the unexpected bride: a sweet mail-order bride historical western romance (hope's crossing book 4)  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 wouldn’t 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 hope’s 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 she’ll be inundated with marriage proposals from the lonely miners, he goes to matchmaker & co. specifying his need for a nurse or someone willing to be trained as one, he’s 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.