Mail Order Bride: Lottie & Emmett’s Story (A Clean Western Cowboy Romance)
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An overweight mail order bride with three dead husbands as a track record, goes out to meet a cowboy in California, at the Yuma Arizona train station as that’s the closest to his mountain cabin in California. On the long trek via horseback to California, she learns whether or not she is truly jinxed.
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Mail Order Bride - Doreen Milstead
Mail Order Bride: A Clean Western Cowboy Romance (Lottie & Emmett’s Story)
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Doreen Milstead
Copyright 2015 Classic Western Romances Presents
Synopsis: An overweight mail order bride with three dead husbands as a track record, goes out to meet a cowboy in California, at the Yuma Arizona train station as that’s the closest to his mountain cabin in California. On the long trek via horseback to California, she learns whether or not she is truly jinxed.
Lottie shivered as she locked up the seamstress shop. A chilly spring rain had set in while she was inside. She hugged her shawl to her shoulders and clutched the brim of her hat. If only she had brought an umbrella for the walk home. The walk wasn’t far, just a few blocks down the dusty cobblestone lane, but it was long enough in this weather. She hated the cold. Summer couldn’t come fast enough.
Despite the rain, the late evening streets of Richmond were still bustling, though Lottie wouldn’t have known it from inside the shop. Business hadn’t been going so well since her husband Thomas’s death last winter. Most of Lottie’s clients had come from his connections, and after pneumonia took him, they took their business to the other, better, quicker seamstresses that littered the city.
She sighed, starting down the street. She couldn’t blame them, even if the betrayal had burned up her heart when she realized they had only been patronizing her as a favor for a friend. Lottie knew she was hardly the best; if she had a choice, she’d pick one of the others over herself too. Those other shops had plenty of girls working, many with more skill than her, and that meant they could turn over the jobs faster.
In Lottie’s little shop, she was alone and progress was slow. It could take her up to a week to even mend a simple pair of trousers when she had more than one order to work on, but she couldn’t afford to hire help. With other pockets to fill, she’d be out of business in a week instead of clinging on for another month or two.
The mounting stress of her dismal financial situation was difficult for Lottie to realize. She knew she should care more than she did, but if it were up to her, she wouldn’t be working as a seamstress anyway. Her mother had left the shop to Lottie before she died of tuberculosis, leaving her teenage daughter to tend the business. Lottie would never have even a fraction of the prowess that her mother possessed, and in the years since her death, the shop had steadily lost its patrons. Lottie suspected that the few remaining regulars she had stayed on only because they felt sorry for her.
Every customer, whether they were looking for a quick mend or a custom wedding dress, had a faint tinge of pity in their voice as they described their request to her. Lottie hated it. She hated how the people of Richmond treated her like a frail baby bird fallen too soon out of its nest. Then again, she couldn’t exactly blame them. She’d never been one to have much good luck in life.
Lottie had been alone most of her life. Yes, she’d had plenty of wonderful, loving people to help her through some portions, but ultimately she always ended up by herself. Her father was killed in the war when she was just a little girl; she hardly remembered him. She was never terribly close to her mother either, as she spent every waking moment