Review: A Bride of Convenience

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Unemployed mill worker Zoe Hart jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being accused of a crime. 

Pastor to miners in the mountains, Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned baby during a routine visit to Victoria and joins efforts with Zoe, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women, to care for the infant. While there, he's devastated by the news from his fiancee in England that she's marrying another man.

With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, Zoe accepts a proposal from a miner of questionable character after he promises to help her locate her brother. Intent on protecting Zoe and frustrated by his failed engagement, Abe offers his own hand as groom. After a hasty wedding, they soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all.

Genre: historical romance

Publication date: June 2020

Mature content: no

Review: A Bride of Convenience is book 3 in the Bride Ships series and it may be the best of the three, in my opinion.

 

Of the two main characters, my preference goes to Zoe - she tackles everything that needs to be done with courage and determination. Abe, while being a man of God, made me want to smack him in the head more than a few times throughout the book. 

The overall message, though, is strong and beautiful. God has designs for all of us. They may not be clear to us, we may even struggle against them, but in the end His will prevails and everything will be as it's meant to be. 

You don't need to read the previous two books, A Bride of Convenience can be perfectly read as a stand alone, but my advice is that you do read them, because they are just wonderful too.

 Happy readings!