Judy D. - , reviewed on 2/25/2012 + 392 more book reviews

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The Unlikely Wife by Debra Ullrick
I did not see this marked as a series but you will want to read The Unexpected Bride if you enjoy series type books. In the first book Michael Bowen is a teenager. Now he is twenty-seven and wants a wife, just like his brother's wife Rainee. To say he is shocked by the woman he meets at the train station is an understatement. Mans trousers, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat and a rifle about as big as her. Sure she's got a pretty face and nice hair but this is not the woman in the letters or his dreams. He had married her by proxy sight unseen and will hold to his vows, even if it means not having a real marriage.

Selina Farleigh Bowen fell in love with Michael through his letters. Being she cannot read or write she depended on her friend Aimee to write to Michael and read her his letters. What she did not find out until arriving was that Aimee forgot to mention a few things like most of who Selina is. She realizes her husband had fallen in love with Aimee not her. They butt heads as Michael tries to get her to change and she refuses to ever let a man tell her what to do. Can Michael ever learn to love this backwoods wonder?

I found that Debra did a wonderful job of getting the emotions through in this book. I was teary eyed through much of it as they struggled. And she had plenty of humor as well. Her characters even struggled with the difference with words or phrases and different foods between Michael's Idaho and Selina's Kentucky.

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