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    Widowed Mail Order Bride Makes Illegal Marriage Vows: The Murphy Cowboy Brothers Looking For Love: Sweet Colorado Love, #2
    Widowed Mail Order Bride Makes Illegal Marriage Vows: The Murphy Cowboy Brothers Looking For Love: Sweet Colorado Love, #2
    Widowed Mail Order Bride Makes Illegal Marriage Vows: The Murphy Cowboy Brothers Looking For Love: Sweet Colorado Love, #2
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    Widowed Mail Order Bride Makes Illegal Marriage Vows: The Murphy Cowboy Brothers Looking For Love: Sweet Colorado Love, #2

    By Lillis Lawson

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    It is 1871 and Rosie Landerback decides to become a Mail Order Bride.

    Rosie Landerback lives in Kentucky with her abusive husband, Allan Arley. She hates her marriage, but she does not see any alternative in her life than to keep going. But then her husband Allan Arley disappears after a fight in the middle of the night and his body is found dead in the river. She finds herself thrown into poverty and decides to become a Mail Order Bride to Jesse, a gentle cowboy from Colorado, who she falls in Love with.

    And then Allan Arley returns. He follows Rosie’s trail to Colorado and accuses her of living in Bigamy and demands his wife to go back to him. He promises Rosie that he has changed his bad habits and will make her a good husband. But Rosie does not trust him anymore and asks him for a divorce which he does not want to grant her.

    Will Rosie return to her first husband or will Jesse, who has fallen in Love with his Mail Order Bride, be able to make his marriage to Rosie legal?

    ***These Books Are Sweet, Clean, Christian Historical Western, Short Romance Stories ***

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLillis Lawson
    Release dateAug 11, 2015
    ISBN9781516362240
    Widowed Mail Order Bride Makes Illegal Marriage Vows: The Murphy Cowboy Brothers Looking For Love: Sweet Colorado Love, #2

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      Widowed Mail Order Bride Makes Illegal Marriage Vows - Lillis Lawson

      Introduction

      This is the second book in The Murphy Cowboy Brothers Looking For Love Series. This is Rosie 's story. All three books can be read alone. They are complete stories but if you would like to read them in order:

      Odelia’s story is book one: Boston Belle Bride Meets Gambling Addicted Cowboy

      Rosie’s story is book two: Widowed Mail Order Bride Makes Illegal Marriage Vows

      Elizabeth’s story is book three: "Steady Cowboy Meets Runaway Mail Order Bride

      All books are just $ 0.99.

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      Chapter 1

      Kentucky, 1871

      Rosie Landerback scraped her bowl clean. She scraped down the sides of the bowl until every fleck of cornmeal was gone from its enamel surface. The corn mush provided by her neighbor Nell was actually delicious, flavored with bacon fat, and probably the only food she would eat that day.

      Nell, a pleasantly round woman who mothered everyone in their little valley, scowled. I see how you’re eating. Don’t have two nickels to rub together, do you? Look at you, skin and bones! That sorry sot left you with nothing.

      Young Rosie, a beautiful, slender woman of about twenty-three, dipped her head. She drained her coffee cup and set it down gently. Nell, you know I’m not one to defame the dead.

      Yes, well, perhaps he needs defaming! Nell snorted and bustled around the table, pouring a second cup of Arbuckle's for Rosie. The way that man treated you! Drinking, gambling, running off and leaving you for weeks on end! And then, when you thought you were shut of him, showing up and shooting that man! Right in the street!

      Rosie was too polite to cover her ears. They never proved he shot Joe McAllister.  There were no witnesses. And nobody can ask him now.

      The plaintive note in Rosie’s voice made Nell pause. She walked over to Rosie and patted her shoulder. For that rat to treat you so poorly and then go and drown in the river. I’m so sorry you were dealt such a husband. I wish Allan Arley Bennett had never been born, and I’m not the only one.

      The younger woman spread her hands and shrugged. Well, we can’t wish that he’d never been born! Now we're just ridiculous. Besides, I have to move on with my life. It’s been nine months, they found a body in the river, and I can’t just do nothing.

      Nell folded her hands over her stomach and fixed Rosie with a firm stare. So do you have any plans? Something to put food in your belly and let people see that pretty face?

      Rosie placed her hand over the pocket in her apron, where a thick letter formed a comforting lump under her palm. Yes, I think I do, Nell. I, well, I met a man through the mail. A man who is looking for a wife. He wants me to come and live with him in Colorado.

      The portly neighbor raised a hand to her brow. Rosie! My word! You, a mail order bride! You must be joking!

      "No, Nell, I’m really not. We’ve been writing letters for three months already. I answered a newspaper ad one day

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