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Prairie Bride

"Debut author Julianne MacLean has penned a warm, emotional tale about a mail order bride with a dark secret and the gruff, rugged pairie farmer who becomes her husband in name and eventually in heart. The frontier struggles of the hero and heroine are portrayed in breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking, detail. Prairie Bride is a story of secrets, old wounds and the healing power of love. An engaging page-turner, warm as prairie sunshine!"
-Deborah Hale, Author of My Lord Protector
The Prairie Was Hard On A Woman

You had to be tough to survive here, and Briggs expected any wife of his to be as stalwart as he. The first woman he had trusted to do the job had failed. So what had made him think a stranger, especially a beautiful one, could ever help him salvage his dreams?
 
Sarah MacFarland's mail-order-bride marriage to Mr. Brigman was heaven-sent. She only hoped that the silent rancher was as honest as he appeared, for Sarah's unspoken past already held enough lies and scandal to last her a lifetime.

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Chapter One

 
 

Kansas, 1882
    Exhausted, knowing she would not sleep for many hours, Sarah MacFarland leaned forward to peer from the train window. The shrill steam whistle blew. Heavy iron wheels chugged and squealed beneath the soles of her feet, faster and faster, mimicking the rhythm of her heart.
     Tonight she would lose her virginity. For the second time.
     Sarah sank back in her seat and massaged her pounding temples. She prayed silently that it would all go well, that she had done the right thing, coming out west. Searching for reassurance, she pulled open the drawstring on her black purse and withdrew the newspaper advertisement.
    Farmer, Arthur Brigman, seeks gentle and peaceful wife for simple life on Kansas prairie. Must agree to daily toil and plain home.
     Marriage and a simple life was what she'd always wanted, she reminded herself as she watched two children chase each other up the aisle, screeching with laughter. A troublesome guilt slithered up Sarah's spine. Never in all her dreams had she believed she would reach her goal of marriage through deceit. But she had no choice, really...


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