A Bride Most Begrudging by Deanne Gist

While on a trip with my sister-in-laws this past weekend I finished the one book I had and had to borrow this book from my sister-in-law so I had something to read. I'm always a little hesitant to read romance looking books since some are decent and some are just annoying. I enjoy a romance novel now and then and am glad I got to read this book. Hopefully other Deanne Gist books are just as good as this book.

Constance is a noblemans daughter from England who finds herself kidnapped and sold as a bride-to-be in the Americas. Of course no one believes who she is since most bride-to-be's are prisoners from England sent to America to carry out their sentence. Drew is a hard w0rking farmer planning to make his place into a plantation and is in town to buy servants to help him and retreive the bride-to-be that his brother has brought for him. Drew wins Constance in a poker game and finds himself with two brides. Of course the counselman are not happy about this and forces Drew to marry on of them. Mary, the other bride, is actually married and so Constance and Drew find themselves married. Of course they find themselves falling in love as the story goes but each struggles with their own doubts about the others true happiness since Constance knows nothing about working and Drew doesn't believe a noblewoman would want to stay. It doesn't have just sappy romance the entire time, but has the settlers fighting Indians, overcoming sickness, and trying to not get too embarrassed at a Christmas dinner.