Nellie Wallace is a young widow with two children. In post civil-war New York, the men are scarce and none want the burden of a wife with children. Her dead husband’s family is wealthy, and cruel. Desperate to escape their influence, and eager for a home, a husband, and a stable life for her children, Nellie decides to make a new life in San Francisco as a mail order bride.
Saloon owner Blake … owner Blake Malone is a bachelor and likes it that way. He worked hard for everything he has, but the San Francisco City Council won’t approve his plans to build a family emporium unless he is a family man himself. The solution? A mail order bride from New York who will bring him a ready-made family, stability, and the council’s approval.
Blake expects his future wife to care for his home and, other than helping him impress the city council, to stay out of his business. He expects life as usual. What he gets is an unexpected desire to win Nellie’s heart, a dangerous threat to his new bride, and a rich benefactor determined to steal his new family out from under him. Blake believed his battle for success a hard one. But he will discover that the battle to win Nellie’s heart and keep his family safe is going to take everything he’s got.
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Interesting, A bit of mystery here and there. Nice calm reading.
A lovely romance without too much smut.
My selected “likes” are my opinion.
A fun read… a look back in time, family dynamics, and interesting characters!
Great book – easy to read and showed you how live was here in the US at that time. A book for almost everyone.
I already wrote a review of this, but here’s another. The story was a little unrealistic but was really entertaining as a story. Nellie was quite the heroine and maybe more like the people of that era than I realize. Her husband was too good to be true but most romance novel heroes are.
Story line was good. More information than necessary during the bedroom scenes.
This was a great read!
this is a good story, this as some steam y scenes
Just an okay read.