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    Bluebells for Benjamin: A Historical Romance
    Bluebells for Benjamin: A Historical Romance
    Bluebells for Benjamin: A Historical Romance
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    Bluebells for Benjamin: A Historical Romance

    By Doreen Milstead

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    A woman heads to Alaska to practice nursing and also hoping to find love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateDec 17, 2015
    ISBN9781329769779
    Bluebells for Benjamin: A Historical Romance

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      Bluebells for Benjamin - Doreen Milstead

      Bluebells for Benjamin: A Historical Romance

      Bluebells For Benjamin: A Historical Romance

      By

      Doreen Milstead

      Copyright 2015 Susan Hart

      Synopsis: A woman heads to Alaska to practice nursing and also hoping to find love.

      FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, 1905.  It was a time of waistcoats, fob-watches, corseted underwear, extravagant long dresses, parasols, horses and cart, ladies and gentlemen, good manners and gold. 

      Ambrosia Walsh, a confident, brassy woman in her early twenties fresh out of college, strolled out of the hospital and took a deep breath of fresh country air.  She only got to enjoy the fresh air for a moment, when a wagon went noisily by, flicking up dust and making her cough and cover her mouth with her handkerchief. 

      She was so happy to have found a job as a nurse, even if it was as far away as Fairbanks, Alaska.  At least she wouldn’t have to put up with her father nagging her anymore about making a ‘woman’ of herself and getting married.  She was thankful for one thing. 

      He was a strict Catholic man and had deeply embedded his faith to her and her brother Samuel, who had come with her to Fairbanks to make his fortune in the gold rush.  Their father had been reluctant to see his children leave and was so cross, he refused to say goodbye and busied himself in the church.  It was his way. 

      Ambrosia knew that he would send a telegram sooner or later.  She was happy for it to be later at this rate.  Yes, she did want to get married and have children and like her mother who died a few years previously, she believed in love. 

      True love.   The thunderbolts and lightning she had read in her mother’s romance novels.  It existed.  She knew it deep in her heart.  Until then, God was her love.  She put her heart and soul into becoming the best person she could be, by both volunteering at the newly built ‘Immaculate Conception Church’ next door to the Catholic-run hospital she now worked at, and by looking after and caring for her brother Sam who worked his tail to the bone every day to try and make a penny.

      They had secured a small log cabin for themselves behind one of the banks.  Their father had warned that it would be dangerous

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