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The Bride Quilt
A mail-order bride, Madeline Preston had fled from the awful man who'd paid her passage, only to lose her way in the Rocky Mountain wilderness. The isolated cabin she stumbled upon seemed deserted until the owner returned in a fury with his sister's five orphaned children in tow and a blizzard raging at his back. With spring months away, Maddie was suddenly a captive of the elements -- and of this turbulent, tender man who had ignited a fire in her heart.
352 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1999
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August 29, 2025Current 2025 rating: 0-stars
Original 2015 rating: 5-stars and a keeper.
If you still like bodice rippers though, you might enjoy this as I did when I originally read it years and years ago during my bodice ripper era! As an old bodice ripper, I give it a 5-star.
Sam - a 28-yr old trapper, with waist-length long hair, bushy salt-and-pepper beard, gold hoop earrings, was bear sized and growled his corny inner and actual dialogues. He had an authentic backwoodsman speech (didn’t have the letter G in his vocab: bloomin’, takin’, goin’, eatin’), cussed with beauties like “Hells Bells!” and “Hellfire and Brimstone.” He had recently been given the custody of his 5 young nieces and nephews after the death of his sister.
Maddie - 19-yrs old, joined a mail order bride wagon train to avoid being forced to marry her fathers obese, elderly business partner. The journey did not go as planned and found herself abandoned at some remote location in the Rockies. She was a spoiled rich girl that stomped her feet, kept her chin up and spoke with a condescending tone, argumentative and needed the last word, was clueless how the real world worked, but she never gave up and kept pushing herself.
Maddie found a seemingly abandoned cabin and goes about ransacking and damaging the contents of the cabin in her search for ways to get warm. The owner arrives with his starving and freezing nieces and nephews and he was NOT happy to find Maddie in his house and his belongings damaged. And so the story goes as they learn to cohabit during the blizzard winter and fall in love.
If anyone wants to read this and needs help finding a PDF copy, just let me know.
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Original 2015 review:
I was hesitant to read this story, seeing as how there was only 1 review written and a star rating all together. But..... I loved the story. Not very high on the amount of steamy-love scenes, but it was super high on honest feelings that brought me to tears a few times (and I rarely ever do that). This author does a wonderful job telling the story of a hurt, lonely mountain man who is loud, mean and realistically feeling inconvenienced with all of the newcomers invading his cabin. I loved how grumpy he was, was just so honestly written. The heroine was written very well too, as were the children. I have read other mountain men love stories, where the lady shows up and invades the hermit's cabin and within a few days they are madly in love. Not this story.... it was written with way more realistic feelings that made me not want to put the book down. The only thing that I didn't like, was the epilogue, but only because it really confused me (I couldn't figure out who all of the people were that were being mentioned).
Original 2015 rating: 5-stars and a keeper.
If you still like bodice rippers though, you might enjoy this as I did when I originally read it years and years ago during my bodice ripper era! As an old bodice ripper, I give it a 5-star.
Sam - a 28-yr old trapper, with waist-length long hair, bushy salt-and-pepper beard, gold hoop earrings, was bear sized and growled his corny inner and actual dialogues. He had an authentic backwoodsman speech (didn’t have the letter G in his vocab: bloomin’, takin’, goin’, eatin’), cussed with beauties like “Hells Bells!” and “Hellfire and Brimstone.” He had recently been given the custody of his 5 young nieces and nephews after the death of his sister.
Maddie - 19-yrs old, joined a mail order bride wagon train to avoid being forced to marry her fathers obese, elderly business partner. The journey did not go as planned and found herself abandoned at some remote location in the Rockies. She was a spoiled rich girl that stomped her feet, kept her chin up and spoke with a condescending tone, argumentative and needed the last word, was clueless how the real world worked, but she never gave up and kept pushing herself.
Maddie found a seemingly abandoned cabin and goes about ransacking and damaging the contents of the cabin in her search for ways to get warm. The owner arrives with his starving and freezing nieces and nephews and he was NOT happy to find Maddie in his house and his belongings damaged. And so the story goes as they learn to cohabit during the blizzard winter and fall in love.
If anyone wants to read this and needs help finding a PDF copy, just let me know.
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Original 2015 review:
I was hesitant to read this story, seeing as how there was only 1 review written and a star rating all together. But..... I loved the story. Not very high on the amount of steamy-love scenes, but it was super high on honest feelings that brought me to tears a few times (and I rarely ever do that). This author does a wonderful job telling the story of a hurt, lonely mountain man who is loud, mean and realistically feeling inconvenienced with all of the newcomers invading his cabin. I loved how grumpy he was, was just so honestly written. The heroine was written very well too, as were the children. I have read other mountain men love stories, where the lady shows up and invades the hermit's cabin and within a few days they are madly in love. Not this story.... it was written with way more realistic feelings that made me not want to put the book down. The only thing that I didn't like, was the epilogue, but only because it really confused me (I couldn't figure out who all of the people were that were being mentioned).
January 8, 2022
5 stars, Rich girl on her own
THE BRIDE QUILT
by Pamela Quint Chambers
A delightful novel about a rich girl who runs away from her parents and finds herself in terrible circumstances.
Definitely on my most favorite books shelves. #favorites #favoritebooks #thebridequilt #historicalamericanfiction #historicalfiction #brides #mountainman
THE BRIDE QUILT
by Pamela Quint Chambers
A delightful novel about a rich girl who runs away from her parents and finds herself in terrible circumstances.
Definitely on my most favorite books shelves. #favorites #favoritebooks #thebridequilt #historicalamericanfiction #historicalfiction #brides #mountainman
November 16, 2014
A book about loving, losing & loving again. I enjoyed it. Read it regularly.
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