Celia Lawrence can’t show her face in her conservative, small town. First, she discovered her husband in bed with another man’s wife, and then she witnessed both their murders. While she didn’t pull the trigger, small town gossip is not forgiving and everywhere she goes she is chastised for not being woman enough to keep her straying husband at home. Eager to flee her old life, Celia heads to … Colorado as a mail-order bride.
As mayor of Slate Springs, Colorado, Luke Tate is expected to set the example. Their small town is hidden away in a remote mountainous region where few women have the courage or desire to tread. As mayor, it falls to him to test out their newly passed law and share a wife with his brother. The truth is, Luke has no interest in a woman of his own, and agrees to a mail-order bride out of duty, not anticipation.
His brother, Walker, is jaded and hard after the death of his first wife. For Walker, loving again is out of the question. But a man has needs, and he’ll eagerly take his pleasure from their new bride while expecting Luke to provide the tenderness and caring a woman expects.
A marriage based on everything but love should be doomed. But Celia, Luke and Walker discover one thing they have in common: desire. Will that be strong enough to survive the danger that follows Celia from Texas? Will desire be strong enough to teach the three that sometimes you have to risk everything for love?
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Good characters that express their feelings and thoughts so you grow to love and admire them. The story is intriguing and full steam between Celia and her two husbands, Luke and Walker. The way they just took their husband responsibilities to the next level is so hot. Celia gets the matches made in heaven with her desperate mail order bride application.
Loved this book. Im a big fan of romances and this author usually always comes through for me .
a good read
For this type of genre, it is wonderful suspenseful and romantic book. Very enjoyable and a fast read for myself. I enjoyed it very thoroughly. I am glad I read it It had a nice plot twist that was interesting too.
Finding Happiness
Celia was a nurse and her husband was the town doctor in Texas and afternoon instead of doing her normal rounds she came home and found her husband sleeping with someone else. The lady ‘s husband came and short them both she was left with no money, no home and needing to get out of town. She became a mail order bride and got 2 husbands for one.
Great
This is a good book loaded with more sex than I am use to but it did have a really good story line to it. For myself the story line is more important. Guess I am old enough been through life and it’s experiences and to have a husband that is fulfilling the sexual side to the stories are fine just as long as that is not what the story is entirely based on. That said the story line was really good as far as I was concerned. There way our leading lady Celia, leaving Tyler Texas to move to Colorado to marring a man she has never met before. There is our leading men; two brothers Luke and Walker. Luke is the mayor of Slate Springs, a town where the men really out number the women. Added with that for several months of the winter their town is cut off from the rest of the country in the winter from the pass being snowed over. Oh, I forgot to mentions this story is set in the mid 1800’’s; so no snowplows or electricity in these parts. Don’t want to think about the bathroom facilities back then…brrr.
Celia had been with her husband John for five years. That he blamed on her, they were barely together and when they were it was like she was just a piece of furniture. He did his thing and rolled over. John was one of three doctors in town. This being the summer time, in Texas it gets hot. I know that for a fact. I call it vampire weather it is so hot it will suck every bit of energy out of you in moment. Her husband only saw patients in the morning then locked himself in his office until 5. During the day she went out and visited the women of the town that needed looking after. She had just finished washing the dishes in on ladies house whom had just given birth the day before. Being tired she returned home earlier than the norm. Hearing noise upstairs and Johns office door down stairs she went in to investigate. Going in the adjoining room; the door being opened to make a breezed go through the other room she could see what was going on in the next room. It was things John never did with her nor did he act like he enjoyed it at like he was with this other woman that was tied to their bed frame. She didn’t have long to wait to discover that the woman was married, and that her husband was coming into the bedroom to confront to two lovers and deal out his own version of justice. A few days later a Judge had handed down his judgment on the husband and he was hung. Tired of the looks and whimpers she was getting and a very bad incontinent with the dead mans brother she signed up to be a mail or bride.
The brother Luke and Walker were going to be the first in their town to put in place what the town council voted into law. Two men could now marry one man. They were in Denver to pick Celia up at the train station. Luck wanted a wife and life partner to share with and children as well. Walker was a little unsure. He had been married before and it had not been a good one. Though he loved her she was only using him as an escape from her oppressive family. He was slightly jaded, then after meeting Celia he was jaded and scared spitless; though we will have to wonder if he can get over everything of his past to face his future. Celia has to learn to trust her new husbands with all her secretes, all her needs and all her wants. Will she be able to do that after a lifetime of basically being ignored. How are they going to react when she tells them her biggest secrete
I absolutely loved it and i would definitely recommend it.
I love Vanessa Vale
That love will always win.
It was a good read, unconventional story that keeps you wanting to find out what happenes next.
An awesome and sexy book. Loved it.
Just didn’t work for me – I couldn’t get past the first few chapters where the same few bits of information were repeated several times
I love her books
This is a historical romance, which i dont like . The synopsis fails to mention that and the cover of the book is misleading. I also find it irritating that the charectors use curse words that were not used in the time the book was supposed to take place.
Mail order bride theme with menage. Good story but way too short.
Typical mmf plotline–instant love, lots of sex, insane stalker, lots of “dirty” words that weren’t commonly used like they are today. There was even the minor obstacle of the one who didn’t want love. And honestly, how common is it to share women? Have guys done this a lot then not said anything? I’ve heard numerous requests or bragging tales for two women at once, but rarely two men and one woman. I’ve heard rules about a devil’s three some: no eye contact, no touching the other guy, but guys don’t talk about them doing it specifically. As a fantasy goes it’s a pretty good one but that lifestyle reads more porn than anything else.
A Wanton Woman – Hoping to leave a traumatic scandal behind her, Celia answers an ad for a mail order bride. Colorado should be far enough from Texas for the scared nurse to feel safe, but the brother of her husband’s murderer is after her. Her best bet for safety is the fact that she just married the town mayor (and his brother). Let’s hope the power of love at first sight is enough to save the day! (Really. They should keep me away from love at first sight and destined happiness. It brings out the smartass in me!) Happy Reading!
A great read
Celia was in a loveless marriage, a marriage of convenience. No children to keep her occupied, she devoted her time and energy in helping her husband with his practise. As a doctor he was competent, as a husband sorely lacking! But she would do her duty, till death do they part, death came for her husband not as old age or an accident, but by gunshot! Caught in the act with his lover! But it’s Celia that has to face the brunt of the accusations and looks! If she’d kept her husband happy and given him children, he would not have looked elsewhere!
So moving to a new town seemed like the only course of action……
Luke is mayor in the town of Slate Springs. In winter is hard going, but he manages his job as miner and mayor well. It’s just this new bill they have passed, men are outnumbering the women, it’s driving the younger men out, searching for companionship, so they’ve passed a law stating that two or more men should marry and care for one wife! And as he’s mayor he needs to lead by example. Joining a mail order bride scheme seems like the only course of action.
The woman stepping off the train and into his life is nothing like he pictured.
He’s floored by his reaction, it seems it won’t be a hardship taking on a bride. If he brother gets on board then it’s going to be a fun winter!
Walker wants a bed warmer, a wife he will leave to his brother. Having already lost a wife, he has no room in his heart.
Agreeing to this new law with his brother seems like the best option.
But when Celia steps off the train and into their lives, Walker is the sure he can keep his distance from this beguiling creature.
Finding their way together is going to be fun, but when Celia’s past comes to find her, can her new husbands keep her safe? And can Walker put aside his fear of commitment? Can he truly want his new wife for more than just a bedwarmer?
So can this threesome work as a team? Or will their pasts pull them in different directions?
This was a fun read. Celia having been literally an appendage for her husband, she longs for love and affection. But does she get it? No, but someone else does! I liked that she knew what she wanted, I liked the way the story progressed, I’m not sure in the 1800’s the endearment “doll” was used. But that was just a minor issue.
The wooden butt plugs were novel (hope there weren’t any splinters )
A little too much sex for a short story, but if you read this authors western books, you’ll know it’s the norm.