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    Mail Order Bride -The Journey: Part Two (Western Mail Order Brides: Book Two)
    Mail Order Bride -The Journey: Part Two (Western Mail Order Brides: Book Two)
    Mail Order Bride -The Journey: Part Two (Western Mail Order Brides: Book Two)
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    Mail Order Bride -The Journey: Part Two (Western Mail Order Brides: Book Two)

    By Leah Wyett

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    In 1864, the Civil War raged on, leaving in its wake hundreds of thousands of young men dead and similar numbers of young women widows or spinsters without a hope of finding a husband. At the same time the young men who had gone out west to make their fortunes in the gold mines were beginning to long for real towns and cozy homes. A few enterprising men decided that there was money to be made in uniting the two.
    The Journey: Part 2 is about one such man named Marshall, who set out on a quest to find young women with enough of an adventurous spirit to travel thousands of miles, promising to marry a man they had only met through pictures and letters.
    On one of his trips back east, two young women Eliza and Maggie Barry are urged by their mother to sign up. Eliza wants no part of it, but her sister Maggie a child in a woman’s body is intent on going. Eliza’s love and devotion to her sister are stronger than her desire to stay in New York, so she signs up to go along as well.
    Eliza’s reservations only grow stronger when they reach their destination and meet the men they are to marry. Eliza’s man seems to be hiding secrets from his past, and Maggie’s is much older than her and not at all what Eliza would have picked for her beautiful sister.
    Eliza soon captures the attentions of a man named Matt Weston. He’s the Assistant Chief of Police in San Francisco and even though Eliza is intrigued by him, she tries to fight her attraction and work through her issues with her husband to be. Matt Weston has other ideas.
    Follow Eliza and Maggie as they embark with their friends on an exhausting and somewhat harrowing trip from New York to San Francisco and then journey through marriages that were destined to happen and contracts destined to be broken. As friendships are forged and some are forgotten, earthquakes roll through the land and a child is born, Eliza and Maggie begin to adjust and find that they’ve finally made their way home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGold Crown
    Release dateMay 5, 2016
    ISBN9781311899781
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      Mail Order Bride -The Journey - Leah Wyett

      LEAH WYETT

      Mail Order Bride

      The Journey - Part 2

      Western Mail Order Brides: Book Two

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2014 by Leah Wyett

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced in any format, by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior consent from the copyright owner and publisher of this book.

      This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously.

      First Printing, 2014

      Dedication

      To YOU, The reader.

      Thank you for your support.

      Thank you for your emails.

      Thank you for your reviews.

      Thank you for reading and joining me on this road.

      Contents

      Copyright

      2.1. Chapter One

      2.2. Chapter Two

      2.3. Chapter Three

      2.4. Chapter Four

      2.5. Chapter Five

      2.6. Chapter Six

      2.7. Chapter Seven

      2.8. Chapter Eight

      2.9. Chapter Nine

      2.10. Chapter Ten

      2.11. Chapter Eleven

      2.12. Chapter Twelve

      2.13. Chapter Thirteen

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      Chapter One

      Eliza, do you think I’m going to make a good mother? Maggie sat in the rocking chair staring dreamily out across the ranch where she and Charles had built their new home. She was absently rubbing her hand across her swollen belly.

      Eliza looked at her sister and smiled. Almost nothing made her as happy as seeing Maggie so happy. They had built a lovely home with two bedrooms and indoor plumbing. Maggie had a cozy little kitchen that she loved to bake in and she every time Eliza came by, she would send her home with cakes or pies. Charles had a big open barn out back where he now saw his furry patients, and since his space had grown, so had his business. They had been married for almost a year. Seeing how happy her sister still was allowed Eliza to relax and completely accept the union.

      I think you’ll make the best mother ever, she told her sister honestly. Maggie had more love to give than anyone Eliza had ever known and she knew that was the most important thing when it came to raising a child.

      Do you think the child will be a little bit disappointed when they figure out that I’m not very smart? Maggie asked her.

      Maggie! Don’t say things like that about yourself. You are very smart. You just see things differently than the rest of us, and that’s a good thing, really.

      Maggie smiled at her sister. Thank you, Eliza. she said. She knew that her sister would never admit what Maggie knew; she wasn’t as bright as most other people her age. She changed the subject then asking Eliza, How are you and the Sheriff doing?

      It was Eliza’s turn for a dreamy smile. She had fallen head over heels in love with the assistant chief of police. She had yet to admit it to him, or anyone else for that matter. She wasn’t sure what it was that made her so hesitant to admit that she was in love. Maybe it was the fear of making it real. If you made it real, and tangible, then it could possibly slip through your fingers.

      We’re doing fine, she said, trying to sound nonchalant about it.

      Maggie grinned. She knew her sister better than anyone else did and she could see the love in her eyes when she talked about Matt. He had been courting her for almost a year now. Eliza was still living with Mrs. Fields and she had taken a job with the baker in town since she’d had so much experience as a child working with her mother. She saved all of the money she could, with dreams of opening a bakery of her own someday that she and Maggie could run together. Eliza suspected that Matt was about ready to propose and love or not, she wasn’t certain what she would say.

      Fine, Maggie said with a snort. Why can’t you ever use more descriptive words, sister? she asked her.

      Eliza smiled. What would you prefer, Maggs? You want me to say we’re ‘over the moon’ for each other? Or I’ve met the man who owns my soul?

      Now you’re just being snippy, Maggie told her.

      Eliza laughed. I’m not ‘being snippy’ dear. I wish I were more like you. I really do. Descriptive, flowery words just don’t come easily to me.

      Well, I think that you and he make a lovely couple. By the way, did I tell you I ran into Garrett a few days ago at the General Store?

      The mention of Garrett made Eliza’s chest ache just a bit. She had never fallen in love with him, but she thought he was a decent man in his heart and she regretted hurting him.

      Oh, she said. How was he?

      He looked well, Maggie said. He asked after you, and I told him you were fine. Maggie grinned. She was proud of herself for her little joke. He told me there’s a stagecoach coming in from Texas this week. Mr. Marshall has arranged for more prospective brides to be brought in.

      Yes, Matt told me about that. He’s supposed to be there to make sure no more misrepresentations happen. I guess the last batch a few months ago had a lot of complaints and a lot of court time was tied up issuing fines. Only about five of the twelve that came in on that one are going through with the wedding. The town council is hoping to nip the lawsuits early by just having the girls get back on the coach and head back if that seems to be the case.

      I would hope that even if someone wasn’t what exactly what someone expected they would still give each other a chance, Maggie said in that positive, hopeful way she had about her.

      Eliza smiled and said, Me, too, Maggs.

      Eliza, have you heard from Lily?

      Eliza’s mood suddenly went dark. No. I hope I don’t either.

      Eliza, you know that hanging on to anger doesn’t hurt the one you’re angry with. It only hurts you. It will eat you up from the inside out if you let it.

      Maggie, you’re the one that should be angry with her, but you’re too kind and forgiving. That’s exactly why people like her try to take advantage of you.

      She’s a sad, lonely girl, Eliza. It would be very un-Christian of us to hold a grudge, knowing that she’s miserable in her own right.

      Maggie, dear, Lily was miserable in New York. She has been miserable almost since she got to San Francisco. She will be miserable any place in between until she gets what she wants, and she won’t stop, even if it means trying to take another woman’s husband to get it.

      She’s working in a dance hall. Maggie told her sister.

      How do you know that? Eliza asked her. Has Charles seen her?

      No, of course not. Maggie said. I thought we settled between us that Charles was without fault in that whole business. Sarah ran into Lily down by the shore. She told her that she was on the streets and hungry and the dance hall was the only place she could find work.

      Lily had married Silas the same day that Maggie had married Charles. She had sworn to love, honor and cherish him and she had listened to Charles do the same with Maggie. She had moved into his tiny little house and had proceeded to spend what little savings the poor boy had worked for as a bank clerk and struggled to save so that he and his wife and hopefully children would have a better life than he had.

      She spent it on frivolous things like curtains she ordered out of a catalog from New York or dresses that were custom made. She refused to work, saying that in his letters, Silas had promised to take care of her. Silas tried not to deny her anything, but it seemed that the more he gave her, the more she wanted.

      One night while they were all out to a play, Lily had kissed Charles. She had told him that she thought about him all the time and would be willing to meet with him in secret. Charles said he had chastised her about it that first time, but he hadn’t told Silas or Maggie because he was worried about embarrassing Lily.

      The next time she approached him, it was at Maggie’s home while she was out. Lily had seen Eliza and Maggie arrive at Mrs. Fields’ for tea. Then she had made herself cry and she had gone over and tried to get Charles to believe that Silas beat her. Charles said he put his arm around her to comfort her and she had kissed him again. Charles was confused and asked her exactly what it was that she wanted from him.

      Lily had told him, I want to live like this, as she

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