num_pages: 158
description: Alice Carter found herself a widow her doctor husband murdered as he left the hospital where he worked. Alice too is a doctor and thought she wouldnt have any trouble finding a position with the hospital where her husband had been so well regarded. She was wrong. Seems no one wanted a female doctor especially one in mourning. Seeing no other way out Alice becomes a mail-order bride to a doctor in Hopes Crossing in the Montana Territory. Dr. Jeremiah Kilarney needs help. He needs a nurse to assist him with his patients. Knowing he has to marry the woman or shell be inundated with marriage proposals from the lonely miners he goes to Matchmaker &amp; Co. Specifying his need for a nurse or someone willing to be trained as one hes surprised when Alice Carter doctor steps out of the stagecoach with her precocious daughter Melly. Can Alice and Jeremiah have a future when ghosts from her past still hold her heart? Hope's Crossing can be the answer to their future or the end of their dreams. 
language: English
title: The Unexpected Bride
publisher: Firehouse Publishing