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    To Love a Stranger
    To Love a Stranger
    To Love a Stranger
    Audiobook4 hours

    To Love a Stranger

    Written by Colleen Coble

    Narrated by Devon O'Day

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Traveling to a rugged country to meet her new husband for the first time, Bessie wonders, Can love truly conquer fear?

    Bessie Randall is shocked to discover that, thanks to her sister’s meddling, she is married by proxy to Jasper Mendenhall, a man she’s never met. Believing she has no choice but to honor the marriage, Bessie travels from Boston to Jasper’s military quarters in Fort Bridger, Utah Territory.

    Jasper Mendenhall is equally shocked when he meets his wife at the stagecoach and realizes she is not the beauty from the picture he holds. But Jasper has orders to move to Arizona Territory, and he has no choice but to take Bessie with him.

    Bessie and Jasper’s mutual distrust is hard enough, but snakebites, Apache raids, and food shortages present even more challenges as they head to the Southwest. A story of quiet commitment despite the odds, To Love a Stranger explores how love can grow in the most difficult land.

    • USA TODAY bestselling author
    • Historical romance with a hint of mystery
    • Stand-alone novel
    • Other historical fiction from Colleen Coble: The Heart Answers, Butterfly Palace, Freedom’s Light, Blue Moon Promise, Safe in His Arms
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJul 13, 2021
    ISBN9780785288237
    To Love a Stranger
    Author

    Colleen Coble

    Colleen Coble is the USA TODAY bestselling author of more than seventy-five books and is best known for her coastal romantic suspense novels. Connect with her online at colleencoble.com; Instagram: @colleencoble; Facebook: @colleencoblebooks; X: @colleencoble.

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    • 4/5
      To Love a Stranger is fourth in the Wyoming series by Collen Coble. Of all the for books Jasper was my favorite of the male characters. He has been corresponding with Bessie Randall but it was actually Lenore, Bessie's sister. Lenore wrote the letters and used Bessie's name. Lenore is a spoiled little brat very similar in character to the way Jessica used to be. Anyway Lenore informs her sister of what she had been doing and that now Bessie and Jasper are married by proxy. Thinking her sister would get into trouble she goes ahead with the marriage. Jasper was quite shocked to see plain Bessie instead of the beautiful Lenore. He was very kind to her but he was not sure he wanted to stay in the marriage. I loved how they grew to love each other and how they took in a motherless native American baby to love as their own. There was some action in the book that kept me turning the pages. You didn't know who was going to come out alive.

      This was a sweet book which was a quick read. Thanks to Netgalley and Thomas Nelson for providing me an e-copy of this book to review.