In Want of a Wife (Bitter Springs #3)
Jo Goodman
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
3.79
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 38 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 06 May 2014

Jane Middlebourne needs a way out. In 1891, life in New York is unforgiving for a young woman with no prospects, especially when her family wants nothing to do with her. So when Jane discovers an ad for a mail-order bride needed in Bitter Springs, Wyoming, she responds with a hopeful heart.
He has everything to lose...
Rancher Morgan Longstreet is in want of a wife who will be his partner at Morning Star, someone who will work beside him and stand by him. His first impression of the fair and fragile Jane is that she is not that woman. But when she sets out to prove him wrong, the secrets he cannot share put into jeopardy every happiness they hope to find….
Tagged as:
- western 11
- historical 11
- tortured hero 10
- marriage of convenience 9
- cowboy hero 9
- western frontier 9
- tortured heroine 6
- slow burn 5
- virgin heroine 4
- m-f romance 3
- sassy heroine 2
- dual pov 2
- third person pov 2
- pregnancy 2
- competent heroine 2
- Add topics
- content warnings
- abuse 5
- miscarriage / infertility 3
- past child abuse 2
- child sexual abuse 2
- past abuse 1
- past sexual abuse 1
- geography
- usa 1
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The 'Bitter Springs' series
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length-medium · western · historical western · m-f · historical · third-person-pov · explicit-open-door · marriage of convenience · cowboys · dual-pov
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