Mail-Order Brides of the West: Lina — Debra Holland

MAIL-ORDER BRIDES OF THE WEST is a collaborative series by New York Times bestselling author Debra Holland and USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe. When Lina Napolitano's nanny position ends, she has no desire to return to the crowded family compound in St. Louis and endure the pressure from all her boisterous and overbearing Italian relatives to marry a local man. After eight years of living away from her family, she's accustomed to making her own decisions. Lina wishes to be a wife -- just not of the local garbage man or fishmonger. Traveling as a mail-order bride to Sweetwater Springs, Montana seems like the perfect solution to escaping her smothering family and forging her own life. After childbirth robs Jonah Barrett of his Indian wife, he is left to raise their toddler Adam alone. When Adam falls into the fireplace and burns his hand, Jonah becomes desperate to find the boy a mother -- one who'll care for him and accept the child's half-breed heritage. And a woman who doesn't know Jonah's whole past. Will outgoing, demonstrative Lina fit into his solitary world and want to stay? Or will this mail-order marriage be over before the relationship really begins? Mail-Order Brides of the West: Lina takes place simultaneously with Mail-Order Brides of the West: Heather and is set seven years before Wild Montana Sky. See Caroline Fyffe's companion book, Mail-Order Brides of the West: Heather, to find out what happens to Lina's friend and fellow mail-order bride when she travels to Y Knot, Montana to become the wife of lumber mill owner Hayden Klinkner. 1880s Mail-Order Brides of the West Series in order: Mail-order Brides of the West: Trudy Mail-order Brides of the West: Evie Mail-order Brides of the West: Heather Mail-order Brides of the West: Lina Watch for more exciting Mail-Order Brides of the West books to come. 1890s Montana Sky Series in Order: Wild Montana Sky Starry Montana Sky Stormy Montana Sky Painted Montana Sky Montana Sky Christmas Sweetwater Springs Christmas Glorious Montana Sky (Fall, 2014)