| A Flower In The Desert Contributor(s): Milstead, Doreen (Author) |
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ISBN: 154076639X ISBN-13: 9781540766397 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.78 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hiding Out With Her Outlaw Husband & His Mother - A mail ordered bride expects to be met at the railway station by her intended but he's nowhere to be found. She eventually trudges two miles to his home, but is repulsed by both his attitude and appearance, and his gang who are exceptionally seedy. Someone rescues her and as the days pass, and she's holed up in a cabin with him and his ancient crone of a mother, things begin to heat up. Jousting In The New Mexican Desert - A woman's father sends her off via a matchmaker to a man with a castle in New Mexico. Diego takes reenactments and old Spanish artifacts to the extreme. He holds frequent jousts, with his cowboys as participants, and has decorated his castle in a medieval style. One day, a chalice is discovered in an ornate wooden box buried in the desert. Then, the miracles start to happen. Jilted In England & Sent To The Rude Rancher In South Dakota - Jilted by her beau, an English woman is sent by her aunt to become the mail order bride of a rancher in South Dakota. He ignores her and she is distraught, unhappy, and sick of traveling the long way from England to a man who apparently dislikes her; and she has no idea why. Irene Jumps From One Life To Another - A prostitute from Liverpool decides to try for a new life in America by becoming a mail order bride to a sheriff in Texas, but both the man who escorts her there and her life when she meets her future husband, are a far cry from what she thought they would be. |