Julia O’Brien is a practical woman. A nurse and midwife, she was perhaps the most surprised when she fell in love with Dr. Matthew Reynolds and agreed to be his mail order bride. She sets off for Tombstone carrying his letters and a heart full of hope.
Dr. Matthew Reynolds didn’t want a wife, and is shocked when Julia arrives on his door step with a marriage license bearing his signature. He discovers that his grandfather has wooed the young woman without his knowledge, and made promises in his name without permission. An annulment seems to be the easy answer, but Julia has nowhere to go. Now, his unwanted wife is sleeping in his house, working with him at his clinic, and generally driving him to distraction.
When a call comes in from a desperate young mother, Julia handles the call alone. The young woman gives birth to a beautiful baby girl, but does not survive childbirth. Suddenly, Matthew is faced with a new choice, not only does he have a beautiful and caring wife, but a precious new daughter to fill his empty life. But Julia is not willing to accept less than his whole heart, and when the young infant’s father attempts to steal her away, Matthew will have to move heaven and earth to convince the woman he has grown to love that he can be what she needs.
MY REVIEW:
How many of you have someone
who loves you say, “I did it for your own good.” When in reality you’re thinking no you did it
for yours. Yet, in some cases it can
ring true especially if you are the type of person who could not get out of his
own way due to fear. Enter Dr. Matthew
Reynolds. So Walt his grandfather, who
raised him and his 3 brothers, decided to take matters into his own hands.
Turns out Walt was acting on Matt’s behalf
by getting and marrying by proxy a woman from New York, Julia O’Brien. She was the closes thing to perfect for
Matt. As they wrote each other back and
forth over 6 months he found out that not only did she want to be married and
have children which to Walt was important, but she was a nurse and midwife. So she wanted to help Matt out at the office
plus start her own clinic for women. Not
to mention over the course of the 6 months she had fallen in love already.
Well, wasn’t she in for a surprise? For when she arrived no one was there to meet
her. Then since she had taken the coach
with Ben a wealthy businessman and friend of Matt’s she asked his
assistance. When Walt all of a sudden
showed up saying Matt was out on a call and he would be taking her to his home
for him to help get her settled. He
takes her to the house/clinic where after unpacking she falls asleep. When Matt comes home to find her asleep on
his bed late at night he is not happy.
Matt is pissed at Walt and feels cornered like an animal.
She explains the whole story as she knows
it. He says he will get it annulled and
she says fine but that he will have to pay to have her stay at the hotel until
she finds a job and housing that she can afford once she finds a job. He is not too happy about that for it can get
expensive she says not her problem he signed he pays not her problem he didn’t
read what he signed. She says or you can
rent me the spare bedroom, I see patients, and help at the office organizing
you and get 25% or your pay. That’s how
they started negotiations to see if he would like her and keep her.
At some point I found myself saying, “Enough
Matt Out!” Then Julia was just sassy enough as a character to get me to keep
reading. Other than that…I give this 4
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