Great Plains Brides

This is a compilation book with two complete novels--not three or four novellas. These novels are full-length with complete plot development and the book is well worth its price.

A Bride's Portrait of Dodge City, Kansas, by Ramona Cecil, is a well-written book detailing Addie's desire to keep her uncle's portrait studio going in light of the fact that the banker wants to foreclose on the loan her uncle took out to open the studio. She works hard at being the best, including taking a picture of a cowboy with his horse in her studio.

When Vin Rutter shows up in town wanting the money Addie's former fiance had stolen, Addie has no clue where it is, but Vin doesn't believe her. In the meantime Deputy Miles Carr also has connections to the past she wants to keep hidden, and Vin crosses paths with Miles as well. Miles wants an excuse to arrest Vin because he knows Vin has broken the law but for some reason charges have never stuck. Miles, in his role as deputy, is asked to escort Addie to her boarding house when she works late in her studio and during the escorting duties comes to fall in love with her. There are a lot of obstacles to overcome the path to true love, including murder, vandalism, and a missing picture.

A Bride's Sweet Surprise in Sauers, Indiana, by Erica Vetsch, is the sweet story of Regina and Deidrich and how an arranged marriage becomes a marriage of love. Regina's father has sent money to Venne, Germany, to bring Deidrich and his father to the United States, so that Deidrich can marry Regina and inherit her father's farm. Neither wants the marriage and convince their fathers to wait until the debt for their passage is paid off. Regina tries really hard to turn Deidrich's attentions away from her, while at the same time Deidrich is doing the same thing. Along the way, Regina finds out she's adopted, and Deidrich finds out he's falling in love with her. There is so much to this story that engages the reader and compels said reader to stay up way past bedtime in order to finish the book.

Five Stars, Two Thumbs Up, A Portrait and a Farm!