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    Pretty Brides Should Not Apply (Mail Order Bride): No Pretty Brides Wanted, #3
    Pretty Brides Should Not Apply (Mail Order Bride): No Pretty Brides Wanted, #3
    Pretty Brides Should Not Apply (Mail Order Bride): No Pretty Brides Wanted, #3
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    Pretty Brides Should Not Apply (Mail Order Bride): No Pretty Brides Wanted, #3

    By Leah White

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    Pretty Brides Should Not Apply: A Clean Western Historical Romance

    The year is 1880 and ugly duckling Henretta decides to become a Mail Order Bride.

    Henretta was the daughter of cotton growers. Their livelihood depended on the cotton crops. They were a large family who loved each other and would do anything for each other.

    However Henretta wanted more from life, so when she saw an ad for a mail-order bride in Ft. Riley Kansas that said pretty girls need not reply, she sent a reply hoping for an adventure and a husband. She received her reply from Travis, who was anxious for a bride. However, it would take time for Henretta to get what she needed for her new life and the long journey. In the meantime, her mother passed away, leaving her little sister needing the love and attention babies need. So Henretta agreed to take Mandy with her to Kansas to raise her as her own. Unfortunately, there was no time to let Travis know the change in plans so as she Mandy and her brother Jonathan embarked on their journey to Ft. Riley Kansas. Travis decided to surprise his new bride to be by meeting her when she would be changing trains for the final leg of her journey. Since he was looking for someone who wasn’t pretty, he was surprised to find the woman he was to marry was beautiful and had a husband and baby.  He decided to marry her but was also looking into her background still believing she was already married.

    Would the mystery clear up and would Travis find the Love he was hoping for? Or would his mistrust and jealousy destroy their future?

    ***Leah White writes clean Historical Western Mail Order Bride Romance books***

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeah White
    Release dateDec 3, 2016
    ISBN9781540197542
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      Pretty Brides Should Not Apply (Mail Order Bride) - Leah White

      Introduction

      This is the third book in the No Pretty Brides Wanted Series Series. This is Henretta's story. All four books can be read alone. They are complete stories but if you would like to read them in order:

      Angele’s story is book one. Read Angele’s story here: "Crippled Mail Order Bride Meets Sheriff."

      Gretchen’s story is book two. Read Gretchen’s story here: "Abused Mail Order Bride Meets Candy Maker."

      Henretta’s story is book three. Read Henretta’s story here: "Pretty Brides Should Not Apply."

      Emogene’s story is book four. Read Emogene’s story here: "The Two Timing Mail Order Bride."

      Chapter 1

      Dyer County Tennessee, 1880

      BRIDE WANTED. Must love animals and hard work. Pretty women need not apply.

      Henretta read the personal ads every week in the Dyersburg State Gazette, hoping to find something to remove her from her daily drudge of working in the cotton fields of Tennessee. Every morning before daybreak her mama would wake her and tell her to get a move on. Then she would get out of the bed she shared with her 6 sisters (4 slept across and one at the end, and baby Mandy in a dresser drawer on the floor beside her) wash her face in the washbasin, run down the path to the outhouse, and put on her work overalls. She only had one dress, and that was for Sunday. During the week, she had to dress like her brothers, in overalls and a calico shirt cut off an old shirtwaist dress, with work boots to protect her feet from the snakes in the field.

      Henretta noticed the mail-order bride advertisement immediately. She got a little smile on her face at the pretty women need not apply part. Finally, an ad written just for her, because pretty she wasn't. She was always hearing from her older brothers, she had 5 of them, You are as big as a mule and you look like one too. She took out her paper lunch sack and started writing a reply.

      I'm Henretta. I love animals, I work hard, and I'm big and ugly. Will you take me for your bride? Love, Henretta.

      She begged an envelope from the postmaster and a stamp, promising to pay when she got paid for chopping cotton, and sent the letter on its way to Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Kansas. From there the letter would be forwarded to Ft. Riley, Kansas, where the recipient would pick it up.

      As Henretta went about her chores in town, selling surplus eggs to the grocer for trade, delivering eggs and fresh butter to the housewives, she daydreamed about the handsome cowboy who put the ad in the Dyersburg State Gazette. He had to be tall and handsome, with dark hair and brooding eyes. She wondered about where he lived, although just about anywhere would be better than the sharecropper's shack her family of 14 shared in the backwoods of the county. Their little wooden shack covered in tarpaper with a dirt floor was home to the 14 of them. The boys slept in the living room on pallets on the living room floor, the girls in the back bedroom that held the washing tub and the chamber pot, and her parents in the nice bedroom with a real bedroom suite of a dresser and mirror with a matching bed. Her parents even had a fancy quilt on top and a crocheted under drape that reached to the floor.

      The kitchen completed the rest of the house with a wood stove and a big farm table. There were 15 mismatched chairs, one extra for company, and two wooden benches against the wall behind the wood stove. That warm spot was the best place for getting dressed in the winter when

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