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Book Review: Montana Marine by Debra Parmley

RATING: 3 out of 5 Stars

MONTANA MARINE by Debra Parmley is a contemporary Romantic suspense novella set in the Brotherhood Protectors Kindle World. This novella is heavier on the suspense and intrigue plot while more on the sweet side romantically than other stories in the Brotherhood Protectors series.

Lucy Wood is hoping to only work for her demanding boss, Angelica Glory until she gets a job designing costumes in Hollywood. When Lucy starts receiving personal gifts from an unknown person, Lucy and Angelica are shipped out to an isolated ranch in Montana for protection.

Retired Marine Recon Gunnery Sergeant Jack Barr has retired from the service. He gets a job offer from the Brotherhood Protectors security service in Montana as a bodyguard for a pampered, spoiled Hollywood bombshell, Angelica Glory. Jack may appreciate Angelica’s looks, but he is captivated by the shy and tiny assistant. As their attraction grows, so does the obsession of the stalker to collect the woman of his dreams.

Jack and Lucy are very cute together, the big, alpha Marine and the shy, tiny assistant. The dialogue flows realistically and the romance is well written for the time constraints. The plot does have a nice little twist at the climax, but it was easy to guess. Though predictable, this is an enjoyable and fast read if you want a novella on the sweeter side from the Brotherhood Protectors series.

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Book Review: Isabella: Bride of Ohio by Debra Parmley and Robert Arrow

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RATING: 4 out of 5 Stars

ISABELLA: BRIDE OF OHIO (American Mail-Order Brides Series, #17) by Debra Parmley is part of an interesting writing project. Fifty authors are writing a fifty book American Mail-Order Bride series that releases one book a day for fifty days.

Isabella Britta Stolt arrives from Sweden with her parents only to have them quarantined on Ellis Island and die. On her own at seventeen, she hears of work in a factory in Massachusetts. It is long and tiring work, but she has a roommate from Sweden and a few friends. Then the factory burns down. Luckily Isabella and her friends make it out alive, but now they must all make decisions for their futures.

A mail-order bride paper is passed around the factory girls and they decide to try their luck with the gentlemen they find to write to. Isabella writes to Donald Jenks, who seems to be a successful accountant in Yellow Springs, OH looking for a wife. His description of his home and life is everything a future bride would want, so she begins her journey to Ohio.

On the train to Ohio, Isabella meets two men; one who will try to kidnap her and one who will save her more than once. Thomas “Tom” Allenby is an undercover Pinkerton man working a case of missing women from the train. He is instantly taken with Isabella and comes to her rescue. He knows she is taken, but he will cross paths with her again in her future home.

This is not the typical mail-order bride romance where they live happily ever after. This groom is not who he seems and the story takes a major twist. There is a forced sex scene, but it is mostly described and not played out in present time description. Isabella is a woman of her time with few choices, but she has the resilience and strength to always move forward. I loved Isabella and was so glad she got the HEA she deserved in the end.

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