Mail Order Bride Box Set: Fort Benton Series (5 Women, 5 Stories, Clean and Wholesome): Inspirational Western Short Story (Fort Benton Mail Order Brides Book 6) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This is a sweet and clean collection of stories about Mail order brides traveling to Fort Benton, Montana in the late nineteenth century. Sarah O'Neill Sarah O'Neill's father wants a better life for her and on her 18th birthday she arrives in America to the land of hope and glory. She finds the job of her dreams as a teacher but an old family rivalry from Ireland overturns Sarah's world. Will she take a chance on the widowed rancher and be his mail order bride? Will she take a chance on love? What of her secret – will if follow her from New York to Boston to Montana. Her faith gives her strength. Orla McBride Orla McBride defies her parents at every turn. A failed elopement jeopardizes her chance of making a good marriage in Ireland. Her virtue has been compromised. She is forced into being a mail order bride. She will travel to Montana to marry her sister's brother-in-law. Will the spirited Orla settle down with the mild mannered James? Or will she be tempted by the black sheep of the Kelly family, Jason? Sadie Collins May Callaghan responds to a mail order bride ad. She does this for her friend, Sadie. But as she enters into correspondence with the handsome doctor. May falls in love with the doctor. A premonition of doom overtakes May and tragedy strikes. Sadie Collins arrives in Fort Benton. The doctor is expecting his new bride to work with him as his nurse. But someone from the past is lurking in the shadows. Will Sadie's secret come out? Will Joel Samuels forgive her? Kitty O'Shea Kitty has been a governess for 10 years. Does she seek another job and thereby have her heart broken each time a child leaves for boarding school or does she take a chance on finding a husband, to create a family of her own? Matthew Stewart is a widower with two young children. His interest is only in finding a mother for his children. He never wants to love again, he doesn't want to open himself to the pain he experienced when his first wife died. Kitty and Matthew are brought together by a matrimonial agency and the arrangement suits their needs. Kitty's mother died when she was young and she was left with a father in grief, the similarities attract Kitty to the Stewart family. She wants to heal the wounds of loss. But there is a secret lurking in Matthew's past, a second wife who has disappeared. Will the secret be revealed? Will Kitty fill the void left by the children's mother. Bridget Murphy Bridget Murphy is a young widow with two young daughters. She lives in Ireland with her in-laws but is not allowed communication with her parents. Her deceased husband's gambling debts leave her destitute and her in-laws ask her to leave, too much shame has descended upon the family. She returns home but her father is dying and with no male heir, his property will be inherited by a male cousin. With no home of her own, and with her sisters' married in Montana, she decides that she will take a chance and head to Montana with them in anticipation of marrying rancher, Trent Baxter. Trent's mother was a widow with two sons and he remembers her loneliness and sadness. She marries again and Cliff becomes a father to Trent and his brother. He sees the love that blossomed between Cliff and his mother and he is willing to marry a widow, to be a good husband and father to her and her children. But he wants a family of his own. Will Bridget's fear of loving again stand in her way of love with Trent? If she marries, can she give herself fully to a man who wants a child of his own or will the pain of losing her son make it impossible for her to go through with the marriage? Will Trent's love of Bridget be stronger than his need to have a child of his own?