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Club Review
Bestselling author Deeanne Gist’s A Bride in the Bargain is sure to capture the hearts of long-time fans and new readers, as well.
It’s Seattle in the 1860s, where a man fortunate enough to have a wife by his side is entitled to 640 acres of timberland—but the men far outnumber the available women in this untamed wilderness. Because of his wife’s untimely death, Joe Denton finds himself in a precarious situation where the local judge is threatening to take away his claim. Though still in mourning for his wife, in desperation, Joe orders a Mercer bride—one of the eastern widows and orphans brought to the Territory by entrepreneur Asa Mercer.
Anna Ivey’s journey west with Asa Mercer’s prospective brides is an escape from the sorrows of her past and the aftermath of the ravages of the Civil War. Anna isn’t supposed to be a bride, though, just a cook for the women. But when they land, she’s handed over to Joe Denton and the two find themselves in a knotty situation, to say the least.
With only a few months left before he loses all he holds dear, can Joe convince this provoking, yet beguiling, easterner to become his lawfully wedded wife?
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