Unwanted Bride Meets French Connoisseur: The Three Wainright Sisters Looking For Love, #3

By Lillis Lawson

The year is 1834 and ambitious Adelina decides to become a Mail Order Bride.

Adelina is the youngest of the three Wainright sisters. She is the girl of dreams. She wants a life that is outside the traditional conservations. She wants a life where she is able to make an identity out of her own. She dreams of a big city life where she can make a career as a dessert chef.

Adelina is swept off her feet when she exchanges a couple of letters with William Vanhoosen whom she has found through Matrimonial Advertising message. She leaves for Mexico from Tampa to get married to him. But Mexico has something entirely different waiting for her. William is nothing that the letters had told her. She was set up to marry him by William’s sister-in-law, Elza. Finding the truth, Adelina leaves their house and comes to the lady she had met during her journey. She starts working at a café.

Things change when Marcon Andre comes into Adelina’s life. Once again Adelina has to make a life-changing decision. Will Adelina find her dream life and a new love?

***These Books Are Sweet, Clean, Christian Historical Western, Short Romance Stories ***

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lillis Lawson
• Release date: Sep 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516324507

Book preview

Introduction

This is the third book in The Three Wainright Sisters Looking For Love Series. This is Adelina's story. All three books can be read alone. They are complete stories but if you would like to read them in order:

●  Felicia's story is book one. Read Felicia's story here: "Mail Order Brides: Marriage Under False Pretense."

●  Magdalena’s story is book two. Read Magdalena’s story here: "Mail Order Brides: Adventurers Bride Meets Crippled Groom."

●  Adelina’s story is book three. Read Adelina’s story here: Mail Order Brides: Unwanted Bride Meets French Connoisseur

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Old West Slang

According to Hoyle ~ Correct, by the book

Bosh ~ Nonsense

Calaboose ~ jail

Curly wolf ~ real tough guy, dangerous man

Dinero ~ a word for money

Doxology works ~ a church

Gospel mill ~ a church

Fine as cream gravy ~ very good, top notch.

Flannel mouth ~ an overly smooth or fancy talker

Flush ~ prosperous, rich

Gospel sharp ~ a preacher

Granger ~ a farmer

Played out ~ exhausted

Shin out ~ run away

Stumped ~ confused

Twig ~ understand

Chapter One

November 16, 1834 – Tampa

Adelina twisted the straw between her fingers and stared at the sun going down behind the mountains. A cold breeze was making her hair flow and chill was starting to get through her thick coat. Winter evenings were never her favorite. She liked the sunshine. Dark and rainy wasn’t her thing. It would always imprison her to the walls of her home and the day would get all shrink making the nights even longer. She loved to spend the day in the open air rather than stay indoors looking at the same old walls and same old peeling off paint.

She sighed and got up from the ground dusting off the back of her skirt. She fixed her hat and started walking back towards the home. The quietness had begun to eat her up. With both her sisters Felicia and Magdalena married, it was just her and her parents in the house that never felt bigger before. Felicia had always been the quieter one from the three but Magdalena; she was a talker and could keep talking all day. But now both of them had gone and Adelina was left alone. She wasn’t complaining, but she was frustrated with everything being so stale around her. She needed some excitement in her life.

You are home, darling. Marguerite, her mother, greeted her as she entered. I have made some broccoli soup for dinner. Tell your father to come to the table. Adelina slipped off her coat and hung it up behind the door and then walked to her dad’s study. Her father was reading the Penny Press newspapers as she knocked and opened the door. He smiled kindly at her as she asked him to come for dinner and then retreated. Her father was a very straightforward and innocent – as she would say, kind of person. He had been living the same kind of life all his life, so had her mother. Though Adelina knew that her mother wanted to step out of Tampa, she never did because of her family. Adelina wasn’t in favor of letting dreams suffer because of getting bounded by relations. She believed that relationships should be strong enough to support and aid you in striving for your dreams. Her mother should have gone after her dream and father should have supported her.

Adelina had her own dreams. She wanted to be a cook – a Pastry chef in one of the big restaurants in a city which is so big that her own little town Tampa was nothing in comparison. She wanted the big city life. She dreamed of being one of the finest chefs in the world who would be complimented by all the famous people around.