Dr. Rory Jude is tired of coming in second — second in his father’s affections, second-in-line to run the family business, and the second choice of the lady he is courting who always seems to have her eye on a wealthier suitor. He responds to an advert to open his own medical practice in Arizona, determined to change his stars, and finds himself in a town desperately short of marriageable women. … women. Until a chance encounter with a mail-order bride agency owner opens his eyes to new possibilities…
Convinced she is destined for greater things, Trudy Crandall skips her debutante season in lieu of attending the Boston School of Nursing. When her family pressures her to enter an arranged marriage following her graduation, she pleads with the Boomtown Mail Order Brides Company to help her take control of her destiny. To her surprise, they claim to have the perfect groom in mind to make all her wishes come true!
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Tenacious Trudy is book 10 in the Mail Order Bride’s Rescue Series. A wonderfully written mail order bride story. It has all the components to make this story both suspenseful and entertaining. Dr. Jude was not wanting to get married, however, the matchmaker let him read the letter Trudy wrote for her groom and it changed Dr. Jude’s mind about marriage immediately. The fact that Dr. Jude came from Boston and had actually met Trudy at a party in Boston before coming to Arizona was a bonus. When she recognized him they had things that they could talk about concerning life in Boston. He had encouraged Trudy to go to nursing school which was against what her parents wanted for her. Trudy left without telling her parents to avoid marrying the man her parents had picked for her. When Dr. Jude found out in the letter she had followed through with nursing school, it was a home run in his mind. When Trudy accepted his proposal, they were both set out for a happy life working together and helping those in need.
Welcome to the delightful tale of one handsome, organized doctor, Rory Judge, one irritating nurse, Mamie, who drove him crazy and the town of Headstone, Arizona, where he still felt an outsider to even after six months. Then it seemed fate stepped in when a Mail Order Bride office opened right next door and he talked to Colt and Belinda as they went to go to dinner. It happened, one Trudy Crandall was on her way to town from Boston to hopefully find a job as a nurse and a husband.
Trudy had escaped her parents that had a man picked out for her to marry who would not let her practice her profession that she had just earned from nursing school. So she had applied to be a mail order bride hoping she could get a job and someone who would allow her to do her work.
Well, she was in for a wonderful surprise as Dr Rory met her at the train!
I love Jo’s stories! Filled with humor, wonderful characters who you related to and always a little wonderful journey to the end. She makes me want to be one of her characters and be going out west for a new adventure! Simply lovely!
Mail orders brides. Sweet book. Always enjoy Jo Grafford books. They are light hearted with just a little excitement and Nurse Mamie is quite a character. Very Good book
What a delightful little book to read. It was very entertaining and interesting. I really enjoyed it.
I did receive an advanced copy of the book and the review is mine voluntarily.
I really enjoyed reading this book! I think this is one of the best mail order bride books that I have read! I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read romance books!
I have enjoyed all of the books in this series and each one just gets better! Rory, the groom, couldn’t imagine himself getting a mail order bride but he was tired of all his friends being married and having “someone to come home to”. He is a frontier doctor who grew up wealthy back east but didn’t fit in with that lifestyle so headed west. His nurse is hilarious! She is a “thorn in his side”!!! I certainly wouldn’t have wanted her to help me when I was ailing!!! As Rory talks to his friend, Colt, who is the owner of the Mail Order Bride business, he finds out there is a woman coming to town that is a nurse! He sees his chance to replace his current nurse! He can’t believe it’s woman he met once back east! Trudy turns out to be just what he has always wanted in a wife AND a nurse! The two of the are so well-suited and I really enjoyed their story!
So good! Loved getting to see the fine Doctor find a nurse and wife through Trudy. It was a fun story with a little danger in the mix. I read in two sittings. If you like clean mail-order bride stories, you can’t go wrong with ‘Tenacious Trudy’. I received this book from the publisher. The thoughts and comments are my own.
This is one of those stories that you will be thinking about weeks after you finish reading it. It is a fun book with great characters. It is Trudy and Rory’s story both who have much to overcome if they are to reach a HEA. Then there is grumpy Nurse Mamie who will keep you laughing. The story has lots of action and is a real page turner. I really enjoyed this story and highly recommend it.
Trudy and Rory come from wealthy families who want to control their lives. Rory goes west to establish his practice there. He wants to replace his cantankerous nurse, but when Trudy steps off the train, he realizes he wants a wife as well. An accident at the church results in them getting married immediately. Then a double shooting at a ranch outside of town give them some scary moments, but all’s well that ends well, and they have a happy ever after. Great story
Love Trudy and Rory’s story!! They’d met once, a few years ago. Now, Rory’s making a new home for himself, and Trudy wants the chance to do the same. When her parents chose a different path for her, she makes her own. Now, she meets Rory and finds he’s available. Sparks fly when they get together!!
I received a complimentary copy of this book, was not required to leave a review, and the opinion expressed is my own.