The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride

In book one in the Cowboys of Chance Creek series, rancher Ethan Cruz and his three best friends go to the airport to pick up Ethan’s bride-to-be. He doesn’t want to her marry her, but since his friends have played a practical joke on him, he now has to deal with a city gal coming to his small Montana town. Fortunately for him, his plans to put her on the next plane back to New York fall apart when he sees her.
Autumn Leeds needs to write a snarky, scathing exposé for her women’s magazine, or she’ll lose her job and be nothing but a failure in her mother’s eyes. So after she sees a video about a lonely, drunk cowboy wanting a sweet, quiet, hardworking wife, she creates a fake persona and responds to his video with one of her show more own. After all, what could be a hotter story than digging deep into a stranger’s personal life and exposing his need for an email-order bride?
I love this story! Ethan and Autumn are wonderfully flawed characters. They’ve both suffered loss, which has shaped them into the people they are. Despite their trust issues and all the lies building between them, they fall into bed and into love. Their romance happened fast, but it was definitely believable.
The secondary characters are great, especially poor Rob. His friendship with Ethan is strong and solid, but they definitely have a bit of love/hate going on.
I’m definitely interested in the next book, which features Ethan’s sister, Claire, and his friend Jamie.
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Ugh. Not nearly as good as I was expecting, having just read her The Navy SEAL's E-Mail Order Bride. Ethan is rather limp, Autumn is seriously limp, uncontrolled lust is the major thing holding them together. And then there's the secrets. Really, Autumn? Really? After the whole secrets-and-lies reveal where you ran away, you decide Ethan doesn't need to know _your_ secret? Sheesh. And then the deus ex machina of her note to...herself? Her mother? Just why did she write that? And magically everything comes right - Ethan believes her, Lacey comes straight, HEA. Ugh. I'll try the other book I have in the series - maybe this was her first? But this one really doesn't work for me. The other one of hers I've read was good, so I'm willing to show more try again. I will not reread this one, though. show less

This was a lovely sweet read basically, it's the old mail order bride story with a few twists, as in the bride and groom both had a hidden agenda and were keeping secrets, We have Ethan the Montana cowboy and Autumn the reporter from the big bad city, a bunch of well-meaning friends and a bitch of an ex. all the ingredients for a mills and boon type novel (and I don't mean that in a derogatory way I actually like Mills & boon). I found myself smiling a lot and rooting like a cheerleader for our featured twosome, yay just give them a happy ending. this was a hearts and flowers instant love kind of story AW!

Title: The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride
Author: Cora Seton
Publisher: One Acre Press
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Series: The Cowboy of Chance Creek #1
Rating: 4.5
Review:

"The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride" by Cora Seton was a well written told story of a cowboy and woman who weren't actually looking for love but did find it. The author presented the reader with such a story that will keep you turning the pages with all its twist and turns. I found myself all caught up with the characters because they were all indeed all well developed, real, believable, humorous, colorful, even some with flaws by the end the reader will gets a down right good read that I wasn't able to put down until the end. This author really did a good job and knows how to show more present a story that will have you on the edge of your seat only wanting more of seeing how these two people manage to find a love based on lies. This author did a wonderful job especially at the end of the read of how the reader will be able to get another feel of the ex-girlfriend. I never saw that one coming! I am not perfectly sure that I liked how 'the friends' brought this all upon their friend Ethan, with this practical joke.... only trying to help him out, however in the end when it all came out....and this is where I will say you will have to pick up "The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride" to see how this author will bring it all out to the reader.

I found this novel a delightful romantic erotic western read that was on a journey and in the end after everything is brought out will they find the happiness and love they both needed? Since this is a series I can't wait to get the next novel...The Cowboy Wins A Bride by this author. show less

It was a bit difficult for me to get into this novel. Don't get me wrong, the concept of updating the mail order bride of the historical novels into the 21 century by using the e-mail and Youtube was interesting and somewhat fresh. What I did not like is the fact that both of these people are perpetuating lies. I understand that the stores wouldn't have gone anywhere if it weren't for that ploy, but I think I would have been less disgruntled if perhaps only one of them were lying.

There is a bit of character growth, but not as much as I would have thought given the subject matter. For the first quarter of the book, there is a ton of inner-dialogue and very little interaction between Ethan and Autumn (unless you count the sex they had a show more few hours after meeting?). There is more inner-dialoguing throughout the rest of the novel, but the characters finally DO start interacting, however they still are not telling the whole truth.

Several aspects really riled me up ------------------------>SPOILERISH show less

Can a relationship be built on a practical joke? For Ethan Cruz the answer is yes! This is a charming 21st century twist on a mail order bride. The story is funny, quirky, and sweet. It begins with Ethan being hauled to the air port by his buddies to pick up his bride. Ethan refuses to believe the set up until Autumn actually steps of the plane.

Autumn’s mom has trained her to be pretty much a “man hater” so when the opportunity arises to trick one and write a story for her magazine she is all on board – that is until he meets him.

The characters in the book are awesome. Cora Seton did an excellent job forming the close relationships of Ethan and his friends. She also created a beautiful love story with some cute quirkiness. If show more you love cowboys you will love Ethan Cruz he is rough and tough down to his bones. He works hard and loves even harder. Autumn is trying to make her mom proud, until she realizes making her mom happy is not truly making her happy. Loved it can’t wait for book 2 in the Cowboy’s of Chance Creek series.

RATING: 4

HEAT RATING: Mild

REVIEWED BY: A. Lyn

REVIEW COURTESY OF: My Book Addiction and More show less

I requested Email order bride as the premise of an updated Mail-order bride story intrigued me. Oh and it had cowboys in it. I like Cowboys. Unfortunately, this one wasn’t for me and I ended up marking it as DNF about 60% of the way through. I hate not finishing a book but I just couldn’t bring myself to carry on with it. The lie’s were forgiven too easily (even though they were quite large) and shrugged off with “well I did lie to you” and the plot devices used left me with a feeling that a HEA was inevitable no matter what. I wasn’t enjoying the predictability of it all and both characters left a bad taste in my mouth; I wasn’t sure I wanted them to get there HEA after the perpetual lies that they based their initial show more relationship on.

There are a LOT of good reviews for this one. I would never urge anyone not to try a book and this one is currently free on All Romance, The writing is very fluid and the formatting was very good; it was the story-line that wasn’t for me and, as they say, your kink is not my kink J show less