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A Bride Across Time: A Sweet Time Travel Western Romance
An antique bridal trunk. A missing bride. A sheriff who needs a wife in name only.
Clara Whitaker has built her life around old things—objects with history, secrets, and stories no one else has bothered to hear. But when a train ticket hidden inside a nineteenth-century bridal trunk sends her from modern Colorado to the frontier town of Silver Creek in 1884, Clara becomes part of a mystery she was never meant to solve.
Everyone in town thinks she is Clara Bell, a mail-order bride expected to marry Sheriff Caleb Harlan.
Caleb does not have time for impossibilities. He is fighting to keep custody of his orphaned niece, Lily, while the town council questions whether a lawman’s home is fit for a grieving little girl. Clara is not the bride he sent for, and Caleb is too honorable to pretend otherwise. But with gossip spreading, Lily’s future at risk, and the real Clara Bell missing, he and Clara agree to a marriage in name only.
The bargain is supposed to protect them both.
Instead, it draws them closer.
As Clara uses her gift for reading forgotten objects to uncover the truth behind the missing bride, she discovers a trail of hidden letters, a powerful businessman’s secrets, and a danger tied to the very railroad that brought her across time. Caleb wants Clara safe. Clara wants answers. And Lily only wants the home she has already begun to believe Clara might share.
But the same ticket that brought Clara to 1884 may be able to send her back.
When the past offers her love, family, and a place to belong, Clara must decide whether home is the life she lost—or the one waiting for her in Silver Creek.
A Bride Across Time is a sweet time travel western romance featuring mistaken identity, marriage of convenience, a protective sheriff, a found-family child, frontier mystery, and a heartfelt happily-ever-after.
Clara Whitaker has built her life around old things—objects with history, secrets, and stories no one else has bothered to hear. But when a train ticket hidden inside a nineteenth-century bridal trunk sends her from modern Colorado to the frontier town of Silver Creek in 1884, Clara becomes part of a mystery she was never meant to solve.
Everyone in town thinks she is Clara Bell, a mail-order bride expected to marry Sheriff Caleb Harlan.
Caleb does not have time for impossibilities. He is fighting to keep custody of his orphaned niece, Lily, while the town council questions whether a lawman’s home is fit for a grieving little girl. Clara is not the bride he sent for, and Caleb is too honorable to pretend otherwise. But with gossip spreading, Lily’s future at risk, and the real Clara Bell missing, he and Clara agree to a marriage in name only.
The bargain is supposed to protect them both.
Instead, it draws them closer.
As Clara uses her gift for reading forgotten objects to uncover the truth behind the missing bride, she discovers a trail of hidden letters, a powerful businessman’s secrets, and a danger tied to the very railroad that brought her across time. Caleb wants Clara safe. Clara wants answers. And Lily only wants the home she has already begun to believe Clara might share.
But the same ticket that brought Clara to 1884 may be able to send her back.
When the past offers her love, family, and a place to belong, Clara must decide whether home is the life she lost—or the one waiting for her in Silver Creek.
A Bride Across Time is a sweet time travel western romance featuring mistaken identity, marriage of convenience, a protective sheriff, a found-family child, frontier mystery, and a heartfelt happily-ever-after.
365 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 29, 2026
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August 7, 2026
Ok, this woman works in a library and an old ticket takes her back in the past. When shows up, another woman with her name had disappeared. She marries the sheriff to help him keep custody of his niece. Eventually they fall in love, but the romance is more of a side story. I think if you are in to mysteries, this book may speak to you, because figuring out what happened to the other woman and catching the man responsible took up most of the story.
And I just have to say, the language in this book is odd. There are no contractions from anyone, but 1 time. The little girl once said, while sitting in a chicken coop, 'I ain't ...', making her sound like some country hick, which she never spoke like that otherwise. But everyone says, 'I can not tell you that', rather than "I can't tell you that'. Made me wonder if this is an AI written book. I also can't find out any info on the author. But between the language and the book being more of a mystery, I do not think I will continue with the series.
And I just have to say, the language in this book is odd. There are no contractions from anyone, but 1 time. The little girl once said, while sitting in a chicken coop, 'I ain't ...', making her sound like some country hick, which she never spoke like that otherwise. But everyone says, 'I can not tell you that', rather than "I can't tell you that'. Made me wonder if this is an AI written book. I also can't find out any info on the author. But between the language and the book being more of a mystery, I do not think I will continue with the series.
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