A Groom for Linda (The Blizzard Brides Book 4) by Lynn Donovan

Author:Lynn Donovan [Donovan, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-10T00:00:00+00:00



Linda stayed at the ferry crossing until she could no longer see them in the distance. Everyone else had gone to wherever they needed to be. Once the wagons’ silhouettes became dots and even those were no longer visible to her, she turned and walked the short distance to her home.

It was the last time she saw her husband alive.

Chapter Six

Two months later…

Linda sat with the other widows. Some embroidered, others knitted, still others sat around a quilt, stitching the two sides together with cotton batting between. Linda contemplated the story she had wanted to write while Ron was still alive. She had filled a notebook with scenes, she just couldn’t bring it all together for a cohesive story. Her typewriter she had saved so hard to buy sat untouched. Longingly, she wished she was as strong and brave as her character, Priscilla Bouillon.

It had become routine to gather at the church for tea, crafts, and company. The past few months had been awful. While she and her two surviving sisters and many friends of Last Chance wanted more time to mourn their dead husbands, it was Pastor Collins who blatantly informed them that unmarried women could not remain in their western town. They were too much of a temptation to the unwed men and riffraff who might wander in. He flat-out told the ladies they all had to go back east where they came from or marry immediately. Of course, he had volunteered himself to salvage any of the widows’ souls by marrying any one of them. None had accepted his offer.

Out of pure mortification, the women had gathered and resolved to place an advert in the Matrimonial Gazette inviting men with marriage in mind to come to Last Chance, Nebraska. Since hardly anyone was ready for a marriage of love, the advert simply announced there was a need for husbands. The widows gathered daily as much for camaraderie as to avoid Pastor Collins. As long as they appeared to be busy hunting for husbands, Pastor Collins left them alone. Ironically, the church became their refuge from their tormentor.

It took two long months, but a stranger named Jack Wendler arrived with a satchel filled with responses from men from all over. Mr. Wendler carried his own letter in his hand. When he arrived at the post office, it was Heather Barnes who had taken over the postmaster position because Faith Thornton, the postmaster’s widow, was too grieved to function in his stead. Heather took the satchel and the one additional letter and marched them and the stranger to the church. The letters were divided among the widows. Each woman received approximately six letters, some more, others less, to read through and decide to whom they would respond.

It was Celia Thornton who picked Mr. Wendler’s letter, and thus began the first of many courtships.

Linda had poured through her six letters. None of the letter writers seemed to hold a candle to her Ron. But if she wanted to stay in her home, and in Last Chance with her sisters, she had to make an effort to find a new husband.

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