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His Redemption: Mail Order Bride
Mail Order Bride Romance At the peak of the Civil War, Maybelle Harris is desperate to escape the violence and horror tearing through Pennsylvania. So desperate that she agrees to marry the first man who answers her ad for mail-order bride. Weeks later, she becomes Mrs. Horace Keaton, and she moves into a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Nothing but flat dirt surrounds the cabin, and the one cow her husband owns is clearly dying. Survival seems unlikely. But that becomes the least of her worries as Horace acts stranger and stranger around her. Something on the land spooks him, and he is determined to protect her from it at all cost. If only he would tell her what was really going on…
55 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2016
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About the author
Emily Parker
59 books28 followersEmily Parker is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" which will be published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February, 2014. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote that the book is "a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller. It's been a while since I have read a book that is so entertaining, not to mention so encouraging for the culture of liberty." Vargas Llosa's full article about "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are" can be found here: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/11...
Emily is currently digital diplomacy advisor and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where she has been writing her book and working on a US-China innovation project. Previously, Emily was a member of Secretary Clinton’s Policy Planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where she covered Internet freedom, digital diplomacy and open government.
Emily spent over five years working for The Wall Street Journal, first as a writer in Hong Kong and later as an editor in New York. From 2004 to 2005, she wrote a Wall Street Journal column called "Virtual Possibilities: China and the Internet." She was also a staff op-ed editor for The New York Times.
She has worked in China and Japan, and speaks Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated with Honors from Brown University with a double major in International Relations and Comparative Literature (French and Spanish). She has a Masters from Harvard in East Asian Studies.
Emily is currently digital diplomacy advisor and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where she has been writing her book and working on a US-China innovation project. Previously, Emily was a member of Secretary Clinton’s Policy Planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where she covered Internet freedom, digital diplomacy and open government.
Emily spent over five years working for The Wall Street Journal, first as a writer in Hong Kong and later as an editor in New York. From 2004 to 2005, she wrote a Wall Street Journal column called "Virtual Possibilities: China and the Internet." She was also a staff op-ed editor for The New York Times.
She has worked in China and Japan, and speaks Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated with Honors from Brown University with a double major in International Relations and Comparative Literature (French and Spanish). She has a Masters from Harvard in East Asian Studies.
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