A Bride for the Preacher's Children: Clean Mail Order Western Romance (Brides of Cedar Bend Book 5)

The letters told Hannah Roth the truth about all three children - their names, their ages and exactly what each of them was like. What the letters never mention is who had written them. She is the eldest of nine from Pennsylvania, and she has never in her life been in a room she could sit down in alone. She applied for this with her eyes open: a widower, three children, a parsonage at the far end of a territory, and work she already knows how to do. Caleb Voss lost his wife, and with her the two things he had always been able to do. He cannot get a word down on paper any more, and he can barely stand up in front of a congregation. The church board at Cedar Bend does not know that yet. So the letters are honest - every word of them true, and not one word of them his. They came from a twelve-year-old boy named Micah and his nine-year-old sister, who wanted their father to have somebody, and who wrote to an advertisement he had never dared to place. Hannah arrives to a house that has been running on children's courage for three years. What she has to work out is whether a family assembled by its own children can be a marriage - and whether a man who cannot yet put his name to a thing on paper can still mean it. A clean, closed-door mail-order bride western about grief, three children who took matters into their own hands, and a marriage that has to be chosen twice. Faith, family and a hard-won happy ending. The final book of the series. Book 5 of Brides of Cedar Bend. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.