The Bookseller's Mail-Order Bride: A new-beginnings historical western romance (Mail-Order Brides of the Southwest Book 2)

She dreams of a new life back East. His heart is planted in the new state of Oklahoma. With their trial marriage ending on Christmas Eve, will she open her heart to a future together?

Hailey Jefferson doesn’t want a husband. Needing to escape her mother’s mortifying reputation, she decides to become a mail-order bride…but only on her terms. Giving her husband a trial marriage seems the perfect plan until she realizes he wants more.

Orphaned as a young boy, Alex Croft dreams of having his own family and figures a mail-order bride is the solution to his life’s void. However, when Hailey announces a trial marriage, he has only until Christmas Eve to convince her to stay. Will his wish come true or will Hailey break his lonely heart?