Winning The Mail-Order Bride
She was promised to another…When widow Fiona Goldberg and her two adorable sons arrive in Oak Grove, Kansas, proclaimed bachelor Brett Blackwell is instantly captivated. But when he learns she's promised to the mayor he tries his best to keep his distance…Out of desperation, Fiona has agreed to become a mail-order bride for the disagreeable, self-important mayor. But something about her neighbour Brett makes her feel safe. She knows she must fight her growing feelings for the forbidden blacksmith, even while longing for him to rescue her and take her as his bride himself!
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She was promised to another...
When widow Fiona Goldberg and her two adorable sons arrive in Oak Grove, Kansas, proclaimed bachelor Brett Blackwell is instantly captivated. But when he learns she is promised to the mayor, he tries his best to keep his distance...
Out of desperation, Fiona had agreed to become a mail-order bride to the disagreeable, self-important mayor. But something about her neighbor Brett makes her feel safe. She knows she must fight her growing feelings for the forbidden blacksmith, even while longing for him to rescue her and take her as his bride himself!
âI hope you donât mind if your boys call me Brett? I told them itâs all right, but if you insist Iâll abide by your rules.â
In no place to deny him anything, Fiona said, âI donât mind.â
âGood, Iâm glad we agree on that, Mrs. Goldberg.â
âMe too, Mr. Blackwell.â
It felt as if they were playing a game in which neither of them had said they could call each other by their given names, but both wanted to. She thought of him as Brett. Had since last night. Yet that wouldnât be right. She would soon marry someone else andâ
âOhâ¦â She stumbled slightly.
âWhat is it? You step on a rock?â
âNo.â Josiah had said heâd be back this afternoon. âI probably should have remained at the house.â
A sternness formed on his face. âThe mayor is having lunch with the new preacher. Heâll be busy for some time yet.â
âOh.â
âCome, now,â Brett said. âThereâs no frowning allowed on picnics.â
He was once again smiling and his eyes looked bluer than the sky. Mesmerized for a moment, she wasnât sure how to respond.
Welcome to Oak Grove! Itâs a small town on the prairies of western Kansas and full of people who believe itâs the best town west of the Mississippi. They are so proud of their little town they create a Betterment Committee in order to bring in a trainload of mail-order brides to marry several of the local bachelors. As you can imagine, things arenât quite as easy as they thought it would beâwhich has made writing these stories all the more fun.
I hope you enjoy Brett and Fiona, and the twists and turns their story takes before reaching their happy-ever-after.
Stay happy!
A lover of fairy tales and cowboy boots, LAURI ROBINSON canât imagine a better profession than penning happily-ever-after stories about menâand womenâwho pull on a pair of boots before riding off into the sunset...or kick them off for other reasons. Lauri and her husband raised three sons in their rural Minnesota home, and are now getting their just rewards by spoiling their grandchildren. Visit: laurirobinson.blogspot.com, facebook.com/lauri.robinson1, or twitter.com/LauriR.
Books by Lauri Robinson
Mills & Boon Historical Romance
Oak Grove
Mail-Order Brides of Oak Grove
âSurprise Bride for the Cowboyâ Winning the Mail-Order Bride
Daughters of the Roaring Twenties
The Runaway Daughter (Undone!)
The Bootleggerâs Daughter The Rebel Daughter The Forgotten Daughter
Stand-Alone Novels
The Majorâs WifeThe Wrong CowboyA Fortune for the OutlawÂs DaughterSaving Marina Western Spring Weddings âWhen a Cowboy Says I Doâ Her Cheyenne Warrior Unwrapping the Rancherâs Secret The Cowboyâs Orphan Bride
Mills & Boon Historical Undone! ebooks
Rescued by the Ranger
Snowbound with the Sheriff Never Tempt a Lawman
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Contents
The single fly that buzzed between the people sitting shoulder to shoulder in the pews in front of him annoyed folks. Not Brett Blackwell. When the fly finally landed on his shoulder, he let it be. The fly wasnât any more irritating than the sweat rolling down his neck, and the bug probably wasnât any happier than he was. Not usually prone to selfish thoughts, Brett wasnât sure what to do with the melancholy that sat inside him. It had to do with the ceremony taking place in the front of the church.
The folks up there were getting married. Heâd paid money to have a chance that one of the brides the Oak Grove Betterment Committee had brought to town would pick him, but that hadnât happened, and there wasnât a whole lot of hope inside him to say he might have another chance at getting married anytime soon. Only five brides had arrived instead of the twelve Mayor Melbourne had promised, and though the mayor claimed more would arrive soon, Brett was with the other dozen or so men who figured Josiah was just blowing hot air. The mayor liked to do that. Put Josiah Melbourne behind a podium and a personâs ears would wear out before Josiahâs voice would.
