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Women of Primrose Creek #1
Bridget
They are the women of Primrose Creek, and their strength and passion is a match for the Nevada frontier they call home. Linda Lael Miller masterfully captures the hardships and dangers of a country swept by the winds of war -- and the daring and determination, the hopes and dreams of four unforgettable women -- in a thrilling new series. When Bridget McQuarry comes to settle in Primrose Creek, she has nothing to lose; her husband, Mitch, was killed in the Civil War, and she has lost her family farm to ruinous Reconstruction taxes. With her baby son and a sister to care for, Bridget vows to make a new start out West. But when Mitch's best friend reappears in her life, he sparks a forbidden passion she thought was forever buried.
Trace Qualtrough grew up with Bridget and Mitch -- three happy childhood friends. But the attraction that fluttered between him and Bridget was silenced when she married Mitch. Now, Trace has come to fulfill Mitch's final wish -- to watch over the lovely, spirited Bridget. And now, Bridget and Trace must discover if their restless desire is a shattering betrayal -- or something sweeter the second time around.
Trace Qualtrough grew up with Bridget and Mitch -- three happy childhood friends. But the attraction that fluttered between him and Bridget was silenced when she married Mitch. Now, Trace has come to fulfill Mitch's final wish -- to watch over the lovely, spirited Bridget. And now, Bridget and Trace must discover if their restless desire is a shattering betrayal -- or something sweeter the second time around.
149 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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Linda Lael Miller
552 books3,218 followersThe daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West. Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a spacious property outside Spokane.
Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. She has read literally hundreds of books on the subject, explored numerous battlegrounds and made many visits to her favorite, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she has witnessed re-enactments of the legendary clash between North and South. Linda explores that turbulent time in The Yankee Widow, a May 7, 2019 MIRA Books hardcover, also available in digital and audiobook formats.
Dedicated to helping others, “The First Lady of the West” personally financed fifteen years of her Linda Lael Miller Scholarships for Women, which she awarded to women 25 years and older who were seeking to improve their lot in life through education. She anticipates that her next charitable endeavors will benefit four-legged critters.
More information about Linda and her novels is available at www.lindalaelmiller.com, on Facebook and from Nancy Berland Public Relations, nancy@nancyberland.com, 405-206-4748.
Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. She has read literally hundreds of books on the subject, explored numerous battlegrounds and made many visits to her favorite, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she has witnessed re-enactments of the legendary clash between North and South. Linda explores that turbulent time in The Yankee Widow, a May 7, 2019 MIRA Books hardcover, also available in digital and audiobook formats.
Dedicated to helping others, “The First Lady of the West” personally financed fifteen years of her Linda Lael Miller Scholarships for Women, which she awarded to women 25 years and older who were seeking to improve their lot in life through education. She anticipates that her next charitable endeavors will benefit four-legged critters.
More information about Linda and her novels is available at www.lindalaelmiller.com, on Facebook and from Nancy Berland Public Relations, nancy@nancyberland.com, 405-206-4748.
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August 24, 2017
I'll be honest, I didn't love this one. I'm a big fan of Linda Lael Miller, but this early work just wasn't what I have come to expect form her. Bridget lost everything in the civil war and has moved her son and sister out west for a new start. Her best childhood friend has followed her and wants to make a life with her.
I just wasn't feeling it with this book. I found Bridget's treatment of Trace exhausting. He was trying to help her and she treated him like dirt. For something that wasn't his fault. The affection was one sided for way too long and I wasn't convinced in the end that they were in love. The end action scene didn't make much sense to me. But I will admit that I did skim parts of the book, so that may have had a factor in my confusion. In all, I wouldn't really recommend this one. I may try the second one, but it won't be a priority.
I just wasn't feeling it with this book. I found Bridget's treatment of Trace exhausting. He was trying to help her and she treated him like dirt. For something that wasn't his fault. The affection was one sided for way too long and I wasn't convinced in the end that they were in love. The end action scene didn't make much sense to me. But I will admit that I did skim parts of the book, so that may have had a factor in my confusion. In all, I wouldn't really recommend this one. I may try the second one, but it won't be a priority.
March 15, 2025
This story was sweet and fast paced.
I didn't mind that it was short. I thought the story and their background was pretty well developed. Its not my favorite from LLM but I still enjoyed it.
I didn't mind that it was short. I thought the story and their background was pretty well developed. Its not my favorite from LLM but I still enjoyed it.
November 22, 2019
Always been a fan of the author's books and this one wasn't any different. It was a touching listen that I found quite enjoyable. Can't wait to listen to the next one.
November 16, 2017
The first of four Women of Primrose Creek. Bridget is a widow with a son. Trace comes to help her as her husband wanted him to do.
She is made that he talked her husband into going to war and he gets killed.
But Trace stays to help.
They work to out their differences and find their love that is made just for them.
Their love is just the beginning of this series of the four women who find the man that was just for them.
She is made that he talked her husband into going to war and he gets killed.
But Trace stays to help.
They work to out their differences and find their love that is made just for them.
Their love is just the beginning of this series of the four women who find the man that was just for them.
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June 13, 2021Love it!
I have read this book over and over again, about every 6 months. It's simple and exciting. A love story also. I have always imagined myself there with them like I was one of the characters-exciting.
I have read this book over and over again, about every 6 months. It's simple and exciting. A love story also. I have always imagined myself there with them like I was one of the characters-exciting.
March 13, 2023
good western romance
Short but good western romance. This is the first of a series of sisters and cousins. Starting over in a new state with just Bridget, her sister and her 4 year old son. Based after the civil war.
Short but good western romance. This is the first of a series of sisters and cousins. Starting over in a new state with just Bridget, her sister and her 4 year old son. Based after the civil war.
December 28, 2018
Sweet short read. No character development
May 28, 2019
Great
This story started with the heartbreak of death and war. In the end the life a Bridget was altered and love filled her heart once again.
This story started with the heartbreak of death and war. In the end the life a Bridget was altered and love filled her heart once again.
August 19, 2020
I enjoyed the characters and the plot. A sweet and wholesome romance. Happy reading and listening!
April 21, 2022
3.5/4 Stars ⭐️
April 1, 2023
Bridget by Linda Lael Miller – A second chance romance Western with a fiery family of women determined to claim their inheritance. Happy Reading!
May 15, 2023
Bridget
A really good love story and full of danger and new beginnings about the settling of the west and the strong men and women who had the courage to settle there
A really good love story and full of danger and new beginnings about the settling of the west and the strong men and women who had the courage to settle there
March 31, 2025
Nice quick read. When you want to just read something to kill time.
July 3, 2025
great read
I’ve read so many of her novels and this one is even better, if that’s possible than the last one I read.
I’ve read so many of her novels and this one is even better, if that’s possible than the last one I read.
February 4, 2019
Not especially thrilled with this book. Her books are usually better then this one. Hope the next one reads better.
February 10, 2023
They are the women of Primrose Creek, and their strength and passion is a match for the Nevada frontier they call home. Linda Lael Miller masterfully captures the hardships and dangers of a country swept by the winds of war -- and the daring and determination, the hopes and dreams of four unforgettable women -- in a thrilling new series. When Bridget McQuarry comes to settle in Primrose Creek, she has nothing to lose; her husband, Mitch, was killed in the Civil War, and she has lost her family farm to ruinous Reconstruction taxes. With her baby son and a sister to care for, Bridget vows to make a new start out West. But when Mitch's best friend reappears in her life, he sparks a forbidden passion she thought was forever buried.
Trace Qualtrough grew up with Bridget and Mitch -- three happy childhood friends. But the attraction that fluttered between him and Bridget was silenced when she married Mitch. Now, Trace has come to fulfill Mitch's final wish -- to watch over the lovely, spirited Bridget. And now, Bridget and Trace must discover if their restless desire is a shattering betrayal -- or something sweeter the second time around.
Trace Qualtrough grew up with Bridget and Mitch -- three happy childhood friends. But the attraction that fluttered between him and Bridget was silenced when she married Mitch. Now, Trace has come to fulfill Mitch's final wish -- to watch over the lovely, spirited Bridget. And now, Bridget and Trace must discover if their restless desire is a shattering betrayal -- or something sweeter the second time around.
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February 26, 2023
I am trying to explore other LLM series after falling in like with the Painted Pony Creek books. I’m not sure how I landed on the Primrose Creek series, but maybe I went too far back in her catalog? I admit, I kept getting infiltrated by feminist subconscious complaining, but after I countered that with knowledge of the lives of women in that time period, I still felt like there was something missing. I have to agree with Kari’s review: the flirting was really one-sided and Bridget was pretty mean to Trace. I didn’t read any chemistry between them.
SPOILER! I yelled out “C’MON!” At the end when she finally gives in to Trace and her suffocated love after he rescues her from impending assault. That’s why I think I read this too late. One of the first romance novels I’ve ever read has a similar ending, but I read that as a teen. Adulting-grown-woman that I currently am found the suspension of belief difficult. This was a short, audiobook, so I’ll try the next in the series, but then I’m going to fast forward into LLM’s catalog for more current titles.
SPOILER! I yelled out “C’MON!” At the end when she finally gives in to Trace and her suffocated love after he rescues her from impending assault. That’s why I think I read this too late. One of the first romance novels I’ve ever read has a similar ending, but I read that as a teen. Adulting-grown-woman that I currently am found the suspension of belief difficult. This was a short, audiobook, so I’ll try the next in the series, but then I’m going to fast forward into LLM’s catalog for more current titles.
March 26, 2015
I always love Linda Lael Miller's writing but this one was a quick book that I feel could have been written longer. It was a good story line about life right after the Civil War and the hardships that they faced. Though in this book a lot of action happened at the end of the book and it happened so fast. I just wish that was a longer part of the book. That scene could have been lengthen that is for sure. Over all though it was a good book and I can't wait to read the rest of the series. There were a lot of loose ends in this book which I'm assuming are beginnings to the three other books in the series.
July 12, 2019
This was a really nice, quick read. The plot itself isn't particularly strong and I felt like the conflict at the end was extremely rushed, but given how short this book is I wasn't expecting much. I thought the H was sweet and likeable, though, so I kept reading if only to see what he would say/do next. The issue with Bridget's cousins wasn't interesting for me so I'm not really tempted to read the rest of the series, but I did enjoy this one.
February 22, 2016
The Women of Primrose Creek Series just popped up in my library. I love Linda Lael Miller stories and this one, though from 2002 is a winner. Love the stories of strong women and the men who fight for them. It is a short story and a lot is packed in on Bridget and Trace's story. Recommend this sweet story of the west and the men and women who fought for it. 4 stars
March 18, 2008
A great little story, I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to reading the rest of the series if I can find them.
January 24, 2011
Bridget has a hard time controlling her feelings for Trace.
August 10, 2011
Strong character, story of moving to the west and the trials she encounters with some surprises in it.
November 28, 2011
3.5 stars
December 13, 2011
An interesting story of life in the west and the hardships.
August 9, 2012
Short easy read, that was also fun.
October 16, 2012
This was another good series from Linda Lael Miller. It's about another set of four women who are related and how they fell in love in a small town.
April 23, 2015
Nice story
I enjoy stories with strong woman and the men who love them. This story did not disappoint. I look forward to reading more in this series.
I enjoy stories with strong woman and the men who love them. This story did not disappoint. I look forward to reading more in this series.
February 2, 2016
another great read of prairie days. Wish I could time travel....
April 21, 2016
Four stars
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-- anonymous staff member
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