Mail Order Bride: Harriet & Gavin’s Story (A Clean Western Cowboy Romance)

By Doreen Milstead

A woman is kidnapped from her coach while on her way to Southampton to join her mail ordered fiancé in America. The man tells her that he’s a travel officer there to help capture a trafficking gang and although cooperative, she feels that something is wrong. Once they reach Boston and after meeting her intended, she is again taken while staying at an inn on the way to Colorado. This time she knows that something is wrong and goes kicking and screaming into the night with her abductor. The mystery is revealed later at a farmhouse along the way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Hart
• Release date: Sep 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310968327

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Mail Order Bride: A Clean Western Cowboy Romance (Harriet & Gavin’s Story)

By

Doreen Milstead

Copyright 2015 Classic Western Romances Presents

Synopsis: A woman is kidnapped from her coach while on her way to Southampton to join her mail ordered fiancé in America. The man tells her that he’s a travel officer there to help capture a trafficking gang and although cooperative, she feels that something is wrong. Once they reach Boston and after meeting her intended, she is again taken while staying at an inn on the way to Colorado. This time she knows that something is wrong and goes kicking and screaming into the night with her abductor. The mystery is revealed later at a farmhouse along the way.

Harriet Hatfield had received his letter two months ago already. Although she could recite every phrase, every sentence and practically every word of its two pages, she still wanted reassurance that it was all true. She was going to America! Indeed, and not just to the east coast of the New World, but she was due to travel across the continent to join her fiancé in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where he had acquired a beautiful ranch, a piece of land overlooking a gentle stream. Harriet had spent countless nights trying to imagine the cabin Gavin described to her at some length in his first correspondence.

They had never met, which was unfortunate, but Gavin Aldridge’s parents had been friends with the Hatfield family for years. Gavin had moved away to America with his mom and dad when he was just a lad and Harriet had been away at her aunt’s place at the time. She recalled the brash and unruly young boy playing in the schoolyard with his mates, but his face had been just a blur until Gavin had enclosed a photograph of him and his dog Sam in with one of his letters.

Gavin was now a tall and handsome young man. His attractive head of blond hair was still as unruly as ever, while is beautiful smile still as inviting as when she knew him. Harriet had returned the favor, sending Gavin a photograph of her family taken at the fair the previous year.

Harriet was not yet twenty years old. She had always lived at home in a small village at the outskirts of the city of Oxford in England. Her parents had been fortunate enough to inherit a nice cottage and some farming land on which her father grew vegetables and young plants that he and his wife sold at the local market year round.

In later years Harriet’s father had constructed a conservatory of sorts in which he began growing orchids and other prized flowers. He sold those to the upper crust community of Oxford. As for Harriet, to say she was a gorgeous young woman would not have been enough of a description of her gentle and soft facial features.

Her blue eyes seemed to have been carved out of the most exquisite aquamarine while her auburn hair