A Lonely Christmas Bride for the Solitary Miner (The Twelve Mail Order Brides of Christmas) - Softcover

Celebrate the miracle of love and the joy of the holiday season on the Western frontier with the Twelve Mail Order Brides of Christmas, a new series from popular author Emma Morgan!Left alone with her young sister after their parents’ death, Kathleen O’Conner finds herself desperate for a way to care for them both. So when Tristan Jones answers her ad in the Matrimonial News with the promise to help support her family, she knows he’s her last hope. With no other choice, she leaves her sister in the care of her aunt, and heads West to marry a strange man known only by letters.Tristan Jones is kind man, and Kathleen feels her love beginning to grow. But he works long hours in the mine, and Kathleen’s days at the isolated ranch are long and lonely. She misses her family, and the Christmas holidays only remind her how far away they are. And when she learns that Tristan’s own mother hates her at first meeting, she is even less sure she made the right choice coming West—even it if was her father’s dream.