This Christmas, love arrives unexpectedly to Castle Rock—by stagecoach. December 1876 – Felix Spencer has inherited his family’s mercantile, but everyone knows he’s never really had much business sense. His sister is getting married and moving away but worries her brother won’t be able to run the store on his own, so she tells him that he should look for a new accountant and put an ad out. As a joke, his best friend contacts an agency for a mail order bride/accountant to come. Felix is expecting a man, but a woman shows up instead—Bethany Thomas. Bethany loves numbers and organization, but she loses her family business when her father ends up in jail for debt. Her mother pushes Bethany to get out of Richmond Society and become a mail-order bride. Does she really need to leave everything she knows behind so close to Christmastime? Can unexpected Christmas magic spark love’s flame between a man with no bride and the woman who has traveled so far to win his wary affection? This is a clean, wholesome, standalone novella written from a Christian worldview. It has a happily ever after and features down-to-earth characters with real world problems who overcome them by grace and love.
Author
P. Creeden is the sweet romance and mystery pen name for USA Today Bestselling Author Pauline Creeden. Her stories feature down-to-earth characters who often feel like they are undeserving of love for one reason or another and are surprised when love finds them. P. Creeden married her college sweetheart, who she also met at a horse farm. Together they raise a menagerie of animals and their one son, an avid reader, himself. Animals are the supporting characters of many of her stories, because they occupy her daily life on the farm, too. From dogs, cats, and goldfish to horses, chickens, and geckos—she believes life around pets is so much better, even if they are fictional.
