2-1/2 stars.

Decent novel for this sort of thing. The story moved rather too fast. Much more time was given to the hero's grief for his dead wife and almost none for her grief over her dead husband and baby. I mean there was an almost creepy lack of grieving on her part. Fault of the author really. There were a few other things that bothered me. Biscuits are not made with yeast and yet the heroine was supposedly making them or failing to make them over and over again with yeast. Sloppy research makes sloppy writing.

This was domestic discipline and the set up with two people who didn't understand each others language but who were forced by circumstances to marry was an interesting one. The spankings were worked in fairly reasonably but the heroine was forced to be a bit of a hot tempered ninny to get all the spankings in that the author wanted to write about.

Still fairly good for its genre. ( )