The Trail Master's Bride
Release date: July 11th
The Blurb:
After being forced out of her home by her insensitive father
and his social climbing young bride, twenty-year-old city girl, Mina Hobart is
whisked away in a wagon by her near stranger of a husband to begin a new life on
the western frontier. Hating each minute
of every hot, dusty day, Mina has to put up with the nasty insults her new husband
throws at her for not being able to cook over a camp fire, make coffee
properly, do the laundry in a creek, or yoke a team of oxen.
When tragedy strikes the wagon train and Mina finds herself an
early widow, it is up to Weston Carr, the rugged Trail Master to tame the
feisty red head. With the help of an encouraging friend and a few over the knee
spankings, Mina finds herself learning the ways of life on the Oregon Trail.
It soon becomes clear that something is amiss, things begin disappearing,
oxen are left to roam free and other mishaps abound, the pioneers look to inept
Mara as the culprit. Vowing her
innocence, she spars with Weston determined to prove him wrong. With the evidence pointing her way, the Trail
Master doesn’t know what to think, but he will do what he must to protect her,
even if that means taking the spirited young woman as his bride.
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“For
Christ’s sake, Mina, these are heavy.”
Her eyes shot behind the man to her husband, who stood glowering at her
with impatience. “Either lend a hand or get out of the way.”
She eyed the parcels that Elliott carried, noting it was half
the load the stranger carried, then she twisted and peered down the steep dirt
path leading down to the dock.
“If you have something
smaller,” she offered. “I don’t think I
could carry even one of those.”
“Stop being a ninny,” her husband grumbled. “I was jesting. Now, quit blocking the walkway.”
She took a step back onto the frost covered grass, wetting the
bottom of her skirts as she did so.
Frowning, she watched as the men passed, Elliott huffing and puffing for
breath as he struggled with his burden unlike the stranger who wasn’t even
winded from the task. In fact, as the
stranger passed, casting a long shadow over her, Mina noticed he moved easily,
with a loose hipped stride, appearing almost graceful as he descended the steep
trail. She realized she was staring most
rudely when he stopped at the bottom, looked up at her, and winked, his blue
eyes snapping with amusement. Mina
blushed and quickly looked away, shifting her regard back to her husband.
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