Mail Order Bride: The Shy Woman From Boston & The Country Cowboy & Doctor In Arizona

By Beth Overton

A woman leaves Boston to become the mail order bride of a cowboy rancher, doctor, and horse farm owner in Arizona. She’s expected to take charge immediately, but barely knows which end of a horse is which. At first sight of the doctor’s prize black stallion, she realizes that she most definitely has taken on far more than she can handle. However, the doctor is away tending to a family that needs his help desperately and she is the only one who can, perhaps, get the fiery horse to where they need him to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beth Overton
• Release date: Feb 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311829436

Beth Overton

Beth Overton lives in Northern California with her husband and three cats. Besides writing romances, she loves to read everything she can get her hands on, as well as cooking up gourmet delights for her entire family.

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Mail Order Bride: The Shy Woman From Boston & The Country Cowboy & Doctor In Arizona

By

Beth Overton

Copyright 2016 Quietly Blessed & Loved Press

Synopsis: A woman leaves Boston to become the mail order bride of a cowboy rancher, doctor, and horse farm owner in Arizona. She’s expected to take charge immediately, but barely knows which end of a horse is which. At first sight of the doctor’s prize black stallion, she realizes that she most definitely has taken on far more than she can handle. However, the doctor is away tending to a family that needs his help desperately and she is the only one who can, perhaps, get the fiery horse to where they need him to be.

Wednesday, April 17, 1881

Downtown Boston—Mid-Morning

Boston, Massachusetts

At the age of twenty-two Brandy Wright looked and dressed like any other Victorian woman her age. She leaned towards ankle length skirts and boots.

She was quite knowledgeable on many subjects that most people knew nothing about. Inside, she was fun and energetic, but her shyness kept these aspects of her personality hidden. Her sister called her Brandy or Shy Wright.

Brandy longed for a life of freedom with the ability to go where she wanted and do the things that mattered to her. Unfortunately, her dad wanted her to get married and start her life and that meant marriage or finding a suitable job to support herself.

With the current economic situation struggling to recover from the Great War, men were all over the place looking for jobs. She had little chance in finding anything suitable that would sustain her.

One place offering her movement and freedom was the women's Temperance Union. These women campaigned for issues like temperance, the woman’s right to vote or the ability to work, even birth control. Other than handing out pamphlets, Brandy's shyness got in the way of her moving into leadership or any other financially supportable position. She realized she only had one other option in life and that was marriage.

Brandy began looking in the Boston Gazette at the mail order bride ads. She worried that as a mail order bride she would have a boring life. She imagined there would be a steady routine of cooking, doing laundry, milking the cows and chasing the chickens. On a busy day she might have to help fix up a corral post.

After all that, most men were interested in having children too. There was no room in any of that for freedom.

Resigning herself to married life over a life of poverty and disgrace, she headed to town to get the latest copy of the Boston Gazette. As she walked down to the local tavern, she noted the women she passed on the street. These women had no problem talking freely to everyone they met.

She watched one woman, half her age speaking animatedly with the horse livery driver. They were involved in a conversation about horses. The woman was trying to understand why some of her horses ran faster than the others in a team.

Brandy knew a lot about horses and would like to be able to join in their conversation. Her shyness kept her away.

Two other women were