The Natoma Bride

A Christian Western Novel

By Ken Pratt

2022

First Published

4.69

Average Rating

369

Number of Pages

11H12M

Audio Length

A love story based on lies and an outlaw gang of murderers and thieves… It’s 1884, and Audrey Butler is a twenty-nine-year-old mail order bride who has accepted a marriage proposal to a man named Alan Sperry in Natoma, Oregon. Deciding to leave home, she embarks on a journey she’s sure will change her life forever. But upon her arrival, Audrey is welcomed into a home unlike the one she expected. And the nice Christian man she thought she was writing to…is a work of fiction. Meanwhile, Matt Bannister finds trouble in Prairieville, Oregon as a member of the Dielschneider family dedicates himself to taking Bannister’s fifteen-year-old niece as his wife and—on his quest to find her—crosses ethical lines and becomes the most wanted man in town. Join US Marshal Matt Bannister as he attempts to juggle a mail order bride’s reigning cry for help, a family reunion, and one man’s haunting presence.

Avg Rating

4.69

Number of Ratings

289

5 STARS

78%

4 STARS

16%

3 STARS

2 STARS

1 STARS

goodreads

Author

Ken Pratt

Author · 16 books

Ken Pratt worked to make a living, but his passion has always been writing. Having a busy family, the only "free" time he had to write was late at night getting no more than five hours of sleep a night. He has penned several novels that are being published along with several children stories as well. Ken Pratt says, "If you want something bad enough, you'll sacrifice something else to get it. I sacrifice sleep. I do not write to be a best seller or for wealth, I write to bring hope into the lives of the hopeless and encourage the disheartened through the lives of the characters and God's providence in my stories. There is always 'Hope' and that is the purpose of my books."