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    Mail Order Bride: The Distant Widow & The Divorced Rancher
    Mail Order Bride: The Distant Widow & The Divorced Rancher
    Mail Order Bride: The Distant Widow & The Divorced Rancher
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    Mail Order Bride: The Distant Widow & The Divorced Rancher

    By Beth Overton

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    A widow with four children, whose husband was killed by the police because of shady dealings, decides to travel west and become the mail order bride of a divorced and well-off rancher. The children and the rancher get along very well and her children are happy, but she cannot warm up to the man until a crisis intervenes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeth Overton
    Release dateFeb 7, 2016
    ISBN9781310977701
    Mail Order Bride: The Distant Widow & The Divorced Rancher
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    Beth Overton

    Beth Overton lives in Northern California with her husband and three cats. Besides writing romances, she loves to read everything she can get her hands on, as well as cooking up gourmet delights for her entire family.

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      Mail Order Bride - Beth Overton

      Mail Order Bride: The Distant Widow & The Divorced Rancher

      By

      Berth Overton

      Copyright 2016 Quietly Blessed & Loved Press

      Synopsis: A widow with four children, whose husband was killed by the police because of shady dealings, decides to travel west and become the mail order bride of a divorced and well-off rancher. The children and the rancher get along very well and her children are happy, but she cannot warm up to the man until a crisis intervenes.

      Of course it would rain. It always rained on the worst possible occasions. As she looked across the cemetery at all the friends and family that had gathered to join them on this darkest of days, she couldn’t help but let the tears roll down her cheeks. It was the kind of autumn day where it reminded her that the entire world was dying with her hopes and dreams. The trees were almost empty, the sky was gray and the rain was coming down on their umbrellas with a ferocity that refused to relent, even in the wake of their sadness.

      Mary was too young to be a widow. She told herself that over and over again. They had told her that Wallace had been mixed up in some mysterious dealings. The police had raided the restaurant where he worked, and he had put up a fight. They told her he had shot at them and that they had no other option but to shoot back at him. The reality that her husband was dead shattered her world as much as the realization that everything they owned was a lie added to the fact that he was a criminal and that the state was now seizing everything they owned.

      Within the course of twenty-four hours, she and her four children were widowed and fatherless and facing the prospects of a world without money or financial hope. Essentially, they were destitute. She was going to have to think of something quickly, or she was going to lose the children.

      New York City was not a place where she could raise four children without their father. For ten years, she had raised Charles, Edwin, Lucy, and Betty while her husband went to work, bringing home enormous amounts of money that she never questioned. Why had she ever needed to question him?

      The police were as suspicious of her as they had been of him. The thought of them taking it all made her cry as much as her backstabbing, treacherous husband.

      This was all his fault.

      At age fifteen, Mary had been a young, foolish girl who had taken the wrong steps in life by falling for a charming young man named Wallace who convinced her that she was something more to him than a skirt. When she found out she was pregnant, her parents forced her out of the house and told her that she better get married and that she was on her own.

      Since that day, Mary had been the best parent that she could be to Charles and Wallace had gladly married her, offering her a life that she could only dream of. It was the life that she hadn’t expected, but she did the best with what she had. Sure, she had made her mistakes but they had recovered.

      Charles was thirteen years old, a handsome young man who was a little brooding and silent, understanding all too well that the world was a cruel and unreasonable place. His dark hair was combed back and he wore his suit

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