The Mail Order Bride's Secret
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Broday’s Outlaw Mail Order Brides brings the grit and high emotion of the best western novels: outlaws and robber brides, love and betrayal, strong men and passionate women…all fighting for life and freedom in the old Wild West.
When three young children show up on outlaw Tait Trinity’s doorstep, he knows he can’t help them—a wanted man has no business raising kids. And yet he can’t bring himself to turn them away. At a loss, he sends for the mail order bride he’d been writing to, hoping the demure dressmaker will be the answer to his prayers.
Melanie Dunbar is nothing like the woman Tait was expecting. She’s rough and tumble…and hiding an ulterior motive. Dangerous men have taken her sister hostage, and if Melanie wants to see her alive, she’ll have to betray her new husband. There’s only one problem—the more time she spends with Tait, the more she comes to care for him. Yet as the noose begins to tighten, Melanie will have to make a terrible choice: save her sister…or the man she loves.
A sweeping historical western romance for when the West was wild and man’s law favored the few…an extraordinary mail order bride finds her way into the heart of an outlaw.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Love blooms between a desperate woman and an honorable outlaw in the electrifying third romance in Broday's Outlaw Mail Order Bride series (after Saving the Mail Order Bride). Melanie Dunbar, the daughter of a gambler who has skipped town and left her to face his criminal charges, begrudgingly cuts a deal with crooked Judge Ira McIlroy in order to save herself from a harsh sentence: Melanie will answer outlaw Tait Trinity's ad for a bride and go undercover to sniff out proof that Tait robbed a train. When Melanie arrives in Hope's Crossing, she discovers her husband-to-be has taken in his twin adolescent nephews and toddler niece following his sister's murder. The demanding children keep them busy as Melanie warms to the charming Tait while secretly attempting to unearth evidence of his criminality. Real affection grows between the two earnest characters, leading Melanie to finally admit her scheme to Tait. As they heal their broken trust, Melanie's father rolls into Hope's Crossing, leading to a climactic heart-stopping action sequence. This is another page-turning period romance from Broday.
