Mail-Order Bride Secret (Montana Mail-Order Brides Book 5) Linda Ford Rating: * * * A lot of the romance novels I’ve read over the past year or two have disappointed me. Partly, that’s because I tend to read books that don’t cost a lot. Seriously, paying $9.99 for a light romance novel that will take less than a week to read just rubs me the wrong way, but charging that much doesn’t bother traditional publishers at all. And so I read a lot of free and discounted indie books.