A Bride for Keeps, Melissa Jagears
A Bride for Keeps, Melissa Jagears
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A Bride for Keeps

Author: Melissa Jagears

Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/07/2014


Synopsis

A Tender Tale of Love on the Prairie Perfect for CBA Readers Although Everett Cline can hardly keep up with the demands of his homestead, he won't humiliate himself by looking for a helpmate ever again--not after being jilted by three mail-order brides. When a well-meaning neighbor goes behind his back to bring yet another mail-order bride to town, he has good reason to doubt it will work, especially after getting a glimpse at the woman in question. She's the prettiest woman he's ever seen, and it's just not possible she's there to marry a simple homesteader like him. Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiance. Having finally worked up the courage to leave her life in Massachusetts, she's determined to find a place where people will value her for more than her looks. Having run out of all other options, Julia resorts to a mail-order marriage in far-away Kansas. Everett is skeptical a cultured woman like Julia could be happy in a life on the plains, while Julia, deeply wounded by a past relationship, is skittish at the idea of marriage at all. When, despite their hesitations, they agree to a marriage in name only, neither one is prepared for the feelings that soon arise to complicate their arrangement. Can two people accustomed to keeping their distance let the barricades around their hearts down long enough to fall in love?

About Melissa Jagears

Melissa Jagears is a homeschooling mom who writes Christian historical romance into the wee hours of the night. She’s a Carol Award-winning author and has written the Unexpected Brides series, the Teaville Moral Society series, and Love by the Letter. For more information, visit www.melissajagears.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on May 25, 2016

A beautiful marriage of convenience story! Completely heart-warming and romantic! I had been meaning to read this book ever since loving the short story Love by the Letter by the same author, and was sure that it would probably not disappoint. I was so right. I was swept in from the very beginning as......more

Goodreads review by Karen on October 01, 2013

Readers who enjoy sweet prairie romance will enjoy Melissa Jagears's debut novel. She has a unique twist on the marriage of convenience story and sports characters with emotional woundedness that made me want to reach into the pages and give them a hug. The pacing was a little slow for my taste, and......more

Goodreads review by Melody on December 06, 2013

This is a difficult book for me to review because it left me with many mixed emotions. Everett Cline is a nice-looking, God-fearing homesteader who has been quite unlucky in the love department. Sending for multiple mail order brides, one at a time of course, they all chose someone else to spend thei......more

Goodreads review by Delta on May 02, 2016

3.5 stars A Bride for Keeps is a heartwarming mail-order-bride story of how God heals two battle-scarred hearts when strangers are brought together by a meddlesome neighbor who is a friend to them both.......more