The San Francisco Brides Series by Ellie Haywood

The San Francisco Brides - a mail order bride series beginning in the mid 1850s, as the Gold Rush was drawing to a close. The series starts with Harriet Clark and her journey, and then one by one, other residents and servants of the Clark mansion in New York find their way to San Francisco, hoping for a better life.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... moreThe San Francisco Brides - a mail order bride series beginning in the mid 1850s, as the Gold Rush was drawing to a close. The series starts with Harriet Clark and her journey, and then one by one, other residents and servants of the Clark mansion in New York find their way to San Francisco, hoping for a better life.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 awealthy 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? less

The San Francisco Brides - a mail order bride series beginning in the mid 1850s, as the Gold Rush was drawing to a close. The series starts with Harriet Clark and her journey, and then one by one, other residents and servants of the Clark mansion in New York find their way to San Francisco, hoping for a better life.This final book features Tamara, who finally meets the love of her life. She finds Emmett in a sickly, injured state, but he immediately strikes her as a good, decent man... moreThe San Francisco Brides - a mail order bride series beginning in the mid 1850s, as the Gold Rush was drawing to a close. The series starts with Harriet Clark and her journey, and then one by one, other residents and servants of the Clark mansion in New York find their way to San Francisco, hoping for a better life.This final book features Tamara, who finally meets the love of her life. She finds Emmett in a sickly, injured state, but he immediately strikes her as a good, decent man. He tells her the truth of why he’d disappeared – he was kidnapped by Confederates as the Civil war began. As Emmett heals, she continues to see him and their relationship begins to blossom.Tamara and her sisters receive a letter from their mother with the news that their father has passed, and that she plans to make her way to San Francisco. Tamara is excited about her mother joining them, but to Tamara’s deep disappointment when she arrives, her mother is tactless and unkind about the fact that Emmett is not a rich businessman. She insists that he is not fit for her, and demands that she not marry him. Tamara begins to feel like a complete failure.One evening, Emmett takes her out to dinner and suddenly produces a ring and proposes to her. Tamara’s whole heart wants to say yes. But she thinks of what her mother will say and tells him she’ll need to think it over. However, the next day, she decides she’ll accept his proposal, despite her mother’s reaction. But now he has urgent news for her - he must accept a mission, and it’s possible he may never see her again.She now must make a decision, but will there be a consequence?Find out by downloading for free with Kindle Unlimited... less