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Country Angel - Book 1 of the Cordova Series

Annie Collins grew up on a farm with her father just outside of Cordova in Missouri. It was hard keeping the farm going during the War Between the States. Her sister died giving birth to twins during childbirth, and her husband died in the war. Annie adopted her twins and raised them as her own. She found a small black child on her back porch during the war. He was almost dead from starvation. Annie took him in and kept him as another of her own children. Her father helped her keep the farm going, but then he died during the winter of the last year of the war. How was she going to plow the fields without him?

A lot of men were writing for Mail Order Brides, Annie decided to write for a Mail Order Groom. It was the only way to save her farm and keep the children with her…and she decided she wasn’t going to part with her children.

Jeb MacAllister had fought for the Confederates and for the South. He had been gone for almost four and a half years. He had lived in Tennessee and came home to find that his wife had died giving birth to his second child…and he never knew. The letter had never got to him. His son was almost six, and his daughter was almost four. Neither recognized him when he arrived at his home. His mother-in-law had been taking care of his two children since his wife had died. She was angry and had taken it out on his two little kids. She was also sick and was heading to a sanitorium as soon as she got rid of them. He packed up his belongings and his children as soon as was possible, but he had nowhere to go.

He bought a newspaper and saw the ad for a Mail Order Groom…what in heavens name? He’d never heard of such a thing! But her letter intrigued him, it did give him a place to go and take his children. Maybe he could talk her into letting him stay, plant her fields, and she could watch over his children…it was worth a chance. Cordova, Missouri…it was worth a shot. What did he have to lose? He sent a telegram the same day and set out for Missouri from Tennessee. It would take them about three weeks to get there. He sure hoped he liked this Annie Collins.