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Mail Order Bride: Widowed, Jilted, & Pregnant On The Wagon Train West
This 42,000 word novelette contains powerful Christian influences, love, family and other related themes meant to make you smile!
Mail Order Bride: Widowed, Jilted, & Pregnant On The Wagon Train West, is a truly emotional and spellbinding story of a fiercely independent French woman who is first widowed, and then pregnant, then jilted by the man she corresponded with to become his mail order bride. After the long journey from Europe to the US, she decides to undertake an even longer and far more hazardous one, when she joins a wagon train and a family on their way to Salt Lake City. After a few days they begin calling her Lioness, and she soon proves that she can live up to the name.
Mail Order Bride: Widowed, Jilted, & Pregnant On The Wagon Train West, is a truly emotional and spellbinding story of a fiercely independent French woman who is first widowed, and then pregnant, then jilted by the man she corresponded with to become his mail order bride. After the long journey from Europe to the US, she decides to undertake an even longer and far more hazardous one, when she joins a wagon train and a family on their way to Salt Lake City. After a few days they begin calling her Lioness, and she soon proves that she can live up to the name.
127 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 27, 2014
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February 25, 2020
Norman's on the Oregon Trail
The book was a reasonable depiction of a journey west on the Oregon Trail during this time period. Ettie was a lioness as Cole named her, but the trials, losses and emotional discovery mellowed her natural character. As with many of us, the bold brashness of youth is tempered by the challenges of life, leaving us more mellow and controlled, able to see past the emotional response to various perspectives. It seems likely that Myra would remain in Cole's family for life but would have been a wife in name only. Considering his love for Ettie, it seems unlikely he would take additional wives. This book is clearly a book about Morman's and their efforts to flee persecution and create a place of safety for their religion.
The book was a reasonable depiction of a journey west on the Oregon Trail during this time period. Ettie was a lioness as Cole named her, but the trials, losses and emotional discovery mellowed her natural character. As with many of us, the bold brashness of youth is tempered by the challenges of life, leaving us more mellow and controlled, able to see past the emotional response to various perspectives. It seems likely that Myra would remain in Cole's family for life but would have been a wife in name only. Considering his love for Ettie, it seems unlikely he would take additional wives. This book is clearly a book about Morman's and their efforts to flee persecution and create a place of safety for their religion.
April 26, 2015
Rescued after being jilted as a mail order bride.
This author has near 100 short books on Kindle. I first read him 2 years ago and was not impressed due to many mistakes of history and mappings. His story lines has improved greatly. This story has a different twist of a group of multiple wife's to one man. A stranded widowed pregnant lady is befriended by this Christian family who take her in. They are in a large wagon train going North about to leave. Needing companionship and protection she joins the family.
This author has near 100 short books on Kindle. I first read him 2 years ago and was not impressed due to many mistakes of history and mappings. His story lines has improved greatly. This story has a different twist of a group of multiple wife's to one man. A stranded widowed pregnant lady is befriended by this Christian family who take her in. They are in a large wagon train going North about to leave. Needing companionship and protection she joins the family.
September 4, 2015
I enjoyed the idea of this book, but the details lost me a bit. My own aversion to plural marriage left me wishing for a better solution for the main character. While I respect the man who offers her protection, I kept hoping for her to hold out against his constant attention. I don't plan to read anything else by this author.
April 3, 2015
Very very Good book
I love the book. It talked of trouble times. But through God and faith anything is possible. I enjoy the book very much could not but it down until finish with it.
I love the book. It talked of trouble times. But through God and faith anything is possible. I enjoy the book very much could not but it down until finish with it.
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