Rating:  Summary: If you like a slightly different setting... Review: Then perhaps The Bonny Bride is for you! As you can probably guess from the title, it begins in Scotland where Jenny Lennox, a mail order bride waits for a ship to take her across the Atlantic to the New Brunswick colony. When Jenny's travelling companions fail to arrive, she must find a new escort at short notice. So desperate is Jenny to escape the drudgery of her father's small farm, she'll even accept Harris Chisholm, the most notoriously unsociable man in Dalbeattie, as her bodyguard. Harris agrees to deliver Jenny safe to her waiting bridegroom, but before long he begins to wonder if he can willingly surrender Jenny to any other man.
Rating:  Summary: Deborah Hale at her finest. Review: We have come to expect the best from Deborah and she never disappoints. Not the usual hero, it doesn't take us long to see why Jenny can't help but fall in love with Harris. When Harris finally takes her down from the pedestal he placed her on, he finds life will not be complete without her.Ms. Hales characters come alive on the page. Her description is weaved in so beautifully that we find outselves wanting to go where they've been to see for ourselves. Another book for your keeper shelf and a definite 5+.
Rating:  Summary: Deborah Hale at her finest. Review: We have come to expect the best from Deborah and she never disappoints. Not the usual hero, it doesn't take us long to see why Jenny can't help but fall in love with Harris. When Harris finally takes her down from the pedestal he placed her on, he finds life will not be complete without her. Ms. Hales characters come alive on the page. Her description is weaved in so beautifully that we find outselves wanting to go where they've been to see for ourselves. Another book for your keeper shelf and a definite 5+.
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