A Bride for the Cattleman: Clean Mail Order Western Romance (Brides of Cedar Bend Book 4)

Sadie Quinn has forty-seven dollars and fifty cents to her name, which is what ten years over a treadle comes to after the ticket and the trunk. She is spending all of it on a man she knows only by letter. Wes Calder runs cattle on a claim at the north end of Cedar Bend. His letters are honest about the work, the water, the winters and what he cannot promise her, and she has read them enough times to know the hand. What the letters never mention is a clock. There is a date running against that claim, there is a man in town who would like it to run out, and a wife living on the land is the strongest proof of good faith the land office recognises. Sadie works that out for herself in the first week, and it lands the way it was always going to land: she came two thousand miles to be married, and she has arrived as a signature. Wes is not a swindler. He is a man who was so afraid of being accused of marrying for a form that he said nothing at all, and so made the accusation true. Neither of them is any good at saying a thing while it is still small. A clean, closed-door mail-order bride western about a homestead claim under contest, a deadline that never made it into the letters, and a seamstress who has to decide what her own word is worth. Faith, grit and a hard-won happy ending. Book 4 of Brides of Cedar Bend. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.