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    Mail Order Bride - A Bride for Daniel: Sun River Brides, #6
    Mail Order Bride - A Bride for Daniel: Sun River Brides, #6
    Mail Order Bride - A Bride for Daniel: Sun River Brides, #6
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    Mail Order Bride - A Bride for Daniel: Sun River Brides, #6

    By Karla Gracey

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    Alice Springham has worked as a maid in a top Boston hotel since she was a girl. But she is feeling restless. Not knowing what she wants she answers an advertisement in the Matrimonials that made her smile. She has no idea if it is love she is missing, or if she even wants to wed. Will she ever learn what it is she truly wants? 

    Lonely farmer, Daniel Havering, longs for love and a family. He almost had everything he wanted, only to have it cruelly snatched away from him. When he advertised for a bride he thought he was past his hurts, but the past has a horrible tendency of turning up and making trouble all over again. Can he find the way to leave the past behind him, or will it haunt him forever and leave him lonely?
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKarla Gracey Books
    Release dateAug 6, 2016
    ISBN9781536561791
    Mail Order Bride - A Bride for Daniel: Sun River Brides, #6

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      Mail Order Bride - A Bride for Daniel - Karla Gracey

      Mail Order Bride

      A Bride for Daniel

      Sun River Brides: Book 6

      Karla Gracey

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

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      Chapter One

      Alice sighed. Whenever she received a letter from her friend, Maggie, she felt that her life was somehow not exciting enough. Her vivid descriptions of the new world she had found herself in were so enticing. The rugged mountains, the handsome farmers and ranchers, and the wonderful friends she was making were torment enough, but when she regaled the tales of how perfect her new husband was it just made Alice feel very lonely indeed. Her life was not supposed to have turned out this way. When she had moved to Boston to take up a position as a chambermaid in Young’s Hotel, she had thought that she couldn’t possibly want for anything more. Sadly, years of cleaning up after the guests, working long hours and barely having a moment to herself had disabused her of the glamour of her position.

      Maggie had been lucky. She was one of those women who hadn’t been afraid to take her future into her own hands, had placed an advertisement to find herself a husband. But, Alice read the newspapers, most women who answered such advertisements, let alone those that took the risk of placing them, were not so lucky. She had come upon lurid tales of ambush, kidnap, and much worse when she had first learned what Maggie intended to do. But now, it seemed that Sun River was becoming a haven for contented and even loving pairings. Alice was pleased for her, but she couldn’t help being more than a little jealous as she read Maggie’s latest news – it seemed that a loving husband was not enough, she now had a child on the way too.

      A knock on her door made her jump out of her skin. Alice love, could you possibly help me today? Cook’s voice called through the closed door.  I know this is your day off, but the owner’s coming by, bringing a whole party with him. That man is the devil for late notice. But, what can I do? Alice opened the door, Ellen looked almost frantic. She grinned at her, and gave the older woman a quick hug.

      Ellen, of course I will. I know you still haven’t found anyone suitable to take Maggie’s place, and the amount of work doesn’t change. Mr Reed-Whipple I presume?

      Yes. Mr Hall at least has the decency to give me a day or two’s notice! Ellen looked frazzled. Alice wished there was a way to reassure her, but they had little to no influence over their employers, and she was sure that if anyone tried to point out to the indomitable pairing that they needed to be more considerate that the person would find themselves out of a position – and without a character. They would be unlikely to ever find work in Boston, or along much of the East Coast, ever again.

      Just give me five minutes and I shall come down, Alice told her friend. Ellen nodded, and looking a little soothed made her way back to the kitchens.

      Alice tidied away her letter, and changed out of her smart muslin dress, and into a plain grey work one. She slipped a crisp white pinafore over the top and wondered if she would ever be permitted to have an entire day to herself. She couldn’t remember the last time she had been able to enjoy her day off. There was always some kind of crisis that desperately needed her. She didn’t blame Maggie for wanting something more at all. She couldn’t help but think that there had to be a better life than the one she was living.

      Ellen had her up to her elbows in flour within moments of her setting foot in the kitchens. A game pie had been requested, and there was bread to be made too. While Ellen’s assistants got on with the daily requirements for the guests and the dining room, the two of them would prepare an entire banquet for thirty-two people. Ellen had been the Head Cook at Young’s for almost ten years now, and had worked for the inimitable Mr

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