Mail Order Bride - Susannah Calloway - Bog

Nan Lambert will do anything to land a better situation for her mother and herself. So when the chance to become a Mail Order Bride appears, she grabs it. She will go west, get settled, and then send for her mother. On the train, a charming stranger enters her compartment. She discovers that he's her fiancé's cousin, checking her out, so to speak. When they both arrive in Rose Valley, Nan meets her fiancé. But something is wrong. Emit is distant, stand-offish, and not at all the way he was in his letters. He grinds ahead with their wedding plans, and Nan squelches her doubts. When a runaway wagon nearly kills a woman, Nan discovers the truth about her fiancé. With nowhere to go and her future in ruins, she takes the job of housekeeper. But her boss just happens to be Emit's cousin, the same man from the train, and he has other ideas.Will Nan land on her feet? Will she ever be able to bring her mother west to join her?