Mail Order Holly
by Charlotte Dearing
A Christmas Bride for the Texas Cowboy
To avoid an unwanted suitor, Holly Ross becomes a mail order bride. She travels to Copper Creek a few short weeks before Christmas. Along the way, she’s asked to take a bundle of letters to a certain cowboy in Copper Creek. They’re from another mail order bride who’s had a change of heart.
The journey seems endless. Holly peeks at the letters, reads one, and then another. She can’t resist learning more about the Barstow family.
When she arrives, there’s no one to greet her. She fears that her husband has jilted her. Stranded, alone on the train platform, she accepts help from a rugged cowboy.
None other than Jacob Barstow, the man whose letters she read.
Jacob Barstow never expects to inherit his uncle’s ranch. His dream to raise and train horses is almost in reach. But his uncle left a marriage clause. If Jacob wants the ranch he’ll need to take a wife by Christmas. And if he doesn’t marry, the family land will go to his uncle’s lawyer.
To avoid an unwanted suitor, Holly Ross becomes a mail order bride. She travels to Copper Creek a few short weeks before Christmas. Along the way, she’s asked to take a bundle of letters to a certain cowboy in Copper Creek. They’re from another mail order bride who’s had a change of heart.
The journey seems endless. Holly peeks at the letters, reads one, and then another. She can’t resist learning more about the Barstow family.
When she arrives, there’s no one to greet her. She fears that her husband has jilted her. Stranded, alone on the train platform, she accepts help from a rugged cowboy.
None other than Jacob Barstow, the man whose letters she read.
Jacob Barstow never expects to inherit his uncle’s ranch. His dream to raise and train horses is almost in reach. But his uncle left a marriage clause. If Jacob wants the ranch he’ll need to take a wife by Christmas. And if he doesn’t marry, the family land will go to his uncle’s lawyer.
