Ruby's Risk

Westward Home and Hearts Mail-Order Brides, Book 2

By: Marisa Masterson

Narrated by: Caroline Turner Cole

A man might homestead, but it takes a woman to turn that place into a home! This matchmaker will settle the West one couple at a time.

Under suspicion after his wife’s murder, Elias Kline knows he has to leave Mills Bluff. Learning a lynch mob is planning to kill him, he slips away from town. Taking only his smithy tools and his young son, he chooses a new name — Ezra King. Heading west seems a fine way to start over, but he’ll need a wife to raise his son and cook his meals. One sent by an agency shouldn’t expect love, he decides.

A matchmaker convinces lonely Ruby Hastings to take a risk on Ezra King. After all, the man is helping fulfill the nation's destiny of settling the west. Reading the man’s letter, Ruby aches for the widower's little boy and seizes on this chance to be a mama to him. After all, with a brother on the run from the law and a newly married sister, her siblings no longer need Ruby and this motherless boy does.

It should be a convenient arrangement. What happens when the mail-order wife begins to push past the walls guarding Elias’s heart, challenging him spiritually and emotionally? When danger follows him from Mills Bluff, will Elias be able to keep his family together?

©2019 Marisa Masterson (P)2020 Marisa Masterson

Romance, Action and Great Characters

I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed the narrator and the story. I could just picture the bride and groom meeting and the trip west. Rest assured there is going to be trouble when someone wants the son of Elias (Ezra). I loved Ruby and her characterization. She was kind and took care of her siblings taking no thought of herself until she raised all of them.
Romance, action and great characters, that’s what makes a great book!
I received a free audiobook but was not required to write a positive review. All opinions are my own.

Fantastic

Loved this book! Hard to stop listening to from the first words. The mystery mixed in with the romance was wonderful.

Wonderful!

A story of loss and love found with a little mystery along the way. I love stories on settling in the west and mail order brides so this was perfect!

Being accused of murdering his wife, Elias takes off with his young son to fiind a new place to settle far from his accusers. But he knows he needs a wife to take care of his son and hone and sends off a mail order bride. Plus she would not expect love which he knew after his first wife, he might never feel again.

Ruby is lonely. Her sister is married and her brother is on the run. She hopes by answering the ad she can be a mother to Ezra’s son. Right before she begins her trip to marry, she is left with a surprise. .

A journey of unexpected trials and joy that warms the heart. The narrator Caroline Cole did a wonderful job and I did not want it to end!

Well done!

I so enjoyed Ruby and Elias’ story. Such a sweet romance. The characters were well developed and, even though the story is short, I fell in love with the main characters. The tension was good, so the story kept my interest.

The author did a great job with writing this novella and the narrator did a great job with the audiobook.

Exciting

This was a sweet clean historical western romance with plenty of excitement to go around! I loved how the main characters grew throughout the story and how all of the loose ends were taken care of.