Mail Order Bride: Opal & Cole's Story (A Clean Western Historical Romance)
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A biracial woman from the south decides to go to a rancher in Colorado, but she hasn’t told him she’s half black. At the train station she is devastated when he thinks an obnoxious southern belle is the bride he has gone there to meet. He lets his intended stay at his ranch until she decides what to do, and things become very interesting from that point forward.
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Mail Order Bride - Doreen Milstead
Mail Order Bride: Opal & Cole’s Story
(A Clean Western Historical Romance)
By
Doreen Milstead
Copyright 2015 Classic Western Romances Presents
Synopsis: A biracial woman from the south decides to go to a rancher in Colorado, but she hasn’t told him she’s half black. At the train station she is devastated when he thinks an obnoxious southern belle is the bride he has gone there to meet. He lets his intended stay at his ranch until she decides what to do, and things become very interesting from that point forward.
Opal cast a sidelong look at the girls just across the aisle and smoothed the skirt of her travel dress. Even if she closed her eyes, she could never pretend that the sturdy serge bore any resemblance to the soft shimmer of the other girls’ dresses. Nor would her skin ever attain that pale, pampered look that was in every magazine she had ever looked at.
No, no one would ever mistake Opal Lincoln for a pampered miss who had never done anything more tedious than needlepoint, or strenuous than dancing at the latest ball. Not with her callused hands and tanned skin.
But just once, just for this one day, Opal let herself wish that she could look like stylish girls across from her, because today was special.
Today she was getting married.
At the last train stop, she had gone into the waiting room, freshened up her hair, and washed her face. She couldn’t do anything about the plain dress or weathered skin, but she could style her hair like the other girls. For that, she could thank her father . . . if she knew who he was.
Her mother never talked about her years as a slave. It was as if her life had begun on January 1, 1863. It was only through others that Opal learned what her mother had lived through as an ‘upstairs maid’. It was a common placement for light-skinned slave women, especially if she was pretty as well. Opal’s mother had been a true beauty by anyone’s standards.
She had inherited none of her mother’s looks beyond the light skin. Short and plump, she had never gotten the attention from men that her mother had. Not that her mother had ever encouraged the attention. Most of the time she fled from it.
Maize,
she had said, mos’ men see women as an object of pleasure, pretty to look at and fun to hold. You make sure when you fin’ a man to love, you make sure he c’n comman’ your respect, not your fear. Ain't love to be afraid or to be forced to do things agains’ your will. That’s bein’ a slave, and you ain't nobody’s slave. You be strong in yourself and someday a strong man’ll come along and together, you’ll make somethin’ stronger yet. Don’t you forget, Opal.
And, she hadn’t forgotten. But now, Mama was dead. She had worked hard for twenty years to make sure that Maize had decent clothes and schooling. But it was no good. Her mama’s people didn’t want her because she looked white and could read and write. The white people didn’t want her because even though she looked like them, they knew it was only skin-deep.
There was no place, no job, and no respect for a half-breed.
The pittance that Mama had saved up over the years was long gone. Maize had managed to get odd jobs here and there, but her very existence made too many people uncomfortable. She was a living symbol of a vanished way of life. One group wished to go back; the other group