Strong Hearted Women: A Pair of Mail Order Bride Romances
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One Heart For Love: A Mail Order Bride Romance - A woman from England, missing an arm because of a birth defect, takes a chance on love to go out west and possibly marry a man with one leg. The only problem is she hasn’t told her future husband about her arm. He rejects her and she decides to help others by making them limb replacements, but her heart is heavy from the loss of a potential husband who she grew to love through their letters.
The Female Warrior: A Mail Order Bride Romance - Many years after the fall of civilization, well, sort of... a young noble woman from Michigonia is sent for to wed the son of a reigning leader of his people. They need heirs. So, she gets married immediately and turns out to be far from the image that her new husband had imagined his wife to be; forthright, willing to produce multiple sons and daughters, and a warrior to boot.
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Strong Hearted Women - Doreen Milstead
Strong Hearted Women: A Pair of Mail Order Bride Romances
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Doreen Milstead
Copyright 2015 Susan Hart
One Heart For Love: A Mail Order Bride Romance
The Female Warrior: A Mail Order Bride Romance
One Heart For Love: A Mail Order Bride Romance
Synopsis: One Heart For Love: A Mail Order Bride Romance - A woman from England, missing an arm because of a birth defect, takes a chance on love to go out west and possibly marry a man with one leg. The only problem is she hasn’t told her future husband about her arm. He rejects her and she decides to help others by making them limb replacements, but her heart is heavy from the loss of a potential husband who she grew to love through their letters.
My arm,
Emma Manchester said, carefully felling her left shoulder. Drawing in a deep breath, she eased her right hand down to her left arm, only Emma had no left arm. She had come out of her mother’s womb beautiful and healthy, but lacking her left arm.
Allowing a cold wet wind to play in her short blond hair staring out at a dark gray river flowing by a damp riverbank with angry currents, Emma sighed. Even though she felt beautiful in the long blue dress she was wearing, she knew many men considered her very ugly because of her missing arm.
Using her right hand, she reached down into the front pocket of her dress and retrieved a letter. Hope,
she said lifting her eyes upward, bypassing the low, gray sky, and looking into God’s promise her life.
Doubting God, she felt, would only allow her to become bitter, cold, and very lonely.
Are you ready, love,
a kind voice asked.
Turning away from the river, Emma spotted her older brother walk up. Admiring his loving face tucked into a thick gray raincoat, she wondered how it was going to feel to be away from a man she had seen grown up with. Every single day of her life, she had witnessed her brother’s face—a face that always supported her and encouraged her to seek God. I wish you were coming with me.
Brian Manchester smiled his usual older brother smile. Love, you know that I have responsibilities here. Running the print shop, as you know, is a difficult task.
Emma folded her arms and gave Brian a look that clearly told him not to appease the grief of goodbye she was feeling with a weak excuse. I have a very long voyage ahead of me. I’m sure you will be very busy running the print shop the entire time. So busy in fact that you will not be able to write me, I suppose.
Brian laughed. As he did, a strong wing kicked up his thick brown hair. Okay, love, you have me on the hot iron.
I’ll miss you,
Emma told Brian cherishing his laughter, but I’ll come home as often as I can. If I fail, I’ll return home all together. Oh Brian, do you think I am acting like a childish school girl, chasing a foolish dream across the world?
Walking to Emma, Brian embraced her with caring arms. "I have always encouraged you to follow your heart. You believe that God is telling you to go to America and marry the man that has been corresponding with you. After three years and a great many deal of letters, this man has asked to be your husband.
Now, you’re off,
Brian said and threw his arms up into the sky like a mighty bird taking to flight, off into an adventure filled with daring love and powerful faith. Are you a fool? No, you simply want to be loved.
Emma smiled nervously into her brother’s honest eyes. I should have mentioned my arm. What if Andrew rejects me?
If I’m not mistaken,
Brian assured Emma, Andrew is missing his right leg. You two should make quite the pair.
Emma found encouragement in Andrew’s words, but she also felt a deep sadness whisper into her hear; a sadness far away, from silent battlefields filled with the dead bodies of thousands of men; men who fought bravely to defend what they each believed was right. The war of the states, as Andrew calls it, claimed the lives of thousands…and even the men who survived are alive but dead inside.
War is a very horrible thing,
Brian agreed. Now, we must get you to the dock. The year is 1880, my love, and the war that cost Andrew his leg has long been over. You are both still young and have a chance at love.
We’re both thirty-three,
Emma reminded Brian, the days of our youth are quickly vanishing.
Oh,
Brian smiled throwing his arm around Emma and gently walking her away from the river, as long as the heart has laughter and the soul has joy, the body will always be youthful even when it grows old. We must always remember that God overcomes all things and that through His Son we find peace. Peace in growing old, peace in times of grief, peace in times of tribulations, peace in times of grief, and peace in times of joy.
You’re trying to prepare me for disappointment if I am to come face to face with it, aren’t you,
Emma asked Brian.
The path you’re taking is uncertain, but journeyed in faith. If it is God’s Will, you will find love. If not, then you may face heartache and disappointment, yes. However, God will not use your pain to weaken you.
Emma grew silent as Brian walked her onto a cobblestoned pathway. Feeling the weak rain droplets beginning to fall from the sky, she grew very afraid. In the letters written to the man she was to marry, Emma had not mentioned her arm. Yes, she knew, she had not lied, but she had also not revealed the truth. Would God be upset with her for delaying the obvious through fear instead of faith? God will lead my heart,
she whispered walking with her brother past a row of beautiful trees waking up from a long winter.
An hour later, Emma was on board a comfortable steam passenger ship. Grateful that Brian had paid for her passage, Emma waved down at him from the deck of the ship. With tears in her eyes, she watched her brother wave back. Never lose your faith,
he yelled over the sounds of other passengers yelling goodbye to their loved ones.
Andrew Mulligan stared at his wooden crutch with hurt eyes. Even though he had lost his leg in the battle of Gettysburg, and many years had passed, he still felt cheated. The crutch, leaning against a blue wall, reminded him that life dealt him a poor hand of cards. Leaning forward with sweat on his forehead, he ran two strong hands through thick red hair.
Knowing that he had chores to tend to and that he needed to get his butt up from the rocking chair he was sitting in, Andrew sighed deeply. Yeah, I know,
he said aloud. Without looking up, he reached forward and grabbed the crutch.
About time,