The Blacksmith Brides Collection

Leah Guthrie bears the heavy burden of raising and caring for her brother and two sisters after the death of their parents. They scrape by on what she earns by washing neighbors’ clothes. Then the wagon wheel breaks.

Blacksmith Bo Allen has earned his reputation for quality work as well for his ornery character. Leah can’t pay him double his rate for a rush job. Something in him softens to see her struggle, especially with the trouble she has with her younger brother.

Yet Bo has endured much abuse in his childhood. He must find a way to deal with it.

This story deals with anger and forgiveness. The characters tugged at my heart and I couldn’t put it down.

I’ve read other books by this author and will look for more. Recommend!

I loved this whole collection.

-Sandra Merville Hart

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The Blacksmith Brides Collection

Widowed Esther Mathews brings her son, Charlie, back to live in her father’s home after her husband dies. Her father and sister make no efforts to get close to Charlie, who is different from other boys. Her heart breaks that no one loves him like she does. Until she meets the blacksmith.

Thomas Flynn, blacksmith, takes pride in his work, but he’s deeply in debts inherited from the man who apprenticed him. It will take years to pay them. Though he longs for Esther and Charlie to be his family, he can’t marry and saddle them with his debts … to her father.

The struggles faced by the sweet boy in the story raised all my maternal instincts. I fell in love with all the main characters, who each faced their own heartaches.

This story tugged at my heart. Recommend!

I’m loving this collection!

-Sandra Merville Hart

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The Blacksmith Brides Collection

Charles Bainbridge receives a deed to his father’s mine—one his father gambled away—from a friend, who was on his deathbed. Charles made a living as a blacksmith, but mining was in his blood. This deed gave him an opportunity to alter his future.

Elowyn Brody has felt the backside of her father’s hand too often not to follow him without questioning. Had she known where he led, she might have escaped what he planned.

But she didn’t know.

Fate draws Charles and Elowyn together at a moment of crisis. How can he, a struggling blacksmith, help her?

The struggle faced by the characters tugged at my heart. I found myself pulling for them as they both dealt with difficult memories from their own past.

I’m loving this collection!

-Sandra Merville Hart

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Hearts of Montana Series, Book One

Ingrid Chastain shares the urgency of her father, a doctor, to deliver life-saving vaccines to a town in the Montana Territory but she is the sole survivor of a terrible wagon accident.

Dr. Micah Bradley has been living in the remote mountains for years … since his inadequacies cost his wife and daughter their lives. Yet when he stumbles on Ingrid after the accident, he must call on his skills again to set and heal her broken leg.

Before long, Ingrid insists on taking the vaccines to Settler’s Fort without further delay. Lives depend upon the medicine. Micah realizes she’s right. She can’t walk and he can’t leave her in the mountains to die. He’ll have to figure out a way to carry her to town, a journey of weeks by foot.

I fell in love with characters early in the story. There were several surprising turns, challenges, and dangers that kept my interest. This is a well-written story that makes me want to read the next book in the series.

Recommend! I will look for more books by this author.

-Sandra Merville Hart

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Part of The Backcountry Brides Collection – Eight 18^th Century Women Seek Love on Colonial America’s Frontier

 This novella is set at Fort McCrea, along the Upper Mississippi River in 1792.

Abi McCrea longs to leave her father’s fur post for her sister’s Montreal home, located in the wilderness within stockade walls, but he will not allow it.

Henry Kingsley works for Abi’s uncle in Montreal. He travels a long way to deliver a letter to Abi’s father. The news of an inheritance may take her father from his family. What will become of Abi and her Chippewa mother?

The author did a great job showing the prejudice that some felt for the Native Americans in the new country of the United States. I enjoyed the story.

A good read! I will look for more books by this author.

-Sandra Merville Hart

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Part of The Backcountry Brides Collection – Eight 18^th Century Women Seek Love on Colonial America’s Frontier

 This novella is set in 1781. It starts in Charlotte Town, North Carolina, and moves to the wilderness.

The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown was supposed to have ended everything. Jedidiah Wheeler, who had fought with the Continental Regulars in a war for independence, hates that loyalists still ravage the Carolinas. He accepts a dangerous mission to try to stop them.

Lizzy Cunningham lives in the South Carolina backcountry, keeping house for her ungrateful and abusive father and brothers. She stays busy from morning to night working at their tavern.

When a stranger comes to the tavern one cold evening, Lizzy can’t trust the kindness in his eyes or his respectful manner. Experience has taught her that no man can be trusted.

As danger escalates, she finds herself hoping that Jed is the man he seems to be.

Believable characters in harsh circumstances make this book a page turner. I also loved learning the history after the Revolutionary War ended.

A good read! I will look for more books by this author.

-Sandra Merville Hart

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