Meeting The Men Who Hold Secrets: A Trio of Mail Order Bride Romances
By Beth Overton
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Mail Order Bride: Jennifer Plain And Tall, And Her Widower - A plain and tall young woman with a gentle soul travels back to Texas where her family ranch is located, to be with her fiancé who she has corresponded with. He’s a widower with four children and barely makes ends meet, and when his relative cuts off the water to his ranch he suffers along with his cattle. He finally asks the woman to be his wife and she then takes the entire family out to see her old home, which her fiancé believes she will leave him for.
Meeting The Man With Dark Secrets - After her husband passes away and then her sister, a woman travels to California to meet a man she believes needs medical care. After noticing a wanted poster and then meeting him, she begins to realize that all is not as it seems, and the man has a dark secret he keeps hidden within his home.
Mail Order Bride: Darning The Cowboy’s Socks In Utah - A very shy woman from Philadelphia takes the plunge and becomes the mail order bride of a socially awkward cowboy in Utah. They have to deal with the curious townspeople and an angry father who thought his daughter would be the cowboy’s bride.
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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Meeting The Men Who Hold Secrets - Beth Overton
Meeting The Men Who Hold Secrets: A Trio of Mail Order Bride Romances
By
Beth Overton
Copyright 2016 Quietly Blessed & Loved Press
Mail Order Bride: Jennifer Plain And Tall, And Her Widower (A Mail Order Bride Romance)
Meeting The Man With Dark Secrets (A Mail Order Bride Romance)
Mail Order Bride: Darning The Cowboy’s Socks In Utah
Mail Order Bride: Jennifer Plain And Tall, And Her Widower (A Mail Order Bride Romance)
Synopsis: Mail Order Bride: Jennifer Plain And Tall, And Her Widower (A Mail Order Bride Romance) - A plain and tall young woman with a gentle soul travels back to Texas where her family ranch is, to be with her fiancé who she has corresponded with. He’s a widower with four children and barely makes ends meet, and when his relative cuts off the water to his ranch he suffers along with his cattle. He finally asks the woman to be his wife and she then takes the entire family out to see her old home, which her fiancé believes she will leave him for.
Jennifer laced her boots as quickly as she could. She had to get up and get her chores done so that she could go into town, and check the posts. Her Aunt Martha would only let her go with Uncle Henry if all of the chores were done to her satisfaction. That meant that Jennifer needed to do an extra good job, because Aunt Martha was very picky about how things were done.
Jennifer had moved in with her aunt and uncle nine months earlier after her parents had been killed during a bank robbery. Jennifer and her parents had moved out west to Texas when he was a small child. They had all loved Texas and wanted to stay, but then her parents had gone into town to get supplies one morning, and everything had changed. Jennifer had stayed home instead of going into town because it was her mother’s birthday and Jennifer had wanted to make her a surprise.
While her parents were in town Jennifer had been baking her mother a cake, straightening up the cabin and starting s fish stew or dinner. She had gone and picked the wild onions that her mother loved in her fish stew the day before. She had told her father her plans so that he would not force her to go with him and her mother to town. While her parents were in town bank robbers had robbed the bank.
When the robbers were trying to escape the town after the robbery one of the storeowners had stepped into the street and taken a shot at the robbers. The robbers had fired in return and Jennifer’s parents had been caught in the crossfire.
Jennifer had been at home waiting for her parents to return. She had waited all day and all night. The next day when she was starting to really panic, the sheriff and a lady from the church, had ridden up. Jennifer knew that those visitors meant something was really wrong, but she had done everything she could to maintain her composure. She did not want the sheriff and the lady from the church thinking she was a child.
She was sixteen and she could handle the trials of life, or so she had thought. Jennifer had been preparing herself for the news that her parents had been injured, or even kidnapped by savages, but she had not entertained the notion that her parents were both dead.
When the sheriff told her that bit of news the girl had crumpled to the ground like a rag doll.
After getting that bad news Jennifer went and stayed at the home of the church lady until after her parents were buried. Then the sheriff had given her fifty dollars that her father had been carrying when he died and he had also bought Jennifer a train ticket back to Kentucky. Jennifer had showed up on her aunt and uncle’s doorstep tired and an orphan. Since then, the girl had lived with her aunt and uncle on their small horse farm.
Two months previously Jennifer had turned seventeen. She did not know exactly what she wanted to do, but she knew that she had to begin to do something to create her own life. She could not simply exist as a perpetual visitor in the house of her aunt and uncle.
Jennifer did know that if she could go anywhere in the world, that she would return to Texas. The last true happiness that she had felt had been when she was living in Texas. Of course, she knew that part of that happiness had been because of her parents, but part of the happy feelings she had were due to the fact that Texas people seemed to be more tolerant of other people.
Jennifer was not the beautiful young seventeen-year-old girl that she wished she was. If Jennifer had been beautiful she would probably not have had any trouble finding someone in Kentucky that would want to make her their wife. Jennifer was not beautiful though, because she was too tall and too thin. She stood almost six foot tall and she weighed less that one hundred and twenty pounds. She looked like a praying mantis because her limbs were long and thin and most people called her bony.
She had a gap between her top two teeth that looked ridiculous. Her hair was not blonde, nor was it brown. Her hair was a mousy brown. It looked more like it was the color of dirty dishwater. She had freckles across her nose and cheeks that had never diminished, and her face was long, her forehead high, and her hairline started too far back. She had really large feet for a girl.
Jennifer knew that there was not a lot of hope in her finding a husband in Kentucky.
She was smart though. She learned about the periodical called Matrimonial Times. Matrimonial Times had men who lived in the west advertising for women to move to the west and become their brides. Jennifer had no doubt that the men were not the cream of the crop or they would not be out west without wives, nor would they be begging women through the pages of a periodical to join them.
However, Jennifer knew that beggars could not be choosers and in her case she was begging for a man to take her as a wife and companion.
The men wrote advertisements telling how old they were and basically what type of careers they had, and they listed the attributes they were looking for in a wife. Then the women read the advertisements and answered the ones they were interested in. Women like Jennifer who were not attractive enough to get a husband under normal circumstances, women who were widowed and had children to raise, women who simply needed out of a bad situation. The men and women would write letters to one another and try to get to know each other and if they both thought it was a good idea, the woman would travel to the west and meet the man.
Then, if everything went right, the two would be married. These women were called Mail Order Brides.
Jennifer had read an advertisement by a man in Texas in the periodical. Jennifer thought that the periodical would be an answer to most of her problems. It would help her to find a husband that could be tolerant of her plain looks and it could help her get back to Texas where she thought she could be happy again.
The man from Texas was named Andrew Street. Andrew had a ranch in the southern portion of Texas not far from where Jennifer and her parents had lived. He raised beef to sell. Andrew had four children and two of them were very small. His wife had died in childbirth six months before. That left Andrew with an infant, a child of two years, a child of seven years, and a child of ten years.
Andrew needed a wife to care for the children and the house while he ran the ranch. He was more than honest with his advertisement.
Jennifer had responded to his advertisement with equal honesty. She had told him of the death of her parents. She told him she was seventeen and although she had never been around small children much she was certain that she could help him with the kids. She also told Andrew that she was not a pretty woman. She explained about all of her physical shortcomings. She did not want to get all the way to Texas and have the man send her back when he realized that she was an ugly girl.
She told Andrew that she could cook, she could sew, she had worked in a garden before, and she knew how to read and write and to add and subtract so she could help educate his children.
Jennifer had posted the letter a couple of weeks earlier and she had been waiting on a response. She figured that she would never hear from him, but she decided she was going to wait three months before she completely gave up.
Jennifer did all of her chores as quickly as she could. When she was finished she washed up and tidied her hair before she went to ask her aunt for permission to go to town with her uncle. When she went into the kitchen where her aunt and uncle were talking about the weekly grocery order, she stood aside and politely waited until the two adults were finished speaking before she said anything.
When her aunt and uncle were finished with the list he aunt turned and smiled at Jennifer. Hello Jennifer, I did not know that you were there.
Jennifer said, Yes ma’am I did not want to interrupt.
Her aunt went to the counter where she had bread dough resting and she began to knead the dough. Have you finished your chores?
Jennifer said Yes ma’am I have completed them and if you wouldn’t mind I would like to go into town with Uncle Henry this afternoon.
Her aunt looked at the girl and said, If your chores have been completed, you look presentable, so I do not see why you cannot ride into town. While you are there you might want to look at some of the new bolt goods that Mr. Pearson got in last month. You will soon need a couple of new dresses and you still have plenty in your account at the bank to pay for some cloth and notions to make a couple of dresses and a matching bonnet.
Jennifer said "I will look at them while I’m there. I do need a couple of new