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Some promises cost you the one you love.

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Running from her past, she finds a killer, a protector, and her faith.

A Bride of Convenience by Jody Hedlund

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Together Forever, May 2018
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An Uncertain Choice, March 2015
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Captured By Love, July 2014
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Rebellious Heart, September 2013
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A Noble Groom, April 2013
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A BRIDE OF CONVENIENCE
By: Jody Hedlund

Bride Ships #3
Bethany House Publishers
July 2020
On Sale: June 30, 2020
352 pages
ISBN: 0764232975
EAN: 9780764232978
Kindle: B0821PQM6T
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Romance Historical | Women's Fiction Historical

Upon discovering an abandoned baby, Pastor Abe Merivale joins efforts with Zoe Hart, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women, to care for the infant. With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, Abe offers his hand as Zoe's groom. But after a hasty wedding, they soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all.

Unemployed mill worker Zoe Hart jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being accused of a crime.

Pastor to miners in the mountains, Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned baby during a routine visit to Victoria and joins efforts with Zoe, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women, to care for the infant. While there, he's devastated by the news from his fiancee in England that she's marrying another man.

With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, Zoe accepts a proposal from a miner of questionable character after he promises to help her locate her brother. Intent on protecting Zoe and frustrated by his failed engagement, Abe offers his own hand as groom. After a hasty wedding, they soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all.

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