Author: | Becca Haist, Helen Keating, Victoria Otto | ISBN: | 9781311827678 |
Publisher: | Lisa Castillo-Vargas | Publication: | February 17, 2015 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
Author: | Becca Haist, Helen Keating, Victoria Otto |
ISBN: | 9781311827678 |
Publisher: | Lisa Castillo-Vargas |
Publication: | February 17, 2015 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
Language: | English |
Mail Order Bride – Left Over From The Lottery, is about an Englishwoman who chances a long journey out west to become a mail order bride, but who loses out at the last minute because of one man’s withdrawal from the lottery. As she becomes the town’s new schoolteacher, she wonders if she’ll ever find love.
Mail Order Groom – Widow Sends For A Baptist Husband, is about a widow who sends for a man to become a father to her children and husband to herself, while trying to take care of her Nevada land and teach the word of God. At first, it’s more like a practical business arrangement but they soon find a great commonality and solace for their individual losses.
Mail Order Bride – Becoming A Good Farmer’s Wife, is about a woman sent by her parents to Oklahoma to escape a raging influenza epidemic. She knows the farmer she is supposed to marry told her parents several untruths about his age and occupation, but she reluctantly tells herself that staying a little while won’t hurt anything. Her life after that becomes richer each day through faith, love, and overcoming many obstacles.
Mail Order Bride, An Arrogant & Faithless Woman For The Pastor, is a story about a woman and her young brother who lose their parents and are sent by their aunt to the west, where the pastor only heard about the arrangement a week before they are due to arrive. He has no idea how rude and unconcerned about others the woman is, and even though he’s growing to dislike her arrogant ways, he vows to try to at least help her mute young brother.
Mail Order Bride – From The London Underworld To The Arkansas Rancher’s Arms -- Almost dead from starvation and a hard life in London, orphaned Bea barely makes it to Arkansas and the man who would be her husband. In fact, her future husband cannot find her as he searches the train station frantically for his English mail order bride.
Mail Order Bride – Left Over From The Lottery, is about an Englishwoman who chances a long journey out west to become a mail order bride, but who loses out at the last minute because of one man’s withdrawal from the lottery. As she becomes the town’s new schoolteacher, she wonders if she’ll ever find love.
Mail Order Groom – Widow Sends For A Baptist Husband, is about a widow who sends for a man to become a father to her children and husband to herself, while trying to take care of her Nevada land and teach the word of God. At first, it’s more like a practical business arrangement but they soon find a great commonality and solace for their individual losses.
Mail Order Bride – Becoming A Good Farmer’s Wife, is about a woman sent by her parents to Oklahoma to escape a raging influenza epidemic. She knows the farmer she is supposed to marry told her parents several untruths about his age and occupation, but she reluctantly tells herself that staying a little while won’t hurt anything. Her life after that becomes richer each day through faith, love, and overcoming many obstacles.
Mail Order Bride, An Arrogant & Faithless Woman For The Pastor, is a story about a woman and her young brother who lose their parents and are sent by their aunt to the west, where the pastor only heard about the arrangement a week before they are due to arrive. He has no idea how rude and unconcerned about others the woman is, and even though he’s growing to dislike her arrogant ways, he vows to try to at least help her mute young brother.
Mail Order Bride – From The London Underworld To The Arkansas Rancher’s Arms -- Almost dead from starvation and a hard life in London, orphaned Bea barely makes it to Arkansas and the man who would be her husband. In fact, her future husband cannot find her as he searches the train station frantically for his English mail order bride.