Series going downhill

This book sees Elly being even more of a weak-willed-wimp than ever - she allows Dutch and Candice to coerce her into accepting a gun as a wedding gift and agreeing to practice with it at the shooting range - they COERCE her and she's still willing to marry the man and work with Candice!

She allows Candice push her around (physically in one instance and causing an already injured Abby to be further injured) without retaliating.

She allows Cat to get way with paying a couple of hired thugs to abduct her with enough force to hurt her already injured hips and, once again, doesn't retaliate in any way (she should have slapped hte woman senseless, at the very least), and she spends mst of the book avoiding Cat's steamrolling plans for Abby and Dutch's wedding instead of growing a backbone telling her to back off.

Really, Abby is less and less attractive as a main protagonist as this series progresses. Her fiance has coerced her at regular intervals (into remaining in a dangerous situation, in the previous book, because it would be going against HIS lofty princiiples to back out, and so he shamelessly manipulates her into staying because she knows that he would die if she backed out). Really the man isn't such a hot catch and she should cut him loose if he has so little regard for her beliefs and principles.

But at least the narrator has finally learned to pronounce "cavalry" (a word that crops up at least once per book and has, until now, usually been pronounced "calvary")

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