Very insta love, but I didn't mind that much? I just had such a lovely time reading this. The marriage of convenience, sorta mail-order bride vibes were really good. In the latter half, Alex, our completely swoon-worthy butch love interest, spoils her and treats her wonderfully, and it made me smile so much. Most of that has to do with the fact that a lot of this book is about Mary, our young pregnant woman, finally being treated with respect and reverence after being under the thumb of her mother for most of her life. But soon, I just settled into the atmosphere and setting and I started to really enjoy myself.

I'm also not the biggest fan of pregnancy stories. Those kinds of storylines in historical settings can be pretty hit or miss for me.

This town has built a society where everyone is accepting, there's almost no homophobia despite the time period, and our main characters are able to fix things so that they can get married and live quite openly. At first, it was really too low-conflict for me, and I thought that that would spoil the romance and the book on the whole. This is a super low-conflict historical romance between a young pregnant woman who needs to get married and an up-and-coming farmer in a recently founded, very diverse and accepting town. “Then you are mine,” Alex finished for her.ģ.5 stars. “I mean-ah, I am your wife, so it is, well, I mean if I am a lady then-” Note : Leather and Lace has a bit of mail-order, arranged married, kind of secret baby with some foreced proximity sprinkled on top!

It includes a passionate and romantic f/f love in a town where diversity, and love, reign supreme. Leather and Lace is a 35k word novella set at the same time as the events of book 2, Hearth and Home. Because in Gold Sky, Montana there are many ways to be married.and not all of them include a man. Mary needs to be married and Alex has a solution. Still, Alex didn't expect to be so floored by the sight of the firey haired, yet fragile looking young woman.

Gold Sky is accepting of all types of love, and that between women is no different. Alex Pierce is strong, intriguing, looks stunning in a pair of trousers.and a woman. But all her plans are derailed when she spots the most beautiful person she's ever seen across the town square. Her mother's prejudices and sharp tongue aren't helping matters and Mary, to her shame, hasn't behaved much better. She needs to find a man to marry before her condition becomes.obvious. Striking out in spectacular fashion after setting her eye on Julian Baptiste, her options are dwindling, and time is running out. Mary Sophia James came to Gold Sky, Montana to find a husband at the insistence of her overbearing mother.

Leather and Lace by Rebel Carter