title: A Bride for the Lonely Farmer
author: Gardner, Callie
description: When Irish girl Kathleen Kelly is molested by her employer and let go from her position as housekeeper, she is left destitute with no prospects and far from home.
  Taken in by a friend’s landlady, she must find work soon to support herself as the woman’s kindness will only go so far. In desperation, her friend suggests moving out West as a Mail Order Bride. Katie is horrified at the thought but what else can she do?
  Katie travels to Gushing Creek in Oregon to meet her future husband – Joseph Barker. Her expectations are high when she arrives on her wedding day however, all is not as she had dreamed of in this distant, wild and rugged part of America.
  The wedding is a disaster and the couple spend their first night apart with Katie thinking of getting the next stage out of town and Joe wondering how he can make it right with his new bride.
  The couple try to make a go of it out on Joe’s farm but his arch enemy, Thomas De Vries, is hell bent on getting his hands on the couple’s farm and will stop at nothing to make it his own. The couple must learn how to fight De Vries together or risk having everything they own in this world taken away from them… including each other.
  Can Katie and Joe work together and form a united front against De Vries or has he won already and it is just a matter of time before everything they own is taken from them?