AJ's Bride

By Ann Laurel

A Clean Western Historical Romance.

Theodore Magnus felt it high time to force his twenty-year-old daughter, Bella, to move West and marry the man he hand chose from the many mail order bride ads. Though Bella was reluctant at first she finds after a perilous adventure that AJ Winslow rides in to her rescue. Bella felt she would have been just as well to stay home in Georgia an old-maid.

Follow Bella and AJ’s adventure as she struggles with moving so far from her home state of Georgia and into a life in which she has no idea how to live.

See faith and true love at work in this heart-warming story about becoming a rancher’s wife.

Mail Order Brides of Jasper Falls Ranch series third book AJ’s Bride. Read the books in any order. Each story is a clean western historical romance with strong Christian tones.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Perfectly Plotted Books
• Release date: Jun 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370626045

Ann Laurel

Ann loves to write inspirational sweet romances. Her first series, The Cattlemen's Wives, are western historical mail-order brides. All of her books are guaranteed to make you feel good when you reach the end.Ann lives with her husband and children in the beautiful Ozark Mountains in the south. She enjoys raising Godly children, volunteering with her church, homemaking, and writing.

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AJ’s Bride: Mail Order Brides of Jasper Falls Ranch, by Ann Laurel

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Chapter One

Bella wheeled Theodore Magnus into the front room and adjusted his pillow behind him as she offered a smile as only a daughter could do. At twenty, she had no problem with being what others in the area referred to as an old maid. Her mother had died just as the war ended and her father had come home from the war wounded. Bella grew up mostly without her mother as her two older sisters took care of her and helped to keep house until they married and moved off. Leaving Bella behind to care for her father was something Theodore never wished. He smiled at his daughter and nodded.

Did you get the magazines I asked for? he asked.

Bella gave her father a confused smile for all the magazines he had requested had to do the Wild West. Living all the way in Georgia and being real Confederate survivors, the West was not a place where Papa had ever talked about seeing. Now, all of a sudden, he had a desire to read through all these travel magazines.

Yes, Papa, I'll go fetch them, Bella said as she excused herself and shuffled off into the other room where she kept the stack of magazines. After placing them on the table beside Papa’s chair, she watched as he picked up one and began thumbing through it.

Is there a problem? Theodore asked his daughter.

No problem, Papa. But I am curious. Why did you request these magazines? Bella asked.

Isn't it okay for an old man who can't walk around to dream about traveling someday to places I've never seen? You know I'll never make it to this part of the country but I've always wanted to go see the Old West. I suppose this is just my way of dreaming. Now you run along and do what you need to do to start supper for later. I'll be okay in here, Theodore said as he turned his attention back to the magazine.

Bella left him and worked on cutting up the turnips and the cabbages and snapping the beans for supper while the maids finished cleaning the home. They didn’t have a cook on staff since Bella’s sisters had left. Late spring brought in plenty of hot weather and with the breezeway open the house still felt stifling especially when they stoked the stove. But Bella didn't mind for it meant that Papa was happy and well fed and she would do whatever she had to do to keep him happy.

Bella couldn’t understand why when she walked into the room and saw that Papa had rolled up to the old desk writing a nice long letter he would hide it and just give her this look of annoyance.

Just corresponding with some old friends of mine, honey. You run along and get with your housework leave me to my letters, Papa said with an air of mystery.

Bella couldn't understand why her