Camellia
(2025)(The sixth book in the Garden Belles Mail-Order Brides series)
A novel by Nancy Fraser
From the time she was two years old, Camellia Sutton has been told she’s ‘Too smart for her own good’. It all began when she started reading storybooks to her older brother. When her mother took the books away, Camellia began telling him the stories, verbatim, from memory.
Now, at twenty-four, with a degree in medical research, Camellia is looking to escape her previous life in Saint Louis and get away from those who want to stifle her intellect. When a new friend suggests she relocate to Oregon, as a mail-order bride, Camellia is hesitant. What if her arranged husband wants children? Having grown up as she did, the last thing she wants is to risk having an exceptional child that will face the hardships she endured.
Widower, Owen Marshall, teaches mathematics at the University of Oregon. He can handle his lesson plans and his students just fine. What he can’t handle is his nine-year-old daughter. With her late mother’s spoiled personality, she’s becoming a handful. He’d hoped his housekeeper would provide the discipline his daughter needs, but he’s not so sure. Especially when the woman in question insists that he’d needs himself a wife, someone much closer to the girl’s age. Reluctantly, he responds to an advertisement for a mail-order bride.
If Camillia agrees to relocate and become Owen’s bride, will he honor his promise to allow her a career? How will he react if the subject of more children arises? Can two people with exceptional intellects learn to outsmart an adolescent girl so they can all live happily ever after?
Genre: Inspirational
Now, at twenty-four, with a degree in medical research, Camellia is looking to escape her previous life in Saint Louis and get away from those who want to stifle her intellect. When a new friend suggests she relocate to Oregon, as a mail-order bride, Camellia is hesitant. What if her arranged husband wants children? Having grown up as she did, the last thing she wants is to risk having an exceptional child that will face the hardships she endured.
Widower, Owen Marshall, teaches mathematics at the University of Oregon. He can handle his lesson plans and his students just fine. What he can’t handle is his nine-year-old daughter. With her late mother’s spoiled personality, she’s becoming a handful. He’d hoped his housekeeper would provide the discipline his daughter needs, but he’s not so sure. Especially when the woman in question insists that he’d needs himself a wife, someone much closer to the girl’s age. Reluctantly, he responds to an advertisement for a mail-order bride.
If Camillia agrees to relocate and become Owen’s bride, will he honor his promise to allow her a career? How will he react if the subject of more children arises? Can two people with exceptional intellects learn to outsmart an adolescent girl so they can all live happily ever after?
Genre: Inspirational
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