An Odyssey for Christmas
By Angela Lain
2020
First Published
4.58
Average Rating
174
Number of Pages
Part of Series
A long journey to happiness. Theadosia Abbottsford fled from her job in England after an assault. She sailed to America and travelled to the frontier to a new life as a mail-order bride. But Piney Ridge, Colorado held only disappointment. Her husband-to-be had left with another woman. Widower Luke Parry had married a mail-order bride to care for his children. He never got to know his new bride of three weeks, because she ran off with another man, leaving Luke in even more of a muddle than he had been before. When Miss Abbottsford arrived to wed the man with whom his new wife had absconded, it seemed only right that she should help him out. The problem was he was now a married man. How could he offer a home to an unmarried lady?
Avg Rating
4.58
Number of Ratings
89
5 STARS
71%
4 STARS
18%
3 STARS
10%
2 STARS
1%
1 STARS
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Author
Angela Lain
Author · 3 books
My name is Angela and I live in the countryside in Norfolk, UK, with my husband (who is an engineer and always busy) and my horse. My two children have left home, but I help my daughter with her horses and her whippets. I tend both house and garden rather reluctantly and I write and read. For years I had woven stories in my head, when travelling and watching the world go by, when lying in bed trying to sleep, or just when I was transported by a place or an event. I finally started to put the stories on paper while I sat through several endless nights when my young daughter was ill. The result was several handwritten manuscripts, hard labour over a typewriter and eventually a single romance novel accepted and published back in 1990. Then I gave up, too much family life and a business to run. Finally both children have left home and I am less busy, and now the revolution has happened. Computers. The internet. Self-publishing. I felt able to inflict my creations on the world once again. I write both historical and contemporary romance, although I personally prefer the historical; I enjoy the research. The stories are not erotica, but they are (as one of my lovely reviewers said) a little bit naughty. I don’t leave at the bedroom door. My stories are plot driven, they might get it on, but sex is part of the characters’ lives, not the main purpose. I like a bit of adventure, excitement and danger. My characters have been involved on the Oregon trail, in Indian raids in the west, and in the Crimean war. They have been variously stranded in snow storms, caught in tornadoes and kidnapped by ruffians (one of the young ladies, that is, the heroes are too tough). One thing they always get is their happy ending. I don’t like a book without a happy ending, so I really cannot write one.
