num_pages: 156
description: Travel to Victorian America in 1890 with award winning and bestselling western romance author Caroline Clemmons for a humorous novel about two people destined for one another after a turbulent getting acquainted period. This book is sweet and suitable for readers over 18. After a fire destroys the factory where Patience Eaton worked followed by a succession of job failures she travels from Massachusetts to Washington to marry the man her father chose via a matchmaker. While Andrew Kincaid appears to be a very nice man hes older than her fathers and not someone she wants to marry. Her prospective groom places her in a respectable boarding house and agrees to give her a job in the office of his commercial apple orchard so she can learn about his life and business. But working alongside her handsome future stepson presents unexpected complications. Two years ago an unjust accusation ruined Stone Kincaids chance at happiness. Now he concentrates all his energy on building the family business. When he meets his prospective stepmother hes angry that his father cares so little for his mothers memory that he sent for a mail-order bride younger than Stone. He believes Patience to be interested only in his fathers fortune. Stone plans to keep an eye on the attractive woman whos slated to become his stepmother. Can two people working at cross purposes arrive at a compromise? 
language: English
title: Patience: Bride of Washington
publisher: None