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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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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
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March 16, 2026Current rating: No rating, DNF too soon into the story upon reread.
Original 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!
🧔🏻♀️ 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.
I really disliked the FMCs attitude and I immediately didn’t care to see her HEA.
Original 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!
🧔🏻♀️ 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.
I really disliked the FMCs attitude and I immediately didn’t care to see her HEA.
November 16, 2014
A book about loving, losing & loving again. I enjoyed it. Read it regularly.
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