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The "orphan train" seemed like small-town spinster Adelaide Crum's last chance to know the simple joys of family life. So many lost children, every one of them dreaming only of a caring home -- the home she longed to offer. And yet the narrow-minded town elders refused to entrust even the most desperate child to a woman alone... . Newspaperman Charles Graves believed his heart was closed forever, but he swore to stand by this lovely, lonely woman...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Fleeing an arranged marriage, debutante Elizabeth Manning exchanges places with a mail-order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. Life on the frontier can't be worse than forced wedlock to pay her father's gambling debts. But Ted Logan's rustic lifestyle and rambunctious children prove more challenging than Elizabeth expects. She doesn't know how to be a mother or a wife. She doesn't even know how to tell Ted the truth about her past as her feelings...