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Authors: Cassie Hayes
Tags: #49er, #Cowboy, #old west, #Mail-Order Bride, #Romance, #Historical, #Western, #Pioneer, #Frontier, #Fiction, #Forever Love, #Victorian, #Christian, #Religious, #Faith, #Inspirational, #Gold Rush, #Sheriff, #Debutante, #Destitute, #Spoiled, #California, #Shotgun, #Gold Country, #Dangerous, #City Girl, #Stagecoach, #Outlaws, #Posse, #Villain, #Friendship, #Relationship, #Bachelor, #Single Woman
Emmy (Gold Rush Brides Book 2) (21 page)
She was happy she could hide her embarrassment in his chest.
“But maybe their luck’ll rub off on us, whaddya think?” He pulled back to gaze at her with all the love the world could ever hold. Tears welled in her eyes as she smiled up at him.
“It already has, Jack.”
She loved the little wrinkle his brow got when he was confused and fervently hoped their baby would inherit the trait. Taking his hand in hers, she guided it around to her belly and held it there.
“It already has.”
THE END
(really)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Today a quaint tourist spot, Nevada City was once one of the most important towns in California. It was ideally located about fifty miles from Sacramento and one hundred fifty miles from San Francisco, right on the doorstep of the gold fields. Thousands of men passed through the town every year seeking a brighter future for themselves and their families.
Nevada City during the early days of the Gold Rush was a rough town, full of mindless violence and vigilante justice. Even local law enforcement had a difficult time controlling angry mobs intent on bringing a man before ‘Judge Lynch’.
One of the few ‘liberties’ I took with history involved the timeline for the elections of the Nevada and Placer County sheriffs. Those elections didn’t actually take place for a few months after the counties were created — and, of course, Mason Wilder and Tom Watson were not the men elected!
I would like to thank the staff at the Searls Library and Doris Foley Historical Library in Nevada City for taking the time to show me any and all materials that could help me in writing this book. Special thanks to the ladies at Doris Foley for suggesting I contact the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. There I discovered the very first issue of
The Matrimonial News
, published in San Francisco on December 20, 1873, from which I ‘borrowed’ Roy’s ad almost verbatim.
This book wouldn’t be nearly as tidy without the watchful eyes of my lovely beta readers, who caught far too many embarrassing mistakes. So a big thanks to Rebecca Hartner, Bobbie Sue Brown, Rita Edwards, Linda Clayton, Sonnie Duchesne, Sara Ohmit, Laura Satterlee, Cathryn Pearson, Anna Gibson and Ronda Denny. All of these ladies are members of
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Did you miss
Gold Rush Brides: The Beginning?
Who needs a man? Certainly not Miss Delilah Price!
Abandoned by the man who ordered her as a mail-order bride, Delilah struggles to get by in Gold Rush-era San Francisco. Not willing to return to her father's restrictive home — or face the arduous six-month voyage back to Boston — she hatches a plan to start her own business. She'll never have to trust her future to a man again.
Jack Dalton struck it rich in the Sierra Nevada and is having a mighty fine time spending his gold at dance halls and saloons in town. He can't for the life of him figure out why so many of his drinking buddies are signing up for ads in the matchmaking paper snooty 'Miss Priss' is starting up. The last thing
he
wants to do is to settle down.
When an unscrupulous charlatan threatens to shatter Delilah's dream, Jack takes pity and steps in to lend a helping hand. Then he gets suckered into partnering with the very woman he desperately wants to avoid. Long hours working together force them to face their deepest fears and admit they're drawn toward one another. Can they let go of their pasts and find hope for their future or will they let their fears tear them apart?
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Don’t miss the Dalton Brides series, three connected western historical romances brought to you by Cassie Hayes, Kirsten Osbourne and Kit Morgan!
The Rancher’s Mail-Order Bride
by Kirsten Osbourne
Through no fault of her own, Gwen Blue found herself embroiled in a scandal that would set Beckham, Massachusetts on its ear, and get her locked in her room for two months. When she found herself betrothed to a man she found loathsome, she wanted nothing more than to disappear. When her sisters liberated her from her room and proposed a journey to Texas to visit an old school friend, she didn't have to be asked twice.
Walton Dalton always had a plan for his life. He'd spent years learning everything he needed to know about ranching, and he had a large parcel of land adjacent to his two brothers' land. Between the three of them, they were going to build a Texas ranching empire. For his empire, he needed a bride.
Without his brothers’ knowledge, Walt sends off for three mail order brides from a matchmaker in Beckham. He knows from the moment he sees ‘Gorgeous Gwen’ that she's meant to be his. Will she agree to the marriage? If she does, will she be able to get over her self-centered attitude and be a good wife?
by Kit Morgan
Libby Blue lived in the shadow of her sister’s accomplishments. Bonnie, the oldest, excelled at all things domestic and was the smartest of the three. Gwen, the middle sister, excelled at … well, Gwen was beautiful, so she didn’t have to excel at much else to get what she wanted. Libby tried as hard as she could to live up to both, but always seemed to fall short. But when Gwen is caught up in a major scandal, their father decides to marry Libby and her sisters off to the most un-eligible bachelors in Beckham to save the family’s reputation. Bonnie quickly devises a plan to escape their father’s wrath and sets it in motion. Libby might yet have a chance to prove herself! As a Mail-Order Bride!
Walton Dalton had a dream to build an empire. Or in this case, a ranch where he and his two brothers could work hard and love hard. Determined to see his dream come true, he sends for his brothers and they soon join him in Texas to claim the land and begin building. That took care of the ‘work’ part. But Walton fails to tell his brothers that he already sent for mail-order brides in order to take care of the ‘loving’ part.
Will Nate Dalton become Libby’s road to happiness? Or a slow path to misery because she still can’t measure up?
The Drifter’s Mail-Order Bride
by Cassie Hayes
He was a drifter, through and through. Could he give up his wanderlust for a mail-order bride he didn’t know was coming?
Having grown up in the shadow of two beautiful sisters, ‘Scrawny Bonnie’ Blue knows she doesn’t stand a chance at landing a good man in Beckham, Massachusetts. The only way she’ll find a husband is by leaving her family behind to become a mail order bride. But when all three Blue sisters are swept up in a scandal, she has no choice to but to take ‘Gorgeous Gwen’ and ‘Lovely Libby’ with her…kicking and screaming, if she must.
Bart Dalton would be happy riding the range forever, but his brothers need his help to start a ranch in north Texas. He figures he’ll last a year or so before his feet get itchy again, which his brothers understand. As triplets, they can almost read each others’ minds. Except when his oldest brother orders three brides for them all. It would have been nice to have a little warning about
that!
When Bart is late to meet the train carrying the Blue sisters, his brothers get first dibs, leaving Bonnie standing alone and dejected once again. It only gets worse when her ‘intended’ finally shows up and balks at the idea of marrying her. The only thing Bonnie has going for her are her wits, and she puts them to good use by proposing a business arrangement that Bart can’t refuse.
Will Bart go back to his drifter ways, or is the elusive thing he’s been searching for all his life sleeping in the next room?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cassie Hayes grew up pretending she was Laura Ingalls (before that pesky Almonzo arrived on the scene) in the middle of Oregon farm country. She lives with her husband and cat on the Pacific Ocean and loves to hear from her readers. Connect with her at:
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The characters and events portrayed in this book are a work of fiction or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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