By Caroline Clemmons
When
I decided to take advantage of Amazon’s amazing offer to furnish narration for
my books, my first thought was The Bride
Brigade Series, a historical western romance series about seven women who go west with wealthy young widow, Lydia
Harrison. Lydia is determined the town will not lose all the young men due to
lack of marriageable women. With her friend, Sophie Gaston, she travels to Virginia
to interview women who answer her newspaper advertisement. Those she selects
accompany here to the North Central Texas town of Tarnation, with the promise of
introductions to eligible single men seeking wives. Each of the seven women has
a different background and a different reason for risking everything on a
chance to find happiness. The town’s residents dub the seven beauties The Bride Brigade.
Join them on their journey in audio, e-book, or print. They’re also enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. If you haven't read them, please do so. If you've read them, why not take advantage of the audio book and let the narrator read to you?
Here
are the seven Bride Brigade hopefuls
in chronological order:
JOSEPHINE
Josephine
Nailor is desperate to escape a terrible arrangement between her sheriff father
and the town’s mayor. When the opportunity arises via a newspaper ad, she and
her best friend slip away and head for Richmond. She can’t relax until she’s
far away from her tiny hometown. Jose4phine isn’t certain she even wants to
marry, but she seizes the escape Lydia provided.
Michael
Buchanan is fairly content running his mercantile and being mayor of Tarnation.
The town is dusty and tiny, but it’s growing. He believes it holds all he needs
to be happy—except a wife. There are no
available women in town, but he hopes Lydia Harrison’s Bride Brigade will offer
a woman he can wed. He is immediately attracted to Josephine. But Josephine has
every reason to mistrust men in general and politicians in particular. Will her
misgivings ruin her chance at happiness?
https://www.amazon.com/Josephine-Bride-Brigade-Book-1-ebook/dp/B015M4FJUY/
ANGELINE
Angeline
Chandler didn’t invite th attack that created her condition, but she suffered the
results. Disowned byher family and left alone and destitute, she gets a second
chance when a kind woman rescues her and invites her to travel to Tarnation,
Texas with six other young women for the purpose of marriage. The prospect of
marrying one man while carrying another’s child worries Ange4line. When would
ant her with another man’s bavby?
Grady
MyIntyre is a minister whose wife deied soon after their son w3as born. The
woman who has be3en helping with histoddler has told him she is too oldto
continue. When Angeline’s name is suggested as a part-time nanny, he seizes the
chance to hire her. Their attraction is instantaneous but Angeline resists. A
ministr needs a virtuous woman noy a fallen one. Soon thy marry and both ar3
happy.
Trouble
rears its ugly head until mattersw come to a crisis. Will detractrors destroy
the happiness Angl\eline aned Grady hav3 ound?
https://www.amazon.com/Angeline-Bride-Brigade-Book-2-ebook/dp/B01CEK3W0S/
CASSANDRA
Cassandra Bradford has the cast off
wardrobe to pose as a lady. Her goal is to marry a wealthy man who can provide
her young brother with a sound future. Drat the luck! The first man she sees in
Tarnation is a dusty cowboy who sends her heart pounding. Not for her. She has
a better life in mind.
Samuel Drummond is one of the wealthiest ranchers in that part of the state,
but he wants that kept quiet. His first wife married him for his money then
left when she became bored with ranch life. He won’t let that happen if he
remarries. He intends to find a woman who wants him no matter how poor she
thinks he is.
When both Cassandra and Sam learn omissions the other has made, there are
fireworks between them. They must work through their anger and hurt to achieve
happiness.
https://www.amazon.com/Cassandra-Bride-Brigade-Book-3-ebook/dp/B01FICL10M
OPHELIA
Ophelia Shipp wants
safety, a home, a husband, and to raise a family. First, she must escape a
fanatical father who often beats her mercilessly in the name of religion. After
her best friend’s help reaching Lydia Harrison, she travels halfway across the
country to a tiny Texas town. What awaits her there must be better than what
she left. She longs for a respectable man who will be a gentle and a kind
husband.
Elias Kendrick had a
difficult childhood but he has overcome poverty to build his empire in
Tarnation. Now that he owns a successful saloon and the opera house, he is
ready to marry and start a family. He’s vowed his children’s life will be
different from his—if only he can find the right woman. Two opposites
attract—or are they? Ophelia and Elias must learn to overlook their superficial
differences to work out their chance at lasting love.
https://www.amazon.com/Ophelia-Bride-Brigade-Book-4-ebook/dp/B01HDIKQ3W/
RACHEL
Rachel
Ross’ shameful past holds a secret that haunts her. She joins other women
leaving Virginia for Texas, object matrimony. Vowing never to trust again, she
is determined to rebuild her life. She likes the dusty little town of Tarnation
and is attracted to Zane Evans. Her past has made her cautious, but she allows
him to court her.
Zane
Evans is a former Pinkerton agent who wants to forget all he saw in that
profession and in the war to establish a good life in Tarnation, Texas. He has
carefully planned his future. When he meets Rachel, he is instantly attracted. One
event reveals her past in a spectacular way. Will Zane forgive her silence?
https://www.amazon.com/Rachel-Bride-Brigade-Book-5-ebook/dp/B01LZP40HG/
LORRAINE
How
to escape marriage to an odious man?.Leave the state. Lorraine Stuart joins a
group of women traveling to a town with numerous bachelors but no unmarried young
women. She longs to meet a man who will admire her and the writing ability that
has her stories in several publications, by a pseudonym, of course. Just her
luck, out of all those in Tarnation, she falls for the most stubbon man she’s
ever met. But the handsome newspaper owner is the only one who makes her heart
flutter.
Grant
Pettigrew has worked hard to establish the Tarnation
Gazette. He is intrigued by Lorraine, but he won’t let a woman write for his newspaper. Besides, he can’t afford
to hire anyone yet. The redhead is gorgeous and ignites dreams of family, but
he’s never met a more obstinate woman. Will two immovable forces join to form a
forever love?
https://www.amazon.com/Lorraine-Bride-Brigade-Book-6-ebook/dp/B0725WQ6XG/
PRUDENCE
Prudence
Lynch’s beloved grandmother trained her in midwifery and in folk medicine.
Always ostracized because they were different—until someone needed their
help—they lived in poverty at the edge of a tiny Virginia village where rumors
plagued them. After Granny’s death, Prudence leaves for Richmond. There,
Prudence is fortunate to be chosen to accompany Lydia Harrison to Tarnation,
Texas. She believes she’s left trouble and gossip behind to establish her
healing business and begin a new life.
Doctor
Riley Gaston wants a wife and children. He’s threatened to move from Tarnation
to seek a wife, but he would never actually leave the community he loves. One
of the young women Lydia brings home mesmerizes Riley. That is, until he learns
her so-called profession is folk healing, which he views as dangerous as it is
worthless. Prudence is as stubborn as Riley. Trouble causes them to reconsider
their opinions. But is their change of heart too late?
https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Bride-Brigade-Book-7-ebook/dp/B0753TDYRM/
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