These conversations lead to intimacy, and intimacy leads to desire.
On the contrary, as all their secrets begin to surface in a well-timed progressive manner, each holds back but slowly reveals hidden depths to the other that strengthens what began as a fragile connection. And yes, they have issues to work through, but what I loved about this pair is that they are both hopeful and still believe that they can find happiness. It all begins with conversations and questions that each answers with as much honesty as they allow themselves.īoth Jane and Morgan led a hellish sort of life before meeting. In this novel, Goodman utilizes the mail-order bride trope to build the romance between Jane and Morgan, and she does it so well! Jane and Morgan are both direct, plain-spoken people who, as most of us tend to do, put their best foot forward while corresponding, but once they meet face to face, begin building a relationship by taking tentative steps. But once they do marry, unshared secrets and unexpected revelations about their mutual pasts may ruin all hopes for a happy future. Having burned all bridges behind her, Jane is determined to prove him wrong - she is confident in her strength and the knowledge that she can be Morgan's perfect wife. Her beauty and delicate appearance, however, shock him into doubting that she is the right woman for him. Morgan is ready to propose when he finally meets Jane at the train station. Having survived a rough, shady past, Morgan Longstreet is finally making a go of the Morning Star cattle ranch with the help of four hired hands, but he also needs a strong wife to help with work and hopefully be there for him through the good and the bad. After exchanging letters and photographs, Jane works on an escape plan and takes a train West.
She finds her way out by answering an ad for a mail-order bride from Morgan Longstreet, a rancher from Bitter Springs, Wyoming. Jane Middlebourne is an orphan whose wealthy New York family rejected since childhood and barely tolerate as an adult. Thankfully, with In Want of a Wifethe third book of her Bitter Springs western historical series, Jo Goodman returns to the kind of romance I've come to expect from her. I absolutely loved The Last Renegade, but was not crazy about True to the Law.
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