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    A Western Fairytale: A Pair of Historical Romances
    A Western Fairytale: A Pair of Historical Romances
    A Western Fairytale: A Pair of Historical Romances
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    A Western Fairytale: A Pair of Historical Romances

    By Vanessa Carvo

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    James Gets His Georgia Peach, is the story of James, who settled in California and made a life, homestead, and ranch for himself along with his brother and his wife. He was missing something and when he figured out what it was, he wrote to his Aunt Maggie about both peach saplings and a bride for himself. He got everything he asked for, along with some unexpected guests and a woman with a past. Her past catches up with her but she finds an ally in her new husband and a solution to the family living on their land that need their freedom as much as she does.

    The Seamstress From Boston Teaches The Angry Nebraskan Rancher How to Love - A seamstress from Boston decides to head out to Nebraska and become the mail order bride to a rancher, but when she reaches the station and sees her cowboy, he is much older and much angrier than she would have ever imagined.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateOct 1, 2016
    ISBN9781365434532
    A Western Fairytale: A Pair of Historical Romances

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      A Western Fairytale: A Pair of Historical Romances

      A Western Fairytale: A Pair of Historical Romances

      By

      Vanessa Carvo

      © 2016 Quietly Blessed and Loved Press

      James Gets His Georgia Peach

      Synopsis -- James Gets His Georgia Peach, is the story of James, who settled in California and made a life, homestead, and ranch for himself along with his brother and his wife. He was missing something and when he figured out what it was, he wrote to his Aunt Maggie about both peach saplings and a bride for himself. He got everything he asked for, along with some unexpected guests and a woman with a past. Her past catches up with her but she finds an ally in her new husband and a solution to the family living on their land that need their freedom as much as she does.

      It had been a long, hard journey. Along the way, James’ parents had been killed in an Indian attack on the wagon train. Sarah, James’ sister-in-law, gave birth to a stillborn child. Johann, James’ older brother almost died in a rockslide as the wagons made their way over the mountains.

      Yes, it had been a long, hard journey. Still, as fourteen-year-old James pulled the reins up tight on the wagon he was driving, the view spread out before him presented him and Johann both a promise of a productive future.

      As Johann reined in his wagon, with Sarah seated beside him, the brothers looked at each other. They knew the land before them would take plenty of work, but they also knew the hard work would give them all they had ever wanted.

      With a flick of their wrists, both brothers guided the wagons down the hill to the hundred-acre plot that had been staked out for their family.

      Dear Aunt Maggie,

      December 19, 1856

      I hope you forgive the nature of this letter. Johann and I have spoken at great length, and decided that you would be the best person to ask for advice on this matter. I suppose I should just get down to it.

      Again, I hope you forgive the forwardness of this request. Much has happened here on our homestead. Our wheat farm is thriving. We started out with a plot of a hundred acres, but now take care of over three hundred acres.

      We are doing so well with the wheat, but we are also expanding into other forms of agriculture. We are very interested in starting an orchard of fruit trees. The climate here is superb, and the few fruit trees we have started from seeds are doing very well.

      That leads me to the first part of my inquiry. Georgia peaches are well known and loved. Johann and I have missed the peaches you used to send to Mama when we still lived in Virginia.

      Those fond memories have driven us to consider, if you are willing, to try to grow peaches here as well. However, growing peach trees from seedlings would take much too long to see a profitable return.

      Is it possible to order from you fifty peach saplings? We know some will likely perish on the journey to us. Regardless, we would like to pay you for each one.

      That inquiry complete, and I eager await your response and your advice, I need to move on to the next. Aunt Maggie, I am so embarrassed to ask this. However, after living here ten years and finding no young women suitable to marry and raise a family of my own, for many different reasons, I beseech of you to help me.

      Are there any young women there who might consider marrying a farmer like me? I understand very few women would consider marrying a man whom they have never met. Surely, though, you could tell them of me, what Johann and I have done here, and what I might be able to offer them here on this farm.

      None of those things are riches to be sure, but the life we have built here is comfortable. Any woman willing to be my bride would never go without. I have no preferences as to looks or build. I simply ask that she be strong minded, educated, and able to give a helping hand.

      Again, I hope you know how hard it is for me to ask this of you. I understand completely if you wish not to get involved in this aspect of my life. However, Johann and I agree that it could not hurt to ask.

      I hope and pray that the Lord has blessed you and the family as He has us. We are all eager to hear how our cousins are doing at their various universities. We are also eager to hear how you and Uncle John are getting on.

      My deepest regards,

      James

      James reread the letter twice before sealing it in an envelope. The next morning, he drove the letter to town and delivered it at the general store. The next mail shipment, he was told by the store clerk, would go out the day before Christmas.

      Satisfied that his letter would arrive by early spring, James left the store laden with Christmas goodies for Johann, Sarah, and their three children who ranged in age from five years old to nine months old.

      He did not think of the letter again until the following late February of 1857, when he got a reply from his Aunt Maggie.

      The letter arrived with a young man dressed sharp in an ironed and starched suit. The man’s top hat seemed strangely out of place among the rolling hillsides just beginning to thaw from the gentle winter the valley experienced.

      James looked at the young man as he shivered in the cool breezes and invited him quickly inside.

      You are Mr. James Sinclair? asked the young man who could have been no older than James’ twenty-four years of age.

      Yes, sir, that’s me, replied James.

      Ah. Very good, replied the man as he reached out his hand to shake James’ firmly. I am Theodore Moure from Moure, Burke, and Smith Law Firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

      From Atlanta? interrupted James.

      Yes. I have a letter and a contract for you specifically, as well as a contract of purchase for you and your brother Johann.

      James, bewildered, shook his head. He offered Mr. Moure a seat and sat opposite him at the plank table of the three-room home he shared with Johann’s family.

      Um… Well, I think you have caught me by surprise. Please explain.

      Mr. Moure reached into his leather satchel and pulled out two packets of paper tied with string. He looked closely at them both and put one on top of the other. Setting both packets in front of James, he started to explain.

      "The top packet is for you and Johann to read and sign. The purchase contract is from your Aunt and Uncle in Georgia for seventy-five peach saplings to be sent to you upon their receipt of this signed contract.

      "The purchase price covers

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