A bride for keeps
By: by Melissa Jagears
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Unexpected brides -- bk. 1; Thorndike Press large print Christian romance; Thorndike Press large print Christian romance series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9781410464736
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Large type books; Fiction; Mail order brides; Frontier and pioneer life; Farmers
Description: Everett Cline will never humiliate himself by seeking a mail-order bride. Not again. He's already been jilted by three mail-order brides and figures a wife just isn't in his future. However, a well-meaning neighbor hasn't given up on seeing him settled, so she goes behind his back to bring yet another woman to town for him. Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiancé. A mail-order marriage in faraway Kansas is a last resort, but she'll do anything to leave her life in Massachusetts and the heartbreak she's experienced there. Although Everett doesn't see how a beautiful, cultured woman like Julia could be happy sharing his simple life, he could really use a helpmate on his homestead. Determined to prove she's more than just a pretty face, Julia agrees to a marriage in name only. Faced with the harsh realities of life on the prairie and hesitant to explore the tentative feelings growing between them, can Everett and Julia ever let each other in long enough to fall in love?