I’ve always liked Jody Hedlund’s books although I haven’t read the previous books in this series. This is definitely a stand-alone book you don’t feel you’ve missed much when you read it. Jody Hedlund always does such a great job of researching backgrounds for books and then writing characters that are believable into those backgrounds. I love reading Bride of Convenience books, they always have such great stories to them. In this book Jody is a mill worker who emigrates to British Columbia and ends up taking in a native’s infant. There are many who want to marry her but they don’t want the native infant as part of the plan. She marries a Pastor who agrees to the marriage as one of convenience, although neither really loves the convenience part. Zoe proves to the Pastor that she is very much a woman who is becoming as a Pastors wife as she loves doing for others. She even teaches Pastor Abe a thing or two about God and serving him. I really enjoyed reading this book and heartily give it 5 stars.
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Description
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Unemployed mill worker Zoe Hart
jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a
better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being
accused of a crime.
Pastor to miners in the mountains, Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned baby during a routine visit to Victoria and joins efforts with Zoe, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women, to care for the infant. While there, he's devastated by the news from his fiancée in England that she's marrying another man.
With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, Zoe accepts a proposal from a miner of questionable character after he promises to help her locate her brother. Intent on protecting Zoe and frustrated by his failed engagement, Abe offers his own hand as groom. After a hasty wedding, they soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all.
Pastor to miners in the mountains, Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned baby during a routine visit to Victoria and joins efforts with Zoe, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women, to care for the infant. While there, he's devastated by the news from his fiancée in England that she's marrying another man.
With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, Zoe accepts a proposal from a miner of questionable character after he promises to help her locate her brother. Intent on protecting Zoe and frustrated by his failed engagement, Abe offers his own hand as groom. After a hasty wedding, they soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all.
