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    Love By Trials Of Patience & Strength: A Pair of Mail Order Bride Romances
    Love By Trials Of Patience & Strength: A Pair of Mail Order Bride Romances
    Love By Trials Of Patience & Strength: A Pair of Mail Order Bride Romances
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    Love By Trials Of Patience & Strength: A Pair of Mail Order Bride Romances

    By Beth Overton

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    Mail Order Bride: The English Woman & Her Damaged Cowboy - A woman from England decides to get out of London and seek a husband in California and after corresponding with a cowboy, makes her way there. There is nothing to do when he’s gone for weeks at a time and she begins to get restless, until an idea about owning their own mercantile store forms. She is nervous about asking him but after something happens to her cowboy, she sees hope on the horizon.

    Mail Order Bride: The Divorced Bostonian & The Texas Rancher With A Difficult Mother - A woman from Boston, used to the high society there, decides to head west to the wide open spaces of Texas in order to be with her new fiancé and unknown to her, his very difficult and stubborn mother. She does her best to work with the mother but finally, things come to a head and she makes a difficult decision.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeth Overton
    Release dateFeb 4, 2016
    ISBN9781311735720
    Love By Trials Of Patience & Strength: A Pair of Mail Order Bride Romances
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    Beth Overton

    Beth Overton lives in Northern California with her husband and three cats. Besides writing romances, she loves to read everything she can get her hands on, as well as cooking up gourmet delights for her entire family.

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      Love By Trials Of Patience & Strength - Beth Overton

      Love By Trials Of Patience & Strength: A Pair of Mail Order Bride Romances

      By

      Beth Overton

      Copyright 2016 Quietly Blessed & Loved Press

      Mail Order Bride: The English Woman & Her Damaged Cowboy

      Mail Order Bride: The Divorced Bostonian & The Texas Rancher With A Difficult Mother

      Mail Order Bride: The English Woman & Her Damaged Cowboy

      Synopsis: Mail Order Bride: The English Woman & Her Damaged Cowboy - A woman from England decides to get out of London and seek a husband in California and after corresponding with a cowboy, makes her way there. There is nothing to do when he’s gone for weeks at a time and she begins to get restless, until an idea about owning their own mercantile store forms. She is nervous about asking him but after something happens to her cowboy, she sees hope on the horizon.

      Jenny Simpson had never experienced love - at least not the type of love shared by a woman and a man.

      This revelation came to her one day as she watched a young couple browsing in her place of employment, a fashionable ladies’ shop in downtown Liverpool.

      The young man listened intently as the girl described to Jenny the exact dress she wanted. Jenny was certain, from the look on his face, that her boyfriend did not care one whit for the type of frock she bought that day. And it was also clear by the manner in which he looked at her, that she could very well have worn an old potato sack and he would have found her to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

      The only man that had ever looked at Jenny that way had been her father, but he had been in his grave for three years now, having passed, along with her mother, when she was sixteen.

      Love – when would there be time for love? She worked ten hours a day, six days a week. Any free time she did have was spent taking care of her little brother and her grandmother. She did permit herself an hour or two on her day off to wander the streets of the city, looking in the windows of the stores in which she could not afford to shop. She never entered any of these establishments, what would be the point?

      She did, however, take note of items that she found to be appealing and would tell her grandmother all about them when she got home in time to cook the evening meal.

      Her grandmother would smile a pitying smile and lecture her on her dangers of spending her life in Liverpool.

      You’ll end up like me and your mother. Worn out before you’re twenty-five. You should be off to London, get a job and live a real life. There’s nothing for you here.

      But what kind of a job could I get? I don’t have much education and the only experience I have is in the shop. A job, which I should say, I am lucky to have. My friends are all barmaids and dishwashers. Besides, what would you and Peter do without me? Who would take care of you two?

      Her grandmother grunted, Peter is fourteen and can look after himself, if given a chance. You do dote on him so. And I’m not dead yet. I can look after the two of us. I have a bit of money that your grandfather left me, and Peter will be working soon. We’ll be okay.

      Why aren’t you prodding Peter to leave?

      It’s much different for men and you know that. You will never meet a proper man to marry if you stay here.

      Speaking of that, I must tell you about a young couple that came into the shop today.

      She related the tale of the love struck young man and how he had looked at his girlfriend.

      Her grandmother smiled and said, See, that’s what I am talking about. If you remain in Liverpool that will never happen to you.

      It happened to the girl in the shop.

      "If they were wealthy enough to be shopping in your store, their lives are nothing like ours. The rich lead lives quite apart from what we do. The best you’ll do here is another drunken man who may happen to have a job on the docks, if you’re lucky. Just look at your aunts.

      Other than Lucy, who was lucky enough to marry a farmer, their lives are an endless battle. I don’t want that for you. That is something I promised your mother as she lay dying from the influenza. Now, I have something I want you to take – no arguments.

      She reached into the pocket of her housedress, pulled out an envelope and handed it to Jenny.

      What’s this?

      It’s your new life. It’s not much but it will get you out of here and down to London.

      Jenny peered inside the envelope and her eyes grew wide, she had never seen so much money at one time in her life.

      I can’t take this. You must have saved your entire life to get this money.

      That is money I have been putting away for you since you were born. It was always going to be yours when the time was right. And this is the right time. There is a train to London that leaves tomorrow morning at ten, you will be on it.

      They argued for a full hour before Jenny realized that this was a battle she was not going to win, not that she ever won a battle with her grandmother. After dinner the two of them packed up Jenny’s belongings as Peter watched, offering advice on where to find work in London. Several of his friends, male and female, had made the move and he had written a list for her from information they had provided. This was obviously something that her brother and grandmother had been planning for some time. Jenny felt as if she was being thrown out of her home.

      In addition, I have written down the name and address of a rooming house. My friend Mary is living there and she says it’s cheap and clean. It’s full of girls like you, so you’ll have some friends.

      What do you mean ‘girls like me’ – are they all desperate old maids?

      They’re all northern girls, some from Liverpool and a lot from Manchester. You are not an old maid, but Grandma is right, you’ll just shrivel up here. Now let’s not make this a sad time, this is a time to celebrate. Let’s have a pint of lager.

      Whether it was from the lager or the events of the evening, she could not say, but Jenny’s head was spinning that night when she went to sleep on the sofa.

      The three of them arrived at the train station almost two hours early, Grandma was a stickler for being early. Jenny, on the other hand, liked to wait until the last possible minute, it made her feel busy, but more that that she was usually on a pretty tight schedule. Today was a treat for her, no anxiety about being late. When the time came for her to board the train, the three of them hugged, eyes filled with tears and Jenny was gone.

      The trip to London passed without incident and soon after her arrival Jenny found herself wandering around the city attempting to locate the rooming house that Peter’s friend had recommended.

      It was close to dinnertime when she tapped at the door, which was quickly answered by a fashionably dressed woman in her forties.

      Mrs. Hudson?

      The woman smiled and said, "Yes I

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