num_pages: 65
description: Mabel Grandstaff dreams of finding true love and lasting happiness but her dreams turn to bitterness when her parents come up with the plan to marry her off to the town drunk. Robin Yerger is rich and can save the family from starvation but Mabel will have nothing to do with the project. How can she get out of a life of misery and degradation before her parents force her into an arranged marriage? Across the country in Nebraska Territory Elijah Winchester has everything a single rancher could ask for: five thousand acres of prime range land money in the bank and two doting parents who want the best for him. The floor drops out from under him when his parents concoct a wild plan to marry him off. They want him to place an ad in the Matrimonial Times to get a wife sent out from Back East. Elijah rolls up the newspaper and stuffs it through a knot hole in the front porch to get rid of it but his parents wont back down until he does what they tell him. Mabel is going crazy trying to come up with a way to get out of the disaster of her impending marriage. Her friend shows her a copy of the Matrimonial Times and one ad sticks out above all the others. Can Mabel find happiness at last or will all her hopes and dreams come to nothing in the dusty streets out West?
language: None
title: The Arranged Bride
publisher: None