His Mail-Order Bride
A Wild West wedding!Thomas Greenwood expected his mail-order bride to be plain and pregnant—not a willow-slim beauty! She’s clearly no practical farmer’s wife, but she’s his chance finally to have a loving family…Runaway heiress Charlotte Fairfax fled the possibility of a forced marriage, yet now, assuming a stolen identity, she’s wed to a stranger the moment she steps off the train! She plans only to stay until it’s safe to leave. Except marriage to kind-hearted Thomas is far more complicated—and pleasurable—than she ever imagined!
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A Wild West wedding!
Thomas Greenwood expected his mail-order bride to be plain and pregnantânot a willow-slim beauty! Sheâs clearly no practical farmerâs wife, but sheâs his chance finally to have a loving family...
Runaway heiress Charlotte Fairfax fled the possibility of a forced marriage, yet now, assuming a stolen identity, sheâs wed to a stranger the moment she steps off the train! She plans to stay only until itâs safe to leave. Except marriage to kindhearted Thomas is far more complicatedâand pleasurableâthan she ever imagined!
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 Available now
Look out for
Miranda and Jamesâs story and Annabel and Clayâs story coming soon!
Iâve always loved Westerns, and when I started writing historical romance Western settings were the natural choice. The idea behind His Mail-Order Bride is simple: a young woman on the run assumes another womanâs identityâan action that lands her in trouble and leads to difficult moral choices.
Charlotte Fairfax is a complex heroine. Born to wealth but then deprived of every security she is accustomed to, she needs to evolve from a naïve, innocent heiress into a resourceful young woman who is able to support herself in the frontier region.
In contrast with Charlotte, Thomas Greenwood is a straightforward hero. He has had a tough life, filled with rejection and hard work. All he wants is a woman of his own. A wife. A companion. Someone to love. Someone to help with the chores.
When the dainty, whimsical Charlotte turns up instead of the sturdy mail-order bride Thomas has been expecting his life turns into chaosâin more ways than one.
In the opening scene of His Mail-Order Bride youâll meet Charlotteâs sisters: the feisty, daring Miranda and the clever but highly strung Annabel. They deserved their own stories, which have became a trilogyâThe Fairfax Brides. And at the end of Annabelâs story comes a solution to the family feud that has forced the girls to flee to the West.
I hope you enjoy His Mail-Order Bride and will want to go on to read Miranda and Annabelâs stories.
Before becoming a novelist TATIANA MARCH tried out various occupations, including being 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
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.
For my sister,
who likes sea shanties.
Contents
Boston, Massachusetts, May 1889
Charlotte Fairfax stood on the balcony at Merlinâs Leap, her hands clasped around the stone balustrade. Down in the restless ocean, waves crashed against the cliffs with an endless roar. Spray flew up in white columns. A chilly mist hung in the air. In the distance, the lighthouse at Merlinâs Point, not yet lit up for the night, silhouetted against the dark bank of clouds.
Morbid thoughts filled Charlotteâs mind. A hundred years ago her ancestor, Merlin Fairfax, had leaped to his death from this very spot. Had he been pushed, as his widow claimed? Had his younger brother murdered him? Rumors persisted even today, suggesting that he had.
Did cruel nature pass down through generations?
Was one branch of the Fairfax family tainted with evil?
How far might Cousin Gareth go to get his hands on her inheritance?
A tap on her shoulder made Charlotte jolt and cry out in alarm. She whirled around, fear throbbing through every muscle. Her shoulders sagged with relief when she saw her sister Miranda.
âYou scared me.â Her words came on a nervous sigh. âI didnât hear you open the door.â
âCome inside,â Miranda said. âWe need to talk.â
Charlotte followed her sister into the upstairs parlor that overlooked the ocean. Through the wide bay window, she could see a flock of seagulls dipping and wheeling over the foaming whitecaps, could hear the muffled sounds of their screeching.
