The Reluctant Bride

Brides Along the Chisholm Trail, Book 1

By: Maxine Douglas

Narrated by: Evelyn Grace

Roseanne Duncan witnesses her employer push his sickly wife down the staircase. Fearing she’ll have to testify against a prominent man in town, she’s given an ad for a mail-order bride in Dodge City. Believing this is a way for her to escape the possible danger of her employer, she travels to Dodge City and marries under the name of Abigail Johnson.

Logan Granger is a Pinkerton detective assigned to Dodge City area as an undercover bartender. When his mail-order bride, “Abby”, steps off the train she doesn’t fit the description of a matronly woman who has agreed to his marriage contract of no emotional attachments. There’s no time to reconsider--the preacher is waiting to marry them.

Rose hadn’t expected the handsome man waiting for her to be a bartender with a six shooter on his hip and a badge on his chest. Logan hadn’t expected his soon-to-be wife to be young, beautiful, and a runaway murder witness.

©2016 Maxine Douglas (P)2022 Barr26 Publishing, LLC