title: Bride for Ernest
author: Osbourne, Kirsten
description: When Josephine McClain finds out she is losing the only home she’s ever known, she doesn’t know what she should do. She soon meets Miss Hazel while walking around Ottawa, a woman who is building a reputation as a matchmaker to the Mounties. Within minutes of meeting the older woman, Josie is offered a letter to read from a Mountie looking for a bride.  Feeling she has no alternative, she agrees to marry the man, but she makes a vow to herself to be positive.
  Ernest Keeler was a Mountie who loved his job, but realized he was lonely. He sent for a bride, and he was sure she would be the perfect woman for him. When he sees Josie get off the ferry, he realizes that she’s exactly what he’d imagined he would be. Ernie hopes his absentmindedness won’t cause trouble with his new bride.  Will the two of them, with their positive outlooks on life, be able to be happy together? Or will their differences keep them apart?