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    Filling His Heart With Love: A Pair of Historical Romances
    Filling His Heart With Love: A Pair of Historical Romances
    Filling His Heart With Love: A Pair of Historical Romances
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    Filling His Heart With Love: A Pair of Historical Romances

    By Vanessa Carvo

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    Woman & Child Facing The Odds To Reach Her Cowboy - A widow with a child decides to move from her farm after struggling to make ends meet by herself, so she corresponds with a cowboy in California. She travels to meet him in a city which is at the end of one of his cattle drives and they agree to marry. She returns to her home and then she and her son strike out west from North Carolina by wagon to meet her new fiancé. There are hazards and trials along the way, let alone the fact that her soon to be husband is often gone for months at a time.

    Trying To Forget The Past & Embracing The Present - An English woman has moved to California to become the mail order bride of a former gold miner with a daughter who is lost to him. There are obstacles to overcome first, one of which is the man’s former drunken life and what caused it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 22, 2016
    ISBN9781365274947
    Filling His Heart With Love: A Pair of Historical Romances

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      Filling His Heart With Love - Vanessa Carvo

      Filling His Heart With Love: A Pair of Historical Romances

      Filling His Heart With Love: A Pair of Historical Romances

      By

      Vanessa Carvo

      Copyright 2016 Quietly Blessed & Loved Press

      Woman & Child Facing The Odds To Reach Her Cowboy

      Synopsis: Woman & Child Facing The Odds To Reach Her Cowboy - A widow with a child decides to move from her farm after struggling to make ends meet by herself, so she corresponds with a cowboy in California. She travels to meet him in a city which is at the end of one of his cattle drives and they agree to marry. She returns to her home and then she and her son strike out west from North Carolina by wagon to meet her new fiancé. There are hazards and trials along the way, let alone the fact that her soon to be husband is often gone for months at a time.

      Frank sat in a saloon relaxing after a long trek back to Arizona from Mississippi. He had been accompanied by his small crew—a wrangler, two other cowboys, and a cook. They had pushed over 600 cattle from his farm to the Eastern state for sale on the local market. The job had paid well and Frank was sitting on a stool drinking a beer.

      He would typically enjoy a beer more than he was, but Frank was lost in thought. This drive had been a particularly troubling one. It wasn’t his company so much as his thoughts. Several times on the way back his companions had mentioned how much they were looking forward to coming home.

      Both of the cowboys and the cook had families waiting for them. Frank wondered if his other cowboy companion had been sharing the same thoughts he was having as they lay under the starry sky that night. Would Frank ever have a wife and family?

      Frank had come from a well-off family in North Carolina. His father was a skilled farmer and was able to earn a decent living. Frank, however, had always dreamed of the greater things in life. When the gold rush happened in 1849, Frank was very interested. His father told him he was being difficult and would never make it as a gold miner. However, Frank didn’t have anything holding him back.

      He and his wife had tried for years to have a child. When they did finally conceive, both she and the child died during labor. Frank had always dreamed of having a family, but now dreamed of heading west and staking his claim.

      Frank spent long hours working before he finally saved up enough for a boat ticket. He saved money for supplies, food and the other necessities he thought he was sure to need before he struck it rich. He sailed to California on The Senator in 1850.

      When they pulled into port, Frank was one of the first to grab his belongings and leave the ship. He sought out lodging for the night and purchased a horse. The next morning, he packed up his satchel, purchased food and drinks for the trip and set off for the river.

      Frank did find gold here and there. It was enough to purchase food and supplies, but not enough to make a decent living. Then, about a year after his arrival, Frank brought in a particularly large haul of gold. Instead of reinvesting this in the food and supplies he would need to keep mining, Frank made the decision to purchase himself a piece of land and build a small house.

      He then built a stable, a corral, and a few horses. Frank also grew some vegetables on his land. He had worked on a farm for years, and knew he could grow his own sustenance until he managed to make a living as a cowboy.

      It was now twenty years later. Frank was forty-two years old, a fairly successful man, and now missing the one thing that money couldn’t buy—a family.

      May sat at her table writing in her journal after a long day of work. It was her birthday. Today was a particularly stressful day. She went to the market to try to sell some of the potato crop from the current year and made some money, but not nearly enough. She was fearful of losing the house and finding work was hard, especially because she had to care for Joseph during the day.

      She had just turned thirty and was fearful of becoming an old spinster, and just a burden to her Joseph. He would be able to start working in a few years, but she didn’t expect him to support her in her old age. Even with his companionship, she felt destitute and lonely. She had needs that only a husband could satisfy. She didn’t see a lot of hope for herself though. No man would be interested in a widowed woman with a child, especially one of her age.

      May had her own property, but only because she had lost her husband in 1862. Joseph had been just a baby then and May worked as hard as she could to keep up her husband’s farm. The Civil War had also taken her brothers and father, leaving her mother alone. She had died just a few years later even though she was in perfect physical health, probably because of a broken heart. May now had no one but Joseph and was not sure how long she could take care of her son.

      She worked hard to keep up the farm, but her horses and cattle had died after contracting Texas Fever. She still sold fruits and vegetables at the market and worked long hours as a seamstress, but it was hard to make ends meet.

      While May was in the market that day, she had been speaking with some of the other women from surrounding farms. One had spoken of heading out west, where she had heard there were thousands of men looking for wives. She also spoke of a reading material called Matrimonial News. She said it published ads from men and women looking for companionship out west. It was a long shot, but May couldn’t stop thinking about having a family again. She knew there was little chance because of her age and marital status, but still had hope.

      After finishing her seamstress job the next day, May went out and bought paper and some ink. She sat down with her quill and began writing her advertisement for the Matrimonial News. After several tries, May came up with this:

      A hard-working widow of 30

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