After the loss of her husband, Caroline is battling to make sure she and her son are provided for. Her teacher’s salary is slim, and society in 1870 is unforgiving to unmarried women. Her parents arrange a marriage to a cruel merchant, but Caroline refuses to repeat her mother’s pattern of cowering to an abusive husband.
Out of options, she escapes to the home of her former in-laws’. It's there that she learns a dear friend found a new life as a mail-order bride. As frightening as the idea seems, Caroline can't help but be intrigued.
Jake Bradley’s wife, Jane, died far too soon, leaving her cowboy husband feeling like his world had ended. All that was keeping him going was the deathbed promise he made to Jane that he would find a loving mother to help him care for their young son. Unable to look at any woman he knows as a potential wife, his last resort becomes reaching out for a mail-order bride.
Can two people, whose lives have been shattered by death, find happiness together? Or will they be cursed to a life of loneliness?
Genre: Inspirational
Out of options, she escapes to the home of her former in-laws’. It's there that she learns a dear friend found a new life as a mail-order bride. As frightening as the idea seems, Caroline can't help but be intrigued.
Jake Bradley’s wife, Jane, died far too soon, leaving her cowboy husband feeling like his world had ended. All that was keeping him going was the deathbed promise he made to Jane that he would find a loving mother to help him care for their young son. Unable to look at any woman he knows as a potential wife, his last resort becomes reaching out for a mail-order bride.
Can two people, whose lives have been shattered by death, find happiness together? Or will they be cursed to a life of loneliness?
Genre: Inspirational
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