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    The Millionaire's Choice: Mail Order Brides West
    The Millionaire's Choice: Mail Order Brides West
    The Millionaire's Choice: Mail Order Brides West
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    The Millionaire's Choice: Mail Order Brides West

    By LeeAnn Mackenzie

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     A western novelette from the author of the Bestselling Mail Order Mrs. Series:

    Some fences were made to be torn down...

    Hope Branson arrived on the Oregon frontier as a mail order bride. Life in Marshall's Ridge was good until her husband died. After a poor harvest, she's in danger of losing her farm, the only home their young son has ever known.

    Tall, rugged  Wyatt Cutler has returned home to take control of his family's large ranch. Wyatt is a man who can't resist helping a neighbor in need, especially one as beautiful and headstrong as Hope.

    Their attraction: undeniable.
    His secret:unavoidable.

    Wyatt and Hope were destined to be together and they'll soon Discover that this time, love is playing for keeps...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLovely Romance Publications
    Release dateJan 22, 2014
    ISBN9781497775954
    The Millionaire's Choice: Mail Order Brides West

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      The Millionaire's Choice - LeeAnn Mackenzie

      This book is a work  of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, either living or dead, is purely intentional. Any physical locations, brands, products mentioned are solely used in a fictitious sense.

      Chapter 1

      Late

      1800's

      Marshall's Ridge, Oregon

      One last fourth of July. She owned that to Josh, at least. There had been so much sadness when David had died and Hope couldn't bear the thought of looking in her son's eyes and seeing the disappointment reflected there when she told him about the farm.    

      Even with a short delay, it wouldn't be much longer before they would have to pack their belongings and leave the only home that Josh had ever known.  Hope felt a mix of sadness, trepidation and disappointment. The dream of passing on the farm one day to her  son now seemed an utter impossibility.

      But before she lamented for too long, Hope assured herself that The Lord never gave one more than one could bear. Hope was certain that he would look out for her and her son, through this latest travail.

      It was hard to believe that it had been 10 years since she had left Illinois so full of excitement and dreams. Hope had answered an advertisement that appeared in the Tribune newspaper, for a mail order bride. An orphan, Hope was none too sad to bid farewell to the city where she had lost her parents and make a new life for herself out west. Twenty years her senior, with an easy going disposition and gentle spirit, David Branson had been good husband and  father. And the first years after they married, life in the valley had been good.

      Then there had been the drought, followed by the heavy rains and now a bad crop that the small farm couldn't recover from.  Harvesting was done and money was in short supply. Hope had been forced  to dismiss her hired help, since she would have no means to continue to pay them, therefore she had no help to get the next season's crop in.

      With her mortgage in arrears, the debt was too substantial to save her farm. There seemed to be no relief, other than  to move to town temporarily. Virginia Moretti, who ran the milliner shop,  had offered her a job when Hope confided her dire situation. That would provide the means so that she and Josh would have room and board at the town boarding house.

      This was the best plan until Hope could figure out where the future lie. She was used to hard work and there

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