Mail Order Mirage

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.

Ethel Brown is bored with her life as a socialite in Beckham, Massachusetts. Every week is exactly the same under her mother's watchful eye. Every weekday she works as a volunteer at the local orphanage. Every Saturday she goes to parties to meet the man she will marry. The problem is she would never marry one of the men at those parties.

Walt Prewitt is a rancher in Montana, who feels like there's only one thing missing in his life: a wife. When he spots an advertisement for mail-order brides, he knows it's the perfect solution, and he immediately sends a letter to the matchmaker in Beckham.

Shortly after, his new wife arrives, everything he'd dreamed she would be and more. Ethel is unsure of Walt, though, because his moods seem mercurial. Quickly she discovers the secret to his good moods and knows she will live out her life with this man and be happy.

When Walt discovers the jewelry she brought from Beckham, he fears she will sell the jewelry and leave him for a richer man. Will they be able to work out their differences?