Bride By Force: Mail Order Bride

by Emily Parker

Read it for free on Kindle Unlimited. Mail Order Bride Romance Grace Bookman is a young woman on the run trying to escape from a wicked plot hatched by her stepsister and brother in law. She flees to a town in the west where she meets a young farmer who is looking for a wife. Grace yearns for love and a man who will prove himself, and Darrell Winters wants a wife who can settle down to farm life and be his help. They hope to be able to fulfill each other’s deepest desires, but are also cautious about not getting into marriage for the wrong reasons. Forces from Grace’s past force Darrell’s hand and he kidnaps her because he cannot bear to lose her, nor that she will be used in other people’s evil machinations.

75 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2016

About the author

Emily 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.

Reviews

[eli trujillo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay

The first book was good but the second was not. It didn't explain how he convinced the Duke to end the engagement.

[Carolyn Overcash · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short, HEA

Short, sweet. Quick and easy read. Would
I've to read an expanded novel. Expansion would allow a deeper development in the characters.