A Light on the Mail Order Bride's Love (Preview)

By Rita Wethers

After all the troubles in her past, a light beams brightly from afar. Will the bride find true love?

 

Honora Carter has lost both her father and brother in a stagecoach robbery. Now alone with her younger sister, they are taken under the wing of their oppressive and profit-driven uncle in Montana. Her only way out of the horrible new conditions she finds herself in is replying to a mail-order bride ad.

 

Taylor Brooks is a young man with unconventional, progressive dreams:  he longs to bring electricity to all the cities of the West. Against his father's wishes, he follows his dream in California where he is courted by a powerful man's daughter. Feeling pushed into a power play he puts an ad for a bride in the paper in  hopes of legitimizing himself as a married man and moving with his plans of erecting a moonlight tower in San Jose.

 

But when an unexpected turn of events does not let their plans go as smoothly as they would like, they shall find out the power love is stronger than electricity or human force.

 

If you like romantic stories with an electric beat get your book now!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Starfall Publications
• Release date: Jun 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393779285

Book preview

Prologue

1880

Montana

Honora, are we going to be happy here?

The sadly spoken words brought tears to Honora Carter’s eyes as the train drew to a stop in front of the station. She quickly blinked them away and turned in the seat.

Honora looked at the petite blonde-haired girl, whose eyes were the color of the sea, and forced a smile on her lips.

I reckon that we will, she replied with as much enthusiasm as she could muster.

Sheltering little Kate against the harsh realities they were going to face would have to be Honora’s lifelong mission. Finding out that their circumstances had gone from bad to worse would shatter the eighteen-year-old girl.

Having lost their father and brother during the train ride from Nebraska to Montana during this harsh winter was enough to scar Kate for life.

For a moment, the memory of how she lost the men in her family during a raid flashed through her mind. The outlaws hadn’t been merciful in shooting dead everyone that stood in their way. They had no remorse in gunning down women and children.

Hide! Kate’s father had shouted and pushed her and her sister into a pile of grain sacks close to the edge of the train.

Papa! Kate had called with tears in her throat.

Honora had quickly clasped a hand across her sister’s mouth to prevent her from calling their father again.

From her position in the pile of grains, Honora had been able to shift her body in such a way that she could stick her head out without being seen.

With horror widening her eyes, she had seen her father dash in front of a woman holding a baby. One of the robbers had held a gun to the