Wife Not Required (The Brides of Boxwood Book 1): A Sweet Historical Western Romance
by C.C. ColdwellPublish: Jul 25, 2019Series: The Brides of BoxwoodHistorical Romance Book Overview
Spring, 1868. Dakota Territory.All she ever wanted was a family.Illegitimate, orphaned at birth and raised by a kind doctor and his wife, Mattie Robinson yearns for something more than New York City’s poor, overcrowded and violent east side. Her marriage prospects are limited and her future seems uncertain so when the opportunity for an arranged marriage arises, she happily agrees. Mattie travels west to the tiny prairie town of Boxwood, in the Dakota Territory to meet and marry John Stark, a man nearly thirty years her senior. Her dream of having a family of her own is finally going to come true.He just wants to be left alone.Thomas Langley has seen enough brutality during the Civil War to know that he wants no part of society. Both emotionally and physically scarred by battle and his time in a prison camp, he left South Carolina to start over in the wild and sparsely populated Dakota Territory. But like so many of his plans, this one too is going astray. Unable to care for his sick infant daughter since his wife’s death and struggling to establish his cattle ranch, the last thing Thomas has time for is meeting his dead friend’s mail-order bride at the train station.
They need each other.After receiving the news of John’s death, Mattie isn’t sure what to do. She knows she doesn’t want to return to New York City, no matter how many times Thomas tells her she should. When Thomas suddenly finds himself without a woman to care for his daughter, he and Mattie realize that they might be the answer to each other’s problems. Thomas has never met a woman like Mattie. She’s capable, unafraid of hard work, bossy and can’t be cowed by his nasty temperament. Mattie is drawn to Thomas too, even if he can’t stop rolling his piercing steel-grey eyes at her... This first book in the Brides of Boxwood Series is a sweet historical romance featuring two main characters who prove that opposites really do attract.A sweet, clean historical romance with a HEA celebrating the strength and resilience of men and women.
About the AuthorBorn to a long line of storytellers, C.C. Coldwell wrote her first story at age six and proudly carried it to school in her pink plastic briefcase. She didn’t read her first romance novel until she was twenty years old and it took her nearly another twenty years to get up the courage to write one herself. C.C. spends a great deal of time molding and imagining her characters, spending time with them and bringing them to life but is never upset (or surprised) when they veer from her neatly planned storyline. While she never passes up the chance to read a good Highland romance, she is far more interested in writing stories about the men and women who, with determination and courage, made a new life for themselves on the western frontier. C.C. lives with her husband, two daughters and one very demanding beagle several hours north of Toronto, Canada.