Mail Order Mystery

Name: Mail Order Mystery
Rating: 4.449799060821533 (249 reviews)

Cynthia Woolf

Dec 2017 · Brides of Seattle Book 1 · Firehouse Publishing

4.4

249 reviews

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Civil war devastated the country and left Rachel Sawyer stranded in a dead-end job as a seamstress with no prospects for marriage. Men are thin on the ground in Massachusetts, so Rachel and her best friend travel west, to Seattle, with the handsome Talbot brothers. Jason Talbot, the eldest brother and wealthy owner of a lumber company, is so far beyond her reach that falling in love with him is the most non-sensical thing she could do. So, of course, she does. But after one sensual midnight encounter, Jason pushes her away.

Jason Talbot and his brothers are desperate to keep their lumberjack crews happy. And if that means traveling across the country to escort a hundred women to Seattle as mail-order brides, that's what he'll do. The brides are for other men. After losing his wife ten years ago, he's not interested in risking another devastating blow to his heart. When Rachel catches his eye, his head and his heart are at war, and he's not sure which side will win.

But when a thief springs up in their midst, and Rachel's determination to solve the mystery leads to murder, Jason realizes he'll do anything, not just to protect her from a killer, but to win her heart.

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4.4

249 reviews

M Nguyen

October 30, 2020

I'm only in the first Chapter and the lack of proper punctuation and period-appropriate speech takes me right out of the story. It seems that the author has more interest in describing everyone's looks than setting the proper tone. I don't know if I can finish this book. There are so many missing commas that it is difficult to focus on the story. I hope this improves soon. I'll update my rating to a higher one if the text improves. Update: this is truly untenable. I cannot finish this book. I've read books by this author before that she clearly wrote well and took time to write. This isn't one of them. It doesn't develop the story. The scenes are written as if there were twenty pages ripped out in between with no explanation. What a waste of this author. She is capable of better.

Valeta Bridgewater

December 20, 2019

Some of Ms Woolf's historical romances are fabulous, but not this one. She glosses over details to make this another mediocre romance. She has done much better writing; I expected better.

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Saman Waseem

October 13, 2023

dreadfully boring. would never recommend it. no development of story, just some random incidents happening one after the other . quite out of depth.

About the author

Cynthia Woolf is the award winning and best-selling author of thirty-one historical western romance books and two short stories with more books on the way.

Cynthia loves writing and reading romance. Her first western romance Tame A Wild Heart, was inspired by the story her mother told her of meeting Cynthia’s father on a ranch in Creede, Colorado. Although Tame A Wild Heart takes place in Creede that is the only similarity between the stories. Her father was a cowboy not a bounty hunter and her mother was a nursemaid (called a nanny now) not the ranch owner. The ranch they met on is still there as part of the open space in Mineral County in southwestern Colorado.

Writing as CA Woolf she has six scifi, space opera romance titles. She calls them westerns in space.

Cynthia credits her wonderfully supportive husband Jim and her great friends and critique partners for saving her sanity and allowing her to explore her creativity.

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