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HE MAY BE HER ONLY HOPE. SHE MAY BE HIS LAST CHANCE. Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now marriage to a stranger is her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of the Chicago orphanage where they live. With any luck, she can even start a family of her own, once the three of them are settled at Jacob Creed’s Texas ranch. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: Her husband-to-be knows nothing about the brothers she’s bringing along. What if he calls off the deal when he discovers the trick she’s played on him?Jake Creed is hanging on to his Texas ranch by his fingernails. His nemesis, Alexander Blackthorne, is determined to ruin him. Jake will never give up, but he’s in desperate trouble. His wife died six months ago in childbirth, along with their stillborn son, and his two-year-old daughter needs a mother. The advertisement Jake wrote never mentioned his daughter—or the fact that he has no intention of consummating his marriage. He’s determined never to subject another wife to the burden of pregnancy. But Jake doesn’t count on finding his bride so desirable. He doesn’t count on aching with need when she joins him in bed. And he never suspected his bride would have plans of her own to seduce him.The passionate Westerns in Joan Johnston’s Bitter Creek series can be enjoyed together or separately, in any order:TEXAS BRIDE • WYOMING BRIDE • MONTANA BRIDE • SINFUL • SHAMELESS • BLACKTHORNE’S BRIDE • SULLIVAN’S PROMISE
I read the reviews before I read the book and I was on the fence about buying the book. I am so glad that I chose to go ahead with it. During the Great Chicago Fire, a wealthy banker's home burns to the ground, taking the lives of the parents. The six surviving children are put into an orphanage by their uncle, who tells them that all their father's money has been lost. The oldest girl, Miranda is turning 18 and must leave the orphanage which means that her brothers and sisters will be left to the cruelty of the despicable Miss Birch with no one to intervene. Miranda uses tickets sent by a rancher in Texas seeking a mail-order bride to spirit her two younger brothers away, hoping to send for her sisters later. This is a tale of bravery on the part of a young woman desperate to find a home for her siblings. What she finds on her arrival in Texas is not what she expected, but she bravely faces each challenge and finds courage that she didn't know that she had. The rancher, Jake Creed, is a bitter man. His "ranch" is on the verge of failing, his beloved first wife died in childbirth, leaving him with a daughter, his father-in-law is in a wheelchair, and his stepfather is out to take his land. When his mail-order bride shows up with two young boys, he is not happy. But, Miranda refuses to give up and fights for the right to stay. This is a wonderful story, with great side characters and a more realistic representation of life after the Civil War. I'm anxious to find out how the other sibling fare after Miranda left the orphanage.
