num_pages: 176
description: Lucy lost Jack years ago. Jack Hunter's father was a drunk and a criminal, and Lucy Hamblin's father believed the apple lay near the tree. When her father forbade their love, Lucy buried her heart out of obedience, but she never stopped loving Jack. On a strange evening four years later, she's summoned to the local jail. Jack has been accused of murder and has a request to make of Lucy. It appears Jack Hunter will hang in the morning, and to preserve his property and provide for the woman he loves, he asks Lucy to marry him. When his trial is postponed and ultimately dismissed, Jack has new worries: Lucy agreed to become a prosoner's widow, not the wife of a man her father despised. Can Lucy and Jack accept he Lord's miracle of preservation - of Jack's life and reputation...and the love they believed they'd lost?
language: English
title: The Prisoner's Wife
titlecomplete: The Prisoner's Wife (Maine Brides)
genres: Historical, Christian Fiction, Mystery, Historical Romance, Christian Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Christian, Romance
ratings_count: 541
series: Maine Brides
publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc