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Bride Series #1
Indentured Bride
Following the suspicious suicide of her father, Jennifer Matthews is whisked off to Maryland with her oily uncle, Julian Carlman. On her first night in Julian's home, following his attempt to rape her Jennifer strikes and kills him. Certain no one will believe her Jennifer runs into the night and seeks refuge in a box car. As the train travels to an unknown destination Jennifer tries to sort out her future. Arriving in Virginia she meets up with a ground of women headed to Adler Creek, Wyoming as mail order brides. Thinking she will be safe with the group until she can strike out on her own, Jennifer changes her name to Jenna and begins forming her new identity. Each time she tries to leave the "bride train" someone stops her and before she knows it, she is not only in Adler Creek, but she has a perspective groom--Deputy Sheriff Brett Parker.
Brett Parker is the middle son of the Parker family. Older brother Kendrick is a blond haired, blue eyed, United States Marshal, Brett is the black haired, blue eyed, Deputy Sheriff of Adler Creek and their younger brother Wolf is a full blooded Cheyenne warrior. Even though handsome and fairly well to do, Brett has had little luck with women and one incident several years earlier left soured on the prospect of marriage. That is, until, he hears of one woman on the Bride Train who seems to have some sort of problem. Sight unseen Brett knows she is the woman he has waited a life time for and before Jenna knows what is happening she finds herself married to Brett. As she finds herself falling deeper and deeper in love with him her fear that one day soon a warrant for her arrest will arrive making her lose all she is coming to hold dear. For Jenna there could be no worse fate than to be arrested by her own husband....well almost none.
Brett Parker is the middle son of the Parker family. Older brother Kendrick is a blond haired, blue eyed, United States Marshal, Brett is the black haired, blue eyed, Deputy Sheriff of Adler Creek and their younger brother Wolf is a full blooded Cheyenne warrior. Even though handsome and fairly well to do, Brett has had little luck with women and one incident several years earlier left soured on the prospect of marriage. That is, until, he hears of one woman on the Bride Train who seems to have some sort of problem. Sight unseen Brett knows she is the woman he has waited a life time for and before Jenna knows what is happening she finds herself married to Brett. As she finds herself falling deeper and deeper in love with him her fear that one day soon a warrant for her arrest will arrive making her lose all she is coming to hold dear. For Jenna there could be no worse fate than to be arrested by her own husband....well almost none.
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First published March 14, 2008
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August 9, 2015
The first half was good but around the halfway mark it started to lag. It seemed as if the author wasn't sure where to go with the story and felt a little choppy and forced. The editing was a little rough too. But overall the story was good and I stayed with it to the end.
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