Tabitha's Journey: A Stone Mountain Novella

A substitute mail-order bride? Bear Baldwin is crushed when he receives a wire notifying him that the woman with whom he has corresponded for almost a year has passed him off to her friend. Do the two women think he s like an old shirt to be handed down? His mother urges him to give the substitute fianc e a chance, but his pride is stung and he hasn t decided. Tabitha Masterson is certain whatever awaits her in Radford Springs, Texas will be better than what her brother and that awful William have in mind in Boston. After her father s death, her brother has become a tyrant. She escapes to start her new life in Texas, but trouble can t be far behind. She believes if she s married when trouble arrives, she ll be safe. But her fianc is reluctant to accept her as a substitute for the mail-order bride he d courted.