num_pages: 279
description: Jesse Donovan spent the last four years chasing gold hoping to convince his New York fiancee to join him. He's now rich successful and eager for his wife-to-be to make the trip out west. But now that it's time to travel to Hope's Crossing and marry Jesse the New York socialite sends him a letter informing him of her intention to marry another. Heartbroken and lonely Jesse contacts Matchmaker &amp; Co. for a mail order bride. Clarissa Clare Griggs is the eldest daughter of a poor farmer who is barely surviving off the land. At twenty-three she is an old maid and a burden on her family. Clare knows what love looks like and she wants a family of her own. Volunteering as a mail order bride seems to be the perfect answer to her dilemma. Her family will be better off and she can find her own love story happiness and finally become a mother. But Hope's Crossing isn't the ideal location that Jesse or Clare dreamed. A bitter rival is trying to kill Jesse and take his mine. Jesse's broken heart won't allow him to love Clare the way she needs and Clare refuses to live with a man who doesn't love her. When the enemy threatens Clare's life Jesse realizes Clare has become a part of him a vital piece of his heart and soul -- but is he too late? 
language: English
title: The Replacement Bride
publisher: Firehouse Publishing