![]() ![]() It took me about a minute to fall in love with author Jo Goodman’s talent. Once again, her meticulous research, signature eye for the telling detail, and ear for humor in a desperate time shine. In Want of a Wife by Jo Goodman Series: Bitter Springs, Book 4 Category: Western Historical Romance Publisher: Berkley (May 6, 2014) ISBN: 978-0425264171 Rated 5 Stars + Recommended Read Format Read: PRINT. Goodman’s fans will be thrilled with this newest story, a solid romance which achingly depicts, in her laconic style, the unsettling beginnings of a mail-order marriage. Despite those glitches, they manage to get along and come together, each appreciating the other’s frankness and dry sense of humor, until Morgan’s long-forgotten brothers threaten to bring past trouble into the present. Her first surprises are his ginger hair and his tight-lipped attitude about his family he is surprised by how she doesn’t look anything like the picture she sent, a picture her cousin surreptitiously substituted in Jane’s letter to him. ![]() When red-haired rancher Morgan Longstreet advertises back east for a wife, Jane Middlebourne, the unwanted, orphaned relative of a wealthy family in New York City, agrees to marry him. My Booklist review:Goodman’s (True to the Law, 2013) latest Bitter Springs, Wyoming, romance delves into family bonds in the Old West. ![]()
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