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    Mail Order Bride: The Disfigured Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #16
    Mail Order Bride: The Disfigured Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #16
    Mail Order Bride: The Disfigured Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #16
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    Mail Order Bride: The Disfigured Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #16

    By Kenneth Markson

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    Mail Order Bride: The Disfigured Bride: A Sweet Clean Historical Mail Order Bride Western Victorian Romance (Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides Book 16) is a sweet, clean, inspirational western romance novelette.

    A terrible accident in Cleveland suddenly leaves pretty, dark haired parlormaid Connie disfigured. Edward is a lonely Texas rancher looking for a wife. Connie departs Ohio for Texas. Some think they're not strong enough to succeed. Are they wrong? Will true love prevail?

    If you enjoyed this story, you may also enjoy the other books in Kenneth's mail order brides Redeemed series, or Kenneth's mail order brides Rescued series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKenneth Markson
    Release dateJan 5, 2017
    ISBN9781386958048
    Mail Order Bride: The Disfigured Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #16
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    Kenneth Markson

    While an English major at college, I wrote a column which was published weekly. I have been writing ever since. The old West and Los Angeles in the forties are eras which lend themselves to tales of romance, courage, and fast paced adventure. I particularly enjoy writing stories about the mail order brides who fearlessly took a chance and traveled West, hoping to find love and a better future. Many of the locales that I write about are places that I have either traveled through or actually lived in. I try to make my works richly accurate. My desire is to provide you with an entertaining and fun read. When I'm not writing, I enjoy spending time with my wife and two children.

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      Mail Order Bride - Kenneth Markson

      To my wife and children, always.

      Chapter 1

      Connie Lawson completed her morning task of finishing cleaning the front reception areas of the Middleton mansion.  For the past three months, she had been employed as a parlormaid in the house of Horace and Joyce Middleton.  Horace Middleton was one of Cleveland's most prominent bankers.

      The Middleton home was worlds away from the poor section of the city where Connie had resided with her grandmother up until her death.  Her parents had died when she was very young, and she had been raised by her grandmother.  Until she obtained this job, she and her grandmother had lived together in a cramped, rented space in an old house.

      The size of the place had never mattered to Connie.  It was the love within that counted.  Not a day went by since her death, that she didn't think of her grandmother and miss her.

      She moved down a long hallway past a set of curios which contained numerous sterling silver and gold artifacts, as well as collections of fine china.  At the end of the hallway was a small room which the housekeeper had designated as her office. Connie knew the dour middle-aged woman with the hard eyes as Winnifred.

      She apparently had a big hand in raising the lady of the house, Joyce Middleton, who referred to her as Winnie.  No one else dared address her as anything other than ma'am. Those hard blue eyes of the housekeeper glanced at her as she approached.

      Yes, what is it? a voice snapped.

      I've completed my morning chores, ma'am, Connie replied, and I'd like to take my lunch break.

      The housekeeper grudgingly acknowledged, with an air of annoyance, that Connie had the right to have some time for lunch.

      Alright, she responded in a forced tone, but take care to be back here in half an hour on the dot.  The mistress needs you to serve tea and dessert in the reception room to her guests, early this afternoon.

      Understood, ma'am, Connie said in a compliant manner.  Thank you, ma'am, she continued, and then she headed towards the front entrance.

      There were moments during the day, Connie reflected, as she grabbed her lunch and a shawl to put around her shoulders, when she would have liked to have given the old battle-axe a swift kick in the shins.  But, she needed this job desperately.  It provided her with room and board, and a small compensation which she had just begun to save.

      Carrying her lunch, Connie went past the front gate

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