But I don’t think there’s such moments for Hannah and Jericho.

While I don’t believe in love at first sight, I do believe that there is a moment when you realize you are attracted to someone, hence the concept. T., as he’s known, immediately butt heads over the value of beauty in a Godly life, but their conflict is soon complicated by economics, matchmaking, and, of course, their growing attraction to one another. Richards is eager to bring a little beauty to the town, but Jericho Tucker, the livery owner across the way, thinks Hannah is bringing the temptation of vanity instead.

(Which is why the heteronormativity bugs so much my view of the universe involves telling it to kindly go die in a fire.) A Tailor-Made Bride sounded cute, and then it was free on Amazon.Ī Tailor-Made Bride is set in 1881, when dressmaker Hannah Richards opens her own store-a long-time dream of hers-in Coventry, Texas.

(Not that I don’t run into it in other places.) But I do appreciate the light, fluffy, and honest quality of a lot of material marketed as such it’s comforting to know that your leads will end up together in a story that won’t challenge your view of the universe. I tend to prefer my romances as subplots to a greater story they seem more organic that way, and tend to avoid the cripplingly annoying heteronormativity that seems to place itself about shin height every time I open a book that markets itself as mainly romance.

A Tailor-Made Bride by Karen Witemeyer