title: Little Dutch Bride
author: Hake, Kelly Eileen
description: Marriage Is Given a Christmas Deadline
  
  In an era when a single woman had little hope of support and security outside marriage, four young women find themselves talked into weddings on the eve of Christmas celebrations.
  
  JEROME SANDERS orders up a Dutch bride to earn a grant that will save the family farm. Idelia van der Zee is delighted when a letter arrives asking for her hand. But will she balk when Jerome's true motive is revealed?