The Texan Merchant’s Mail Order Bride: An Age-Gap Marriage of Convenience Western Historical Romance (Pearl’s Mail Order Brides)
About
Grady loves his general store and the community he serves.
He’s built his business from the ground up and he’s proud of it. But brides are hard to come by in rural Texas and he can hardly travel to Austin or further east to find a wife. Sending off for a mail order bride seems like a gamble and the odds have never been higher. He’s waffling over the decision when one of his friend’s wives proposes an alternate solution. She was a mail order bride and now her cousin needs a husband. The woman who steps off the stagecoach is a stranger but she’s not a complete unknown with family to vouch for her.
What her cousin didn’t disclose? She’s an absolute brat.
Rose was once a bright and bubbly woman. But that was before the fire.
With her father’s death and her mother’s fall from grace she was working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory while eagerly hunting for a society husband who could keep her in the latest fashion. Then the fire happened, and she barely escaped with her life. Scarred physically and emotionally she has given up on finding a man who could ever look at her face without flinching let alone love her. Her cousin’s offer to set her up in an arranged marriage is as unexpected as it is unwelcome. But her mother is overjoyed to get her spinster daughter out of her house and out of society’s eye. Now she’s off to Texas to marry a man who works for a living. She’ll marry the man, but she will not allow him to consummate the marriage. No matter how sweet his words or how handsome his face. The second he sees her scars, he’ll turn tail like any other man.
The man she agrees to marry? A general store merchant who doesn’t care about her scars but wants more than a lukewarm marriage.
Can Grady and Rose discover a love that burns brighter than any challenge they face, or will her insecurity and lingering trauma turn their budding marriage into ash?
Full of romance and steamy scenes, every novella in the Crescent Ridge series features a different couple. HEA guaranteed with no cheating and can be read in a couple of hours.