The Farmer's Bride Collection: 6 Romances Spring from Hearts, Home, and Harvest - Softcover

Comeaux, Kimberley; Downs, Susan; Grote, JoAnn A.; Kennedy, Ellen Edwards; Mayne, Debby; Mills, DiAnn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624162312 ISBN 13: 9781624162312

Publisher: Barbour Books, 2013

Synopsis

Love is in season as you journey into rural America’s history and witness the harvest of romance through six delightful stories. From Minnesota to Florida, New York to Kansas, and Ohio to Louisiana, heroic men and women make sacrifices in order to create a home, nurture the crops, and secure a future for the next generation, but sometime romance is almost an afterthought. Can love also grow down on the farm?

About this title

Book Description:

In six historic novellas, romance eludes farmers bent to the plow to plant, tend, and harvest the crop on their homesteads. Can love also grow in the hearts of these hardworking Americans who were the foundation of a rapidly expanding country?

From the Back Cover:

A Season to Sow, a Season to Reap, a Season to Love

Homesteads fueled the expansion of America, and these farms depended on families to run them. In this collection of six down-on-the-farm stories, marriages are formed often with the future of the land in mind before romance.

One Little Prayer by Kimberley Comeaux

The Tie That Binds by Susan K. Downs

A Homesteader, a Bride, and a Baby by JoAnne Grote

The Applesauce War by Ellen Edwards Kennedy

Sunshine Harvest by Debby Mayne

New Beginnings by DiAnn Mills

From Minnesota to Florida, New York to Kansas, and Ohio to Louisiana, heroic men and women make sacrifices in order to create a home, bring in the harvest, and secure a future for the next generation. But will love, friendship, and faith also flourish out of the land God entrusts to them?

 

Front flap:

One Little Prayer by Kimberley Comeaux, an author in full-time ministry with her husband in Louisiana.

Louanne Wise, a precocious nine-year-old girl, yearns for someone to call Dad” since her own died in the War Between the States. Her mother has been running their Louisiana farm alone for too long. So when Louanne finds a man wounded in her woods, she feels her dreams could come true. But her mother may not be as easy to convince.

The Tie That Binds by Susan K. Downs, an author and editor from Texas.

A band of fifteen orphans have arrived in Kansas on a train from New York City, including Anna and Andrew Clymer who are determined to stay together. Luck has it that each child is adopted by a single parent, but it will take a miracle to get the stubborn widowed seamstress and the arrogant wheat farmer together to form a family.

A Homesteader, a Bride, and a Baby by JoAnn A. Grote, a multi-published author and Minnesota native.

Diphtheria has robbed Lorette Taber of her only sister and left her to care for her infant nephew. The Minnesota homestead the child inherited isn’t profitable, even if Lorette could manage to run it alone. How can a single woman earn a living and raise a child? And, how can she avoid ugly rumors that plague her friendship with a helpful homesteader?

The Applesauce War by Ellen Edwards Kennedy, author of mysteries and romances from North Carolina.

In a mischievous attempt to match their children together, Verity McCracken’s and Pete Delorme’s fathers have created a real rift between the families. The McCrackens need help to harvest their bountiful apple crop, but the Delormes won’t lend one hand this year. Verity and Pete work together to try and decipher how the problem ever started between Christians, but that only makes the fathers madder. How can this rotten feud be mended?

Back flap:

Sunshine Harvest by Debby Mayne, a multi-published author from Florida.

What is a young woman to do when her father suddenly dies, her mother goes into depression, and a large crew of citrus harvesters are depending on her for their livelihood? Anna Drake is not a quitter and she won’t accept charity. But Daniel Hopkins is not deterred from showing Christian kindness, and soon Anna is surrendering segments of her stubborn heart.

New Beginnings by DiAnn Mills, a bestselling and award-winning author from Texas.

Betsy Malone is living a lie. Married to her childhood sweetheart, Nicholas, and moving to an Ohio farm, Betsy tries desperately to hide her horrible secret: She no longer loves him, if she ever did. Always perceptive, Nicholas can’t be fooled for long, and Betsy fears what will happen when he discovers the truth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barbour Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1624162312
• ISBN 13: 9781624162312
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400