A Sudden Christmas Family for the Hesitant Rancher (The Twelve Mail Order Brides of Christmas) - Softcover

Celebrate the miracle of love and the joy of the holiday season on the Western frontier with the Twelve Mail Order Brides of Christmas, a new series from popular author Emma Morgan!Widowed and with a young child, Claire Jeffries leaves her old life behind and heads west as a Mail Order Bride. She knows that her last chance to build a home for her daughter Angelica rests with Elijah Monroe, whose ad she answered in a catalog. He sounds like a kind man in his letters, but Claire worries how kind he will feel when he meets Angelica, who Claire has failed to mention in any of her own letters. Can he possibly love them both, and forgive her deception?Elijah Monroe has no particular wish to marry, but that doesn’t stop his father from placing an ad for him for a Mail Order Bride. And when Claire responds to his unintentional ad, he is drawn to her sweet words and desperate situation. But when she arrives with an unexpected child, neither is quite sure their arrangement is meant to be.With Christmas approaching and the snows soon to fall, Claire and Elijah made a pact to decide if their arrangement is meant to be. But can a relationship built on a lie ever succeed?