Yankee Mail Order Bride (Mail Order Brides Book 5)
by Susan Leigh CarltonPublish: Mar 15, 2014Historical Romance Romance Western Romance Historical Fiction Christian Fiction Book Overview
This is western romance novella about two young people searching for happiness.
Josiah Moore was a twenty two years old when helost his wife to diphtheria, leaving him with a two year old daughter. Heignores his daughter and tries to lose himself in a bottle. A bar room fightleaves him bleeding on the sawdust on the floor in Cheyenne.
An old family gives him a hard time, telling himhis late wife would be ashamed of him. Two black eyes and a nose stuffed withcotton later, he sets out to make amends. He decides to place an ad for abride.
Anna Taylor is the eighteen year old daughter ofa wealthy Plymouth, Massachusetts clothing merchant. After her money hungryfather agrees to force her to marry a conniving, lecherous old man, she slipsout of the house and places an advertisement for a mail order husband.
Can these two desperate young people from such different backgrounds andcircumstances find love and happiness in frontier Wyoming?