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    Mail Order Bride: The Widowed & Pregnant English Orphan & Her Rancher In California
    Mail Order Bride: The Widowed & Pregnant English Orphan & Her Rancher In California
    Mail Order Bride: The Widowed & Pregnant English Orphan & Her Rancher In California
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    Mail Order Bride: The Widowed & Pregnant English Orphan & Her Rancher In California

    By Doreen Milstead

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    This is a beautiful love story about an abused woman, pregnant by her dead and abusive husband, then traveling all the way to California only to be rejected by her intended mail order husband. She ends up working in a boarding house in town for a loud and uncouth couple, until her pregnancy is in the end stages and she has no idea what she’ll do next.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Hart
    Release dateFeb 2, 2016
    ISBN9781310711695
    Mail Order Bride: The Widowed & Pregnant English Orphan & Her Rancher In California

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      Mail Order Bride - Doreen Milstead

      Mail Order Bride: The Widowed & Pregnant English Orphan & Her Rancher In California

      By

      Doreen Milstead

      Copyright 2016 The Sweet Romance Network Presents…

      Synopsis: This is a beautiful love story about an abused woman, pregnant by her dead and abusive husband, then traveling all the way to California only to be rejected by her intended mail order husband. She ends up working in a boarding house in town for a loud and uncouth couple, until her pregnancy is in the end stages and she has no idea what she’ll do next.

      London England

      February 1888

      Though the last name on the headstone matched her own, Eveline Abernathy felt no attachment to the man beneath the chilled earth. She’d been married to Ezekiel Abernathy for just two years, and she’d hated him after only one month of that time.

      The still healing bruises on her arms and the scar on her right cheek proved the man to have been a monster. It had been a relief when he fell under a wagon in a drunken haze. If Eveline had known him to have a great love of alcohol, she would have run away. But she hadn’t known. Instead of finding an escape from the streets she’d grown up on, she’d found a tyrant.

      Now she stood knee deep in snow. The cold wind slashed at her legs and pushed the hem of her dress up. Eveline didn’t care. The only people around were two gravediggers. She’d paid the last of her meager funds to have Ezekiel buried. He’d left his entire estate to a brother of equally wretched character. As a result, Eveline had been very creative. She had found a way like she always had. She turned from the grave and walked away from what was left of her husband. She would never come back.

      Eveline signed in on the deck of The Marriage and told the man sitting at the small table she had just the small bag slung across her back. When she’d signed on with Byron’s Brides, the man had promised her she would be safe between London and California.

      She was to meet her future husband - Thomas Last - in San Francisco. Then, they would go to Angel’s Valley, where he lived. Eveline knew her life was likely to be taken over by the man, just like when she’d married Ezekiel. She didn’t care. London was no place for a woman with nowhere to go. As a tall, thin man with a white beard led Eveline below deck, she knew that her fate could be no worse in America than in England.

      Eveline looked around the large cabin. It was long and relatively narrow with about fifty cots on each side. Most of them had women seated on them, all of whom looked either excited for a new adventure or, like Eveline, as though life had taken too much for them to be excited.

      A bed at the far side of the cabin seemed empty and Eveline moved briskly towards it, hoping nobody came out of the woodwork to steal it. Upon reaching the cot, Eveline sat down for a moment and breathed deeply. Jesus, she prayed silently, guard this ship and look kindly on all the girls here. Bring us safely to our new homes. Amen.

      If there was one thing Eveline had learned from Ezekiel, it was that Jesus was the only man who cared about women like her. She was twenty years old and had already been dealt a poor hand. She was an orphan. The man who was supposed to ‘cherish’ her had done the opposite,

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