num_pages: 69
description: Seventeen-year-old Mia Roberts, at the suggestion of a friend, reads The Matrimonial Times. Despite her beauty and charisma, Mia has no prospects for a marriage in Philadelphia. The poverty her family has fallen into dictates that she must find a husband and leave home.  She answers an ad, from a cowboy, and soon finds herself with a correspondent in Amarillo, Texas. Toward the end of the requisite letter writing courtship, Mia's admirer proposes matrimony, and her plans to leave home become a reality.  The journey West is fraught with anxiety and worry. Mia must make a continuous effort to keep her thoughts and imagination from running away with themselves.  When she gets to Amarillo and finally meets Tom Barnes, her intended husband, Mia is instantaneously smitten. Much more handsome than she'd realized, Tom is dashing and manly. But before they can be married, he's needed on a cattle drive to California. Their marriage must wait.  The affianced have five months to miss each other. Can Tom make it back from the trail successfully? Will Mia still be smitten even if Tom returns from the trail or has she found someone new to spend the rest of her life with?  Read "The Rancher's Bride's Wait" now to find out...
title: The Rancher's Bride's Wait
publisher: Beyond Original LLC