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    Mail Order Bride: Blinded By Love (Brides Of The West: Book 1)
    Mail Order Bride: Blinded By Love (Brides Of The West: Book 1)
    Mail Order Bride: Blinded By Love (Brides Of The West: Book 1)
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    Mail Order Bride: Blinded By Love (Brides Of The West: Book 1)

    By Leah Wyett

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    A historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride.
    In 1870, Hazel Lynn Morgan was a girl right on the verge of becoming a woman. She lives in a small town on a farm in Ohio, where nothing new or exciting ever happens. She has survived this long by reading books about exotic places and using her imagination, or what her Ma has termed, her “Magical Thinking.”
    Will a simple mail order bride ad placed by a cattle rancher in Texas named Heath Key change Hazel’s life for the better? Or will the secret that Heath is hiding threaten to ruin both of their lives? Will the man who has been by Heath’s side as his best friend since childhood bring them closer or come between them in the end?
    Follow Hazel on her journey to adulthood as she discovers that sometimes you have to close your eyes to really be able to see.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGold Crown
    Release dateJul 11, 2014
    ISBN9781310256592
    Mail Order Bride: Blinded By Love (Brides Of The West: Book 1)

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      A sweet romantic, love story about someone with deep faith
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      it started out very good but I felt like I was left hanging. There was so many things left unanswered.

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    Mail Order Bride - Leah Wyett

    LEAH WYETT

    Mail Order Bride: Blinded By Love

    Brides of the West: Book One

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    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright

    © 2014 by Leah Wyett

    All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced in any format, by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior consent from the copyright owner and publisher of this book.

    This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously.

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    First Printing, 2014

    Dedication

    To YOU, The reader.

    Thank you for your support.

    Thank you for your emails.

    Thank you for your reviews.

    Thank you for reading and joining me on this road.

    Contents

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Chapter Nine

    Chapter Ten

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    Chapter One

    June 14th 1870

    Erie County, Ohio

    Hazel wandered across the docks, waiting for her father to finish loading the grain onto their wagon. She had been hoping to get a new book today but she didn’t see the Mighty Dragon anywhere. That was the name of the boat that shipped books from New York. The old captain always gave Hazel a book when he saw her and she was currently out of anything to read. There wasn’t a single bookstore in the town where she lived. Hazel often thought she must have been destined to be born in a different time, or in a different place at least. A place where there were more books….As she walked, her foot brushed across an old newspaper as it blew up on the pier. She bent down to pick it up, thinking that reading the news might be better than reading nothing at all.

    When she reached to pick it up, the paper blew away in her hands, leaving nothing behind but the classified advertisement section. She raised an eyebrow as she read the post at the top, which said:

    Matrimonial Ads: Cost to post as follows: Gentlemen pay $.25 for forty word advertisements. Ladies will be given forty words free of charge. Any advertisements over forty words will be charged at a rate of a penny per word.

    Hazel had never heard of anything like this. People advertise for marriage? Her curiosity was piqued. She sat down on a crate and read on:

    Although this periodical is not in any way responsible for the willful misrepresentation of one’s self for matrimonial purposes, if informed that is the case, your article will be stricken from publication and a refund will not be forthcoming.

    Hazel wasn’t sure what misrepresentation meant, but it didn’t sound good. She read the first article under the heading. It said:

    A young gentleman, 26 years of age. Handsome and responsible. Untarnished reputation. Possesses a loving heart. Recent passing of my dear father of only 46 years of age has left me sole owner of the largest cattle ranch in Texas. I am with much wealth and means. However, I am without a loving soul to share it with. I am hoping to find a woman of simple purity and devoted love. I prefer a girl between the ages of 18 and 24. Looks are not so important as long as she is not overly large or thin like a stick. I would like to correspond for an ample time to assure that, as husband and wife, we would be compatible and happy for life. Please do not inquire if you are in a hurry, I like to take things slow and steady. Please address in strictest confidence stating age and enclose cabinet card.

    Hazel was intrigued. She knew very little about love and marriage, having been somewhat sheltered by her parents, but as an avid reader and possessor of a fantastic imagination, she was afflicted by a malady her mother called magical thinking. She wondered now if fate had blown that paper under her feet, and placed this young man’s ad in a prominent position for her to see.

    Hazel! Let’s git ! Her father was calling her. Hazel tucked the paper into her bosom and ran to where her father waited.

    ***********

    July 22nd

    What are you reading? Laura asked her sister, Hazel. Laura had been sitting peacefully in the porch swing before her sister had found her.

    Hazel flashed the cover of the book at Laura. She had gone back to the docks with her father the following week and the old Captain had given her a new book.

    Twenty—Thousand—Leagues—Under—The—Sea…What’s it about? Laura asked her. Laura just turned ten a few weeks before. She was the most curious person Hazel had ever met. Their mother told her all the time that she was so curious she should have been a cat.

    It’s about a man named Captain Nemo and his submarine. Hazel said.

    What’s a submarine? Laura said. Hazel sighed and put the book aside. She wasn’t going to get any more reading done today. Her little sister said Who, What, and Why more times a day than Hazel cared to count.

    You can read the book when I’m finished and find out. Hazel told her. She kept encouraging her little sister to read, telling her that it was the best way to satisfy a burning curiosity. Do you want to go swimming?

    Yes! Laura’s face lit up. She loved going down to the canal and swinging off the rope their daddy had tied to the big, old eucalyptus tree. I’ll put on my bathing suit. She took off running in the house before Hazel could reply.

    Tell Mama where we’re going. she yelled after her as the screen door slammed shut. Hazel heard the whinny of a horse then and looked down the long dirt road that led to their house. She could see her father riding in with a dust cloud rising behind him. Hazel got up and stood at the banister of the porch. She watched her father approach and she wondered if he had gone to the post office when he was in town, and if he did, if he had a letter for her…She also wondered if he had already read it.

    Hazel’s father, Hal Morgan, couldn’t just simply be described as a large man, or a big man, or even a giant man. A person needed to use words like humongous or gargantuan to describe him. He stood six foot seven in his stocking feet and one of his hands could hold four of a normal sized person’s. He wasn’t fat in any way, but he was kept from being thin by the muscles in his chest, back, and arms, which he had earned from years of hard work on their wheat farm. Hal was a simple man. He loved his land, his wife, his daughters, and God, not necessarily in that order. He had loved his country before it claimed the life of his son. Hazel wasn’t sure if he still did. Everything else that came along in

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