She returned one man’s ring rather than let her life be decided for her. She never dreamed she’d be the one asking another man to marry.
Clara Crowell hands back her fiancé’s ring, boards a train west, and at eighteen builds the first thing that has ever been truly hers. She does not expect the preacher.
Reverend Cole Reeve is everything the town could want in a minister but for one thing: he swears he will never wed, whatever it costs him.
But when Clara’s place in the town begins to slip from under her, and Cole stands to lose the pulpit that is his whole life, Clara offers a bold bargain.
"Marry me. A fair bargain. I’ll ask nothing you cannot give."
It is meant to be a marriage in name only: his calling saved, her place secured, nothing asked that either can’t give.
But a hurried marriage draws the wrong eyes, and is easily turned into a weapon — and everything they meant to protect is suddenly at greater risk than before.
Worse, a marriage of convenience is a perilous place to lose your heart.
Fail, and Clara goes back to the ring and the life she fled. Win, and she may lose the one thing the bargain forbade her to want.
A marriage of convenience. A preacher sworn never to wed. A bride who dared to ask.
The Bride Who Proposed is a heartwarming historical western romance of small-town charm, quiet faith, and slow-burning love.
Clara’s story stands on its own; readers of Snowbound with the Cattleman will be love the return to Red Willow Junction.
A clean and wholesome western historical fiction book by Faith Quinn.
