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Ruby's Risk

Westward Home and Hearts Mail-Order Brides, Book 2

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A man might homestead, but it takes a woman to turn that place into a home! This matchmaker will settle the West one couple at a time.

Under suspicion after his wife’s murder, Elias Kline knows he has to leave Mills Bluff. Learning a lynch mob is planning to kill him, he slips away from town. Taking only his smithy tools and his young son, he chooses a new name — Ezra King. Heading west seems a fine way to start over, but he’ll need a wife to raise his son and cook his meals. One sent by an agency shouldn’t expect love, he decides.

A matchmaker convinces lonely Ruby Hastings to take a risk on Ezra King. After all, the man is helping fulfill the nation's destiny of settling the west. Reading the man’s letter, Ruby aches for the widower's little boy and seizes on this chance to be a mama to him. After all, with a brother on the run from the law and a newly married sister, her siblings no longer need Ruby and this motherless boy does.

It should be a convenient arrangement. What happens when the mail-order wife begins to push past the walls guarding Elias’s heart, challenging him spiritually and emotionally? When danger follows him from Mills Bluff, will Elias be able to keep his family together?

©2019 Marisa Masterson (P)2020 Marisa Masterson Romance Western Romance Westerns Marriage Heartfelt
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Two strangers on the run, each of them with a young child and trying to keep them safe. This is what Ruby and Elias find themselves committed to as they meet and slowly fall in love after being brought together by a Matchmaker.
This is a tender love story written with warmth and caring about some very special characters. There is a good level of excitement and adventure with evil doers written in as well but good wins over bad so there is a very welcome happy ever after in the end.
I am happy to say that I have found another author whose writings I admire and would be happy to read or listen to more of her books.
I enjoyed the narration by Caroline Turner Cole, also a new artiste to me and also someone I would happily listen to again.
I listened to the audiobook version of this story and my voluntary and unbiased review of it is recorded above.

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