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On A Train Bound For Nowhere Kindle Edition

by Susan Leigh Carlton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Mary Catherine was abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant. Still unadopted, she is nearing the maximum age for the orphanage. Neither of the two choices offered by the mother superior hold much promise. Will it be the orphan train or the streets of New York City?

Trace Jennings lost his father in the Civil War. He was raised by his mother and lives on a ranch in Helena, Montana. A disastrous mail order marriage left him with a stepdaughter and leery of marriage.
Can Mary Catherine and Trace put their bad memories behind them and have a life together? What happens to the stepdaughter?
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    A Train Bound For Nowhere
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    200 pages
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  5. Publication date
    9 July 2017
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073V4L46C
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3552 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
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Susan Leigh Carlton

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Susan Leigh Carlton was born in Rock Hill. SC She now lives with her husband of fifty-six years, Rick, and her ornery cat, Lissie.

Susan Leigh Carlton is an 87 year old computer nerd. She spent forty years working for IBM in various roles. She was a customer engineer, an instructor and held various manager positions.

She began writing and publishing on Amazon in August of 2012 as a way to help pay off medical bills that were piling up. She's written how-to computer books, contemporary fiction, a children's book about her dog, and even a couple of of zombie books, but her real passion is historical western romance and time travel. One hundred-thirty-seven of them and all on Amazon, with most in Kindle Unlimited.

Susan lives in Tomball, Texas, a Houston suburb, with her husband of fifty-four years, her psychotic dog, Charlie, and her arrogant cat, Lissie.

Follow Susan on Facebook at facebook.com/susanleighcarltondotcom

Visit Susan's website at susanleighcarlton.com

Susan worked for and retired from IBM (Some say it means I've Been Moved), and consequently was able to travel extensively, with moves to Dallas, Indianapolis, West Lafayette, IN; Alexandria, LA; Gaithersburg, MD; and Houston (3 times.) She has also traveled to forty-seven US states, as well as outside the Continental US to Hawaii; Brussels, Italy---Venice, Florence, Rome, Pompeii, Japan, the Philipines, Guam, and Hong Kong.

She has visited most of the locales of her stories.

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Texas mom
5.0 out of 5 stars Trace and Mary Catherine
Reviewed in the United States on 17 February 2022
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This is one of the sweetest stories I’ve ever read. They were some sad parts, a smig of humor, but lots and lots of love and caring. Mary Catherine was an orphan from only days old and went she mad the freckles on the orphan train sh was the only one left that no one chose. Trace was a young man that lost his father in the war and his body was never brought home. This troubled him and his mother a great deal. You will enjoy discovering how they find their happily ever after.
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David Purkiss
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow wow wow outstanding read of a book?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2023
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This is the 3rd book by susan leigh Carlton and everyone as been brilliant reading and the story of this one just holds you all the way from start till the end if you like reading these kind of books this one is a must read read it for yourself and you will won't be disappointed?
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DJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on 24 March 2020
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I loved reading this book. Live in 1800's is my favorite thing to read. You did a beautiful job telling of life then. Mary Catherine was a remarkable person. She began life in a hard way but never let it get the best of her.She was so clueless about life outside the orphanage but she met it head on. All the characters were intriguing. I live about 60 miles south of you and would be thrilled to meet you. I just know you would be a blog to visit with. Keep up the wonderful writing can't wait to read another of your books.
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Cindy Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars From an orphan to a loving family and man.
Reviewed in the United States on 12 July 2017
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From a sad start to a happy ending, this story kept me enthralled. The main character is a strong person who faces life as it comes. Starting out as an orphan who was left on the steps of the Foundling Home in New York City, she faces an uncertain future as she approaches her 18th birthday. A train bound for the West is filled with orphans, and Mary Catherine is the oldest one on board. As one of 3 girls left, 2 of which are quite young, Mary C stays at the hospital with the nuns and works with them. She meets a wonderful old man she befriends, then the wife of the local pastor. Many events take her to places she never dreamed of, and her life is ever changing. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys tales of the old West, orphan trains, and mail order brides.
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j.r.
3.0 out of 5 stars writing is very simple and has grammar errors. Compelling characters if you can overlook that.
Reviewed in the United States on 14 September 2018
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The story was interesting but the writing was not. Grammatically, there were some errors--most notably with making Native American tribe names and family names plural. The author has a tendency to use an 's to make names plural (Ex. Lakota's) when this really means the Lakota tribe owns whatever comes after the 's.

The writing style itself is very simple. Rather than write transitions, the author just writes a partial sentence (Ex. "on the day of the wedding") and continues on. The same information gets repeated numerous times. (I won't tell you how many times we get to hear Mary Catherine's story.) And the story seems to change to suit the author's needs at the time. The narrative we get at the beginning telling us Mary Catherine's story contradicts what Mary Catherine tells people. Some other facts about her life in New York seem to change when she talks to Trace or to Julia.

To be fair, Mary Catherine does have a sad story. Abandoned at only a few months, raised in an orphanage by nuns, aging out of the system, traveling across the country watching other orphans get adopted and not being adopted herself, not having any friends. In a way, she was very sheltered about life and what it has to offer.

The families where she ends up seem almost too good to be true. In fact, the worst person in the novel is Christina Pogue and she's not even from the town. Mary Catherine gains friends, a family, and eventually an education, a ranch, and a husband.

The up and down romance of Mary Catherine and Trace gets wearisome. I do agree with some of what they did and said. I do think it was good that they took the time to court and to get to know each other to make sure that they were good partners for each other. I also liked that they eventually came to an agreement about being partners in a marriage rather than Trace always getting his way because he was "the man" and was "to be obeyed". I admired Mary Catherine for standing up to him about that. Then again, she had less to lose than most--she already had a means of support if she didn't get married.

Overall--not the best book I've ever read and I probably wouldn't read more by this author unless they were free.
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