Mail Order Bride: Chloe & Bill’s Story

By Doreen Milstead

Three sisters from London strike out for the Americas, where one already has a fiancé in waiting – a cowboy in Nevada. He knows that two other women are coming but doesn’t know what he’ll quite do with them when they arrive. They garner plenty of attention from the other men in town ands soon the cowboy finds that his small house has become crowded as he and his new bride seek a little bit of privacy to start their lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Hart
• Release date: Sep 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311009340

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Mail Order Bride: A Clean Western Cowboy Romance (Chloe & Bill’s Story)

By

Doreen Milstead

Copyright 2015 Classic Western Romances Presents

Synopsis: Three sisters from London strike out for the Americas, where one already has a fiancé in waiting – a cowboy in Nevada. He knows that two other women are coming but doesn’t know what he’ll quite do with them when they arrive. They garner plenty of attention from the other men in town ands soon the cowboy finds that his small house has become crowded as he and his new bride seek a little bit of privacy to start their lives.

Oh my dear baby sister. My dear misguided Andrea. How many women doctors do you know of? And where would you get the money to attend college? And lastly – are your grades even good enough to enable you to get into a medical college?

Andrea was close to tears as she listened to her eldest sister Chloe explain why her dream was frivolous and would never be realized.

She stopped washing the breakfast dishes and asked, Well, if you are running off to America to marry that cowboy, what is to become of me and Margaret?

We’ve been over this numerous times, you two are coming with me and we will find you suitable husbands and you will live a happy life.

It all sounds so easy when you say it. Especially when you say it so quickly, like it’s a walk down the street. You are dragging us half way around the world.

But I must warn you, it won’t be easy, you are rather hideous, Chloe joked, ignoring Andrea’s protestations.

Her sixteen-year-old sister was at the age where vanity ruled her life and found that she could not pass a mirror or a shop window without checking her appearance.

Andrea yelped and threw a wet dishrag at Chloe.

The other sister, the eighteen-year-old Margaret, was anything but careful with her appearance. Her mind always seemed to be miles away, thinking about what – heaven only knew. She was forever writing - she had notebooks filled with her thoughts and stories, but never showed them to anyone. As to reading – she was a voracious reader; knowledgeable on any topic that one would care to discuss. If the family needed to know anything, they would ask Margaret. She was, their father used to say, a living library.

The sisters had been left on their own after their parents had succumbed, within days of each other, to influenza a couple of years prior and it fell to Chloe, being the oldest, to look after them. Their father had left them a small inheritance, enough to get by on for a while, but the time had come when the money was running out and something had to be done to secure their future.

Chloe was taking them to America. She had started a relationship, by post, with a young cowboy in New Mexico and although she had only seen pictures of him, she was deeply in love. They had been corresponding for over a year and knew each other well. Well enough to be married, they felt.

But Chloe could not leave her sisters behind. They had to come along as there was to be no future for the younger girls should she leave them in London. She was torn, Andrea had a quick mind and had done well in her studies and perhaps she could very well have become a doctor. But it was not possible financially.

And Margaret, well Margaret would starve to death – not for lack of food, but she would, no doubt,