Boaz's Wager
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4.3 • 225 Ratings
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Publisher Description
What Boaz Grady wants more than anything else is to have his children living with him. But in order to get them back, he needs to marry a woman who’ll be their mother.
Eva Connealy left Omaha, Nebraska to be a school teacher. While in Montana, her stagecoach is attacked, and the men decide to sell her. While the men in Lewistown post bids for her, Boaz makes a wager of his own and wins the right to marry her.
Despite the shaky beginning, Boaz is sure she’ll adjust to her new life as his children’s mother. But she wants to be more than a mother. She also wants to be a wife and vows to figure out how to take their marriage of convenience into something much, much more.
Customer Reviews
Lots of romance and exciting plot is what this book is about,
Two girls on their way from Omaha to Montana, one as a Mail order bride and the other to be a new school teacher, are kidnapped off a stage and put up for sale in a nearby town. Two friends buy the girls and this sets off two different romantic stories joined by friendship.
Nice basic plot idea, but weak execution
This book was hard to get through. Writing dialogue doesn’t always mean typing exactly what someone might say (with run on sentences and little punctuation). Aspects of the plot didn’t quite make sense, and there were details that were never explained. Boaz was afraid of the mayor; Eva was a teacher, but didn’t know how to speak to children. It just didn’t work that no one seemed to care that the stagecoach was robbed, two ladies were kidnapped, sold, and “forced” to marry. The rest of the book was basically about Eva and Boaz deciding to have a “real” marriage.