Jasper's Bride
By Ann Laurel
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The boys of Jasper Falls Ranch are grown and its high time they each found a wife. With the help of the pastor’s wife, the oldest, Jasper Winslow places out an ad in a western travel magazine for a bride.
Annette Mason happens to discover the magazine while cleaning the home of her employer. Determined to leave the city of Chicago behind, Annette answers it in spite of her parents’ disapproval.
Follow Annette’s journey as defies her parents and seeks to discover if she can find true love by answering a mail order bride ad.
Mail Order Brides of Jasper Falls Ranch series starts with Jasper’s Bride. Read the books in any order. Each story is a clean western historical romance with strong Christian tones.
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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Jasper's Bride - Ann Laurel
Jasper’s Bride: Mail Order Brides of Jasper Falls Ranch, by Ann Laurel
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Chapter One
I thought I didn't have to do this! I can't believe I'm going to have to follow in the same footsteps. You said you wanted more for me in life than this,
Annette said to Mother as she threw herself on the bed feeling so betrayed.
Lollie Mason looked at her grown daughter throwing a fit over the job. She had arranged service employment for each one of the three before Annette. It's not up for discussion. We are a service family. We've always been a service family. You have a whole life ahead of you and beautiful family in which to serve. The Ruffords have been very good to us throughout the years. We are indebted to them for they have given us our home and enough income to live very comfortably. It's not so much to ask that you have to do your part too.
Lollie looked at Annette with disappointment in her eyes.
Annette teetered on the verge of tears but she held them back for she didn't want Mother to see just how much she didn't want this kind of life. Annette had dreams of getting married and starting her own life away from Chicago. City life was all she had known, except the occasional trip that her family took as they traveled by train out west. It was such a time that her family was on vacation in the beautiful state of Colorado that Annette began to dream about becoming a rancher's wife. She loved the open outdoors and the beautiful skies with the rugged mountains in the distance. She wanted that to be her everyday life and imagined herself as the wife of a cowboy who could ride horses and plant gardens out in the soil and have babies and grow a family. But the only life she's ever known was living in Chicago in the city with her family, a service family.
Annette’s mother and father worked for the Ruffords just as her dad’s parents had been employed by the Rufford family previously. Her grandparents long gone now were very comfortable in their life as the butler and the maid of the Rufford home. Now, Lollie Mason stepped up as the head housemaid to the expensive home with the other servants underneath her with the other housemaids and chambermaids. Annette’s father, Eddie Mason, stood in as the butler and head over the stables and the gardeners. Of course, her two sisters and brother also worked for the Ruffords. Her two sisters worked in the kitchen. One of them had married the carriage driver. The other currently wasn't married and didn't have any desire to do so. That sister didn't have big plans, she did her service job without fuss.
So now I'm supposed to go to work for the Ruffords just like the rest of you? I really don't want to, Mother, please,
Annette begged as she flipped her long brown hair over her shoulder.
Mother, exasperated, set the laundry down that she had been folding and looked at her daughter. "You've been raised knowing that you had a job ever since you were born. I was a mere chambermaid when your father was one of the stable boys and