num_pages: 148
description: Alice: Bride of Rhode Island is thirteenth in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series. Fleeing her step-father and an arranged marriage in Newport Alice Endicott finds work as a seamstress at the Brown Textile Mill near Boston. When a devastating fire destroys the factory she and all the girls face dire unemployment circumstances. But hope arrives when their manager Roberta McDaniel shares the Grooms Gazette with them. Each woman will choose a husband and become a mail-order bride. As Alices friendsLottie Leora Judith Beth Lessie and Josieembrace the idea she too becomes caught up in the excitement of a grand new adventure. When fisherman Frank Martel contacts her Alice cant pass up the opportunity to return to Rhode Island despite her step-fathers presence. Upon arriving at the train station in Tiverton however Frank neglects to meet her. James Martel is shocked to find a woman at the rail depot claiming to be his brothers fiance. Even more surprising is her connection to a man who ruined James father years before. When Frank confesses that he can no longer wed Alice James steps forward to fill the role since the beautiful young woman holds the key to avenging the Martel name. Can Alice convince her new husband that their marriage is worth saving once she discovers his subterfuge? And will James learn that love is more important than revenge? A sweet romance set in 1890 America. 
language: English
title: Alice: Bride of Rhode Island
publisher: K. McCaffrey LLC