of these new characters and sub-plots would have helped me understand them better.
I enjoyed the epilogue with Angus talking to his dead wife about his three sons and his oldest son, Holt, from his first marriage. He explains that all are married and all . . . woops, can't give away too many details. The epilogue was short and to the point, however, I felt a bit more epilogue would have brought me more closure to some of the new characters and really to all three books.
Overall, I enjoyed this book as much as the other two. Once again, Linda Lael Miller gives the characters the depth of emotion that keeps you reading and not wanting to put it down.
Trudy
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