A Journey for Katie
(2023)(The sixth book in the Reluctant Wagon Train Bride series)
A novel by Marianne Spitzer
Harris Gibson plans to head to Oregon with his brother and sister-in-law. Last-minute difficulties leave him alone with a large wagon and supplies for three people.
Katie Burns’ father is a drunkard and deeply in debt. He decides his best asset is his eighteen-year-old daughter and takes her to the wagon train gathering spot to sell her as a wife to any man for fifty dollars.
When Harris hears a slovenly, drunken man of forty bragging that he plans to buy a young, innocent wife, Harris steps in to save Katie from a life worse than she had at home.
With a promise to be a gentleman and bring Katie safely to Oregon, where she can build a new life for herself and annul their marriage, the couple set out on the wagon train.
Will the grueling trip from Missouri to Oregon bring this couple together, or will they go their separate ways once reaching their destination?
This is a sweet romance.
Genre: Inspirational
Katie Burns’ father is a drunkard and deeply in debt. He decides his best asset is his eighteen-year-old daughter and takes her to the wagon train gathering spot to sell her as a wife to any man for fifty dollars.
When Harris hears a slovenly, drunken man of forty bragging that he plans to buy a young, innocent wife, Harris steps in to save Katie from a life worse than she had at home.
With a promise to be a gentleman and bring Katie safely to Oregon, where she can build a new life for herself and annul their marriage, the couple set out on the wagon train.
Will the grueling trip from Missouri to Oregon bring this couple together, or will they go their separate ways once reaching their destination?
This is a sweet romance.
Genre: Inspirational
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