My blurb …
Setting: 1861. A mining camp. Father, son and daughter who passing as a male. Yet another gold field. Father spends the gold as fast as it’s found on liquor & gambling while son & daughter toil long hours. Della is also expected to do all the things a woman would – laundry, shop, cook, clean. The law is fair, tough and swift. And Della Wolfe, known as Del, wishes she was anywhere but Bear Valley.
Category: Mail Order
Mail-order bride books. Occasionally a groom shows up instead of the bride.
Runaway Mail-Order Bride and the Mayor
Heather’s mother died and her father is not only a drunk but is abusive. It is not a surprise that Heather runs away by becoming a mail-order bride. Her future lies in the town of Daisy Creek, Nebraska where Joshua is Mayor who has placed an ad for a mail-order bride. But this story has more than “girl meets boy, boy meets girl, big sigh!” Heather withholds certain information from Joshua and when that “information” arrives in Daisy Creek. Oh boy…
Courting Caleb
Abigail Mast advertises for an “Amish Mail-Order Groom” just like her best friend did. Caleb King responds to the ad after another abusive encounter with his fater. He appears in the open door at Abigail’s pottery without writing ahead. Startled at his sudden appearance, Abigail drops the mug she was working on. Then — Abigail informs Caleb that there is another groom already there. Phillip Miller. Two grooms, one ad.
Holiday Hope
I’d give this book six stars if I could. Holiday Hope is not your typical mail-order-bride story. The story has several twists that keep you reading — even if you *should* be doing something else. The characters are introduced so well that you never have a problem keeping straight who is who. The pacing of the book is spot on from beginning to end.
A Match for Althia by Linda Carroll-Bradd
The year is 1874. It is April in Chicago. Instantly you will be on Miss Althia Heathley’s side & hoping her father’s new wife trips herself — any place, anywhere but preferably at the top of a long flight of stairs. Her life has been miserable since her father remarried and it only took four months. And when she isn’t miserable, she is bored. Oh, she makes up stories in her head for the novel she wants to write, but her life is a “prison”. Which is why she secretly responded to an advertisement in her father’s discarded newspaper.