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Certain secrets won’t stay hidden…
Hoping to escape the shame of her street-urchin’s life in Boston, Anna Reardon plots a desperate scheme – to become Karl Lindstrom’s mail-order bride in the dangerous frontier territory of Minnesota. He’s expecting a twenty-five-year-old capable housekeeper. He gets a skinny seventeen-year-old, with hair the colour of whisky and no domestic abilities whatsoever. And she’s brought her little brother along.
But Karl is a kind and gentle man, who forgives Anna her deceptions. Slowly the come to trust each other and, gradually, trust becomes a tender passion. Yet Anna knows there is one secret she must keep at all costs: just how she earned the money to bring her brother from Boston to Minnesota…
Paperback, 368 pages. In very good preloved condition.