A Bride for Noah (Brides of Broken Arrow) by Cheryl Wright – Review by Tara Johnson Barnes

A Bride for Noah by Cheryl Wright
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Since the young age of 21, Noah has been working the land that his father gifted to him on his birthday. When his father suddenly passes away Noah learns that there are conditions that come with this gift of the land. He is horrified to discover that he has mere weeks to not only find a woman but marry her or the land will be given to his brother instead. Noah is mortified and is justifiably angry at his father’s actions. He can’t believe his father has done this to him. There are no women available where he lives, so how does his father expect him to suddenly get married?

Mary is a young woman living with her father. Mary has been doing her best to make ends meet and to feed her and her father on the meager income that he is able to bring in from his pig farming. Unfortunately, the money seems to be few and far between and he has more love for his pigs than he does for his own daughter. Mary makes the best of the situation, and she stretches the meals and goes without eating so her father can eat instead. Then suddenly her father comes to her and tells her that he has planned for her to be married to a most horrific man that Mary had an unfortunate incident with in the past. A man that Mary does not want to be with and who will not treat her well. So, when Mary is approached by a member of her church and offered a chance at a proxy marriage to a man she does not know and has never met she figures this might be the best chance that she has of getting out of the horrible situation that she is currently in.

When Mary and Noah meet, they go into a marriage of convenience. Neither expects anything else out of the other. Noah only expects to keep his land. Mary only expects to make it through the marriage for the term that the contract stimulated and start over new afterwards. What neither expected was to start having feelings for the other which leads to confusion. Neither Noah nor Mary seem willing to broach the subject or talk to the other about their feelings for fear of rejection. What will become of Mary and Noah? Will they discover that they are better off without each other? Will they fall in love?

The characters of Noah and Mary were wholesome, down-to-earth, and hard-working. Mary made the best of any situation that she was put into and only wanted to make those around her happy. She was strong-willed and hard-working with a heart of gold. It was heart-wrenching to know how poorly Mary had been treated by her father and how much she had missed out on in life. Noah wanted to do everything he could to give Mary a better life. He was a hard worker and cared deeply about his family and those he loved. This book was a wholesome read full of love, and the support of family. It was full of wholesome scenes, strong morals, and wonderful characters.

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