Nellie

Cynthia Woolf

Nov 2014 · The Brides of San Francisco Book 1 · Firehouse Publishing

About this ebook

 Nellie Wallace is a young widow with two children. In post civil-war New York, the men are scarce and none want the burden of a wife with children. Her dead husband's family is wealthy, and cruel. Desperate to escape their influence, and eager for a home, a husband, and a stable life for her children, Nellie decides to make a new life in San Francisco as a mail order bride.

 

Saloon owner Blake Malone is a bachelor and likes it that way. He worked hard for everything he has, but the San Francisco City Council won’t approve his plans to build a family emporium unless he is a family man himself. The solution? A mail order bride from New York who will bring him a ready-made family, stability, and the council's approval.

 

Blake expects his future wife to care for his home and, other than helping him impress the city council, to stay out of his business. He expects life as usual. What he gets is an unexpected desire to win Nellie's heart, a dangerous threat to his new bride, and a rich benefactor determined to steal his new family out from under him.  Blake believed his battle for success a hard one. But he will discover that the battle to win Nellie's heart and keep his family safe is going to take everything he's got.

Ratings and reviews

Enjoyable but needs editing! A cute historical romance which I enjoyed but was very frustrated by the repeated typo's and lack of editing - which is a huge shame as I enjoyed the book otherwise and it leads into what could be a good series if it was edited. This book is a free download, so it is worth a try and other than the typos I felt it was well written with interesting characters - not sure how historically correct they are....but we are reading fiction! I have bought the second in the series 'Annie' and also downloaded the first in a spin off from this series 'Mail Order Outlaw - The Brides of Tombstone', so I will see if these have better editing. If this book was edited and corrected it would be a four star review.

Cynthia Woolf is a really good writer. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was difficult to find a stopping place when I needed to stop. I would have given Nellie a 6 but for the explicit sex. It spoiled the book somewhat for me.

this book touched my heart about how life can change in a second. How a woman with children can continue on with loss and find a true love and have her family protected by a strong power from within herself.

About the author

 Cynthia Woolf is the award winning and best-selling author of thirty-one historical western romance books and two short stories with more books on the way.

 

Cynthia loves writing and reading romance. Her first western romance Tame A Wild Heart, was inspired by the story her mother told her of meeting Cynthia’s father on a ranch in Creede, Colorado. Although Tame A Wild Heart takes place in Creede that is the only similarity between the stories. Her father was a cowboy not a bounty hunter and her mother was a nursemaid (called a nanny now) not the ranch owner. The ranch they met on is still there as part of the open space in Mineral County in southwestern Colorado.

 

Writing as CA Woolf she has six scifi, space opera romance titles. She calls them westerns in space.

 

Cynthia credits her wonderfully supportive husband Jim and her great friends and critique partners for saving her sanity and allowing her to explore her creativity.