A Bride For The Asking -- (on hold)
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Rose McGregor flees the post-civil war south as a mail-order bride, with no other hope than to have a home of her own, a full stomach, and someone to take care of her.
She never expected to find more pain and hardship than she's already suffered as her past catches up with her future.
Least of all does she expect to find a love far beyond her wildest dreams in the arms of the stranger she has sworn to honor and obey.
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