A Bride for Keeps

A Novel

by: Melissa Jagears

series: Unexpected Brides

• Format

  E-Book

  ISBN

  9781441263339

  Pub. Date

  Oct 2013

  SRP

  $6.99

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About

Everett Cline will never humiliate himself by seeking a mail-order bride. Not again. He's already been jilted by three mail-order brides and figures a wife just isn't in his future. However, a well-meaning neighbor hasn't given up on seeing him settled, so she goes behind his back to bring yet another woman to town for him.

Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiance. A mail-order marriage in faraway Kansas is a last resort, but she'll do anything to leave her life in Massachusetts and the heartbreak she's experienced there.

Although Everett doesn't see how a beautiful, cultured woman like Julia could be happy sharing his simple life, he could really use a helpmate on his homestead. Determined to prove she's more than just a pretty face, Julia agrees to a marriage in name only. Faced with the harsh realities of life on the prairie and hesitant to explore the tentative feelings growing between them, can Everett and Julia ever let each other in long enough to fall in love?

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Endorsements

Melissa Jagears is a stand-out talent! Her fresh new voice is strong, stylish, and makes A Bride for Keeps a page-turner for anyone who fancies a stirring love story. Vivid description and unforgettable, heart-tugging scenes between hero and heroine transform the ever-popular mail order bride storyline into something much more real and three-dimensional. In this appealing novel, Ms. Jagears demonstrates beyond doubt that the aplomb of the writer determines the quality of the story.

Rosslyn Elliott, author of Fairer Than Morning and Sweeter Than Birdsong

Melissa Jagears has penned a tender tale of a mail-order bride who takes both the groom--and herself--by surprise when love comes softly...quietly... to heal their broken hearts.

Julie Lessman, author of Love at any Cost

A Bride for Keeps treats readers to an engaging prairie romance when God's will and love collide, delivering a heart-warming, satisfying read reminiscent of the style of Kim Vogel Sawyer.

-Maggie Brendan, CBA bestselling author of The Heart of the West and The Blue Willow Brides series

"A Bride for Keeps is just beautiful. It put me in mind of Janette Oke's sweet prairie romances but with a bit more edge, which I found compelling...I loved it."

Mary Connealy, author of Fired Up

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Reviews

Beautiful, descriptive writing makes for excellent storytelling in Jagears' debut... With a well-crafted plot, Jagears deftly expresses the characters' struggle to overcome feelings of self-doubt on their journey toward God and each other.

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