Harriet (The San Francisco Brides #1)
Ellie Haywood
Harriet Clark, is the eldest daughter of a wealthy family living in New York, and as a result, she’s grown up frivolous and vain. However, disaster strikes when Harriet and one of her suitors is caught kissing in the library of their mansion. Her father is furious when he comes across them, and now she is considered damaged goods in the eyes of her family, their high society friends, and her other suitors. Her forthcoming punishment is unbearable. One of the few people who hasn't turned against her is her personal maid and friend, Betsy. In desperation, with Betsy's help she decides to become a mail-order bride.
She travels West to meet Robert Mitchell, a well respected doctor in San Francisco. He's been living there since before the Gold Rush, when San Francisco was just a little community. But the Gold Rush changed everything, and now Robert finds himself run off his feet as he struggles to tend to the sick and poor of the growing community. He decides that his life as a doctor is becoming far too lonely and busy on his own. At a friend's suggestion, he advertises for a mail-order bride to help cook and clean.
But he’s expecting a quiet homebody – not a socialite running from scandal. Harriet is a huge disappointment to him: he starts to think he’s married a worthless bride. And she is no less disappointed in him: she had hoped to marry a
wealthy doctor, only to find that Robert often works for free and hardly has a spare penny to his name.
But when a devastating cholera epidemic sweeps through San Francisco late in 1855, how will both Robert and Harriet both discover that the other is worth more than any amount of gold?
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