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    Mail Order Bride: The Summer Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #20
    Mail Order Bride: The Summer Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #20
    Mail Order Bride: The Summer Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #20
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    Mail Order Bride: The Summer Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #20

    By Kenneth Markson

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    Mail Order Bride: The Summer Bride: A Sweet Clean Historical Mail Order Bride Western Victorian Romance (Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides Book 20) is a sweet, clean, inspirational western romance novelette..

    When Sacramento is engulfed by a terrible flood, pretty Donna heads to Idaho City to become a mail order bride during the Idaho gold rush. But all that glitters is not gold, and evil men want land that isn't theirs. Who will help Donna in her plight? Will she find the love that she yearns for?

    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 dateMar 23, 2017
    ISBN9781386703907
    Mail Order Bride: The Summer Bride: Redeemed Western Historical Mail Order Brides, #20
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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

      Donna Allison had a vivid recollection of that fateful morning.  No one who survived that day in Sacramento could ever forget it.  The early morning began, like many before it, with the sound of pounding rain.

      Donna wiped the sleep from her eyes and peered out from the window of the old, one story, wooden home where she had, until her Aunt's recent passing, resided with her Aunt Theresa.

      Dear God, Donna muttered to herself as she listened to the howling wind, when will this incessant rain ever end?

      Donna was a pretty young woman of nineteen with red hair and soft blue eyes.  She was left an orphan at an early age, and had been raised by her Aunt.  They lived in the poorest section of the city, and struggled to survive on a daily basis. 

      This was especially true during the past year, when Aunt Theresa's health deteriorated rapidly, and she was no longer able to work.  Donna brought home a meager amount of money as a seamstress, and this was enough to allow them to eke by.

      Sacramento itself, stood at the junction of the American and Sacramento Rivers.  The valley which laid before it, was wide and flat, right up to the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  At that moment in 1862, California's new capital was an important commercial and agricultural center, and a main terminal for stagecoaches, the pony express, and riverboats from San Francisco.

      The people took pride in their city which was the home of the young state's Governor and legislature.  Nine years earlier, the main business section of the growing city was raised four feet by filling the streets with dirt. Then a levee was built around the city.

      The expansive bank of earth stretched for two miles along the American River, and for another three miles on the bank of the Sacramento River.  The local people were proud and confident that they were safe from any natural disaster.  As with most things made by human beings, that confidence turned out to be misplaced.

      Chapter 2

      A series of events caused a giant flood, the likes of which no one in the area had ever seen in their lifetime.  Unseasonably warm temperatures combined with the relentless rain to melt the snowpack on the Sierra Nevada Mountains, causing a vast flow of water to cascade down the mountainsides onto the defenseless valley and city below.  At the same

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