Carrying her rescuerâs baby!
Annabel Fairfax fled West in disguise to find her sisters. But on her way a threat catches up with herâand sheâs forced to turn to a ruggedly handsome stranger on horseback!
Clay Collier, her reluctant protector, tries to keep his distance from the beautiful runawayâbut neither can resist one stolen night! Honor demands he marry her, but discovering Annabelâs affluent background convinces Clay she doesnât belong in his dangerous world. Except his forbidden bride is already secretly pregnant...
The Fairfax Brides
Three sisters find rugged husbands
in the wild Wild West
Beautiful heiresses Charlotte, Miranda and Annabel Fairfax have only ever known a life of luxury in Boston. Now, orphaned and in danger, they are forced to flee, penniless and alone, into the lawless West. There they discover that people will risk all for gold and landâbut when the sisters make three very different marriages to three enigmatic men they will find the most precious treasure of all!
Read Charlotte and Thomasâs story in
His Mail-Order Bride
Miranda and Jamesâs story in
The Bride Lottery
Annabel and Clayâs story in
From Runaway to Pregnant Bride
All available now!
Author Note
From Runaway to Pregnant Bride completes The Fairfax Brides trilogy.
His Mail-Order Bride tells the story of the oldest sister, Charlotte, who finds happiness with Thomas Greenwood, a strong, steady farmer. The Bride Lottery is about the middle sister, Miranda, who ends up married to Jamie Blackburn, a part Cheyenne bounty hunter.
From Runaway to Pregnant Bride is the story of Annabel, the youngest sister, who longs to prove her independence. Disguised as a boy, she sets out to join her sisters in the West, but robbery and bad luck see her stranded in a New Mexico mining camp.
Clay Collier, orphaned son of tricksters and thieves, grew up with poverty and neglect, and now scratches out a living from the earth. Not fooled by Annabelâs disguise, he gives in to the attraction between them, but his fear for her safety and welfare drives them apart.
When writing this book I worried about repeating myself, because there are so many parallels in the stories of the three sistersâthey all flee from their Boston home to the West and end up penniless, in forced proximity with an attractive though reticent man. I worked hard to make each character and relationship different, and I hope youâll enjoy Annabelâs story.
In the final chapters the sisters face their enemy, Cousin Gareth, and learn that everything is not always as it seems. Perhaps one day Iâll get to write the story of Gareth Fairfax, and give him the love and happiness he deserves.
Before becoming a novelist TATIANA MARCH tried out various occupationsâincluding being a chambermaid and an accountant. Now she loves writing Western historical romance. In the course of her research Tatiana has been detained by the US border guards, had a skirmish with the Mexican army, and stumbled upon a rattlesnake. This has not diminished her determination to create authentic settings for her stories.
Books by Tatiana March
Mills & Boon Historical Romance
The Fairfax Brides
His Mail-Order Bride
The Bride Lottery From Runaway to Pregnant Bride
Mills & Boon Historical Undone! eBooks
The Virginâs Debt
Submit to the Warrior Surrender to the Knight The Drifterâs Bride
Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk.
Chapter One
Boston, Massachusetts, August 1889
Annabel Fairfax tore open the envelope the post office messenger had delivered and peeked at the document inside. A money order! A money order for two hundred dollars! Glancing around the shadowed hallway to make sure the servants were not spying on her, Annabel slipped the envelope into her skirt pocket and hurried upstairs to her bedroom.
Two hundred dollars meant freedom.
Four years ago, after their parents died in a boating accident and their greedy Cousin Gareth came to live with them, the three Fairfax sisters had become prisoners in their own homeâMerlinâs Leap, a gray stone mansion perched on a rocky headland just north of Boston.
Charlotte, the eldest, was the heiress, and Cousin Gareth had attempted to force her into marriage. Three months ago, Charlotte had escaped and was now living under an assumed name in Gold Crossing, Arizona Territory.
With Charlotte out of his clutches, Gareth had contrived to have her declared dead and Miranda, the middle sister, had been named as the heiress. Rather than fight Garethâs advances, Miranda also had chosen to flee from Merlinâs Leap, and was now on her way to join Charlotte in the Arizona Territory.