title: The Orphaned Wheelchair Bride
author: Ashwood, Emma
description: Orphan Julie Foster lives with her aunt and uncle in New York City. She has dreams of marrying and starting a family, but she does not believe she will ever have such things. A childhood tragedy has left her in a wheelchair. The ordeal of her condition has sent her spiralling into a desperate depression that she does not feel she will ever fully recover from. However, her aunt and uncle take matters into their own hands, when they begin writing – as her – to a rancher in Fairbanks, Arizona. The rancher, Connor Gilbert, is a handsome and kind young man. He invites her to join him out west. Julie and her best friend and caregiver Carol ride out to meet him. Upon meeting the two ladies, he is distraught and confused to discover that Julie is in a wheelchair. He treats her rudely and sends them to live with his sister instead. When she begins tutoring his sister’s small children, Connor realizes that there is much more to Julie than her disability. Will Julie get a second chance? Is there still an aisle for her to walk down? Will she find love and recover from her debilitating depression? Can Julie finally heal? A lovely new story about love, loss and repair from Emma Ashwood. With comforting themes about overcoming disability, debilitating life challenges, heartache and healing - most of all about finding love and true happiness