A Reliable Wife

Oh the irony in posting about this book tonight.  If I may direct your attention to the timestamp, it is currently 12:50 on a school night.  What I am still doing up on a school night?  Well, Tim is sick, and I'm trying to be much like the title of my post...

Anywho, I finished this book early last week and it was just meh.  Okay.  Nothing to really brag about.  A wealthy man who lives in a very small town decides to post an advertisement looking for "a reliable wife."  I should probably also mention that this takes place during horse and buggy times.  A woman responds and he ends up marrying her.  Well, as one would suspect, this doesn't go very well for him.  There's an estranged illegitimate son from his first marriage, lots of opium, a bit of arsenic, and even a maid and a butler.  On a scale of 1-5, I'd give it about a 3.  I kept hoping that the author would just take things a bit further... Oh well.