Mail Order Bride On The Bay: A Pacific Northwest Adventure (Sweet Haven California #0)

Widowed at a young age, left saddled with debt and a baby on the way, Ramona Benjamin needed an escape from Santa Barbara before her dead husband's enemies closed in. Never in her life had she expected to go up north into the wild, untamed land of redwoods, but desperate times called for desperate measures and she answered an ad in the newspaper for a wife.

Zeke Lincoln had plans for his inheritance. His father before him had grown wealthy off the land with a sprawling and loving family, now Zeke was ready to repeat his father's feat, carving out a horse ranch from the untouched wilderness. He sent off for a bride, but never expected a defiant beauty who would expand his family much sooner than expected. What's a man to do with a pregnant mail order bride?

This short novella is a prologue to the Sweet Haven California series, telling the origins the Lincoln family, introduced in Cowboy's Harmony, Sweet Town #18.

The historical Pacific Northwest has never been so vibrant as it is in Sarah Christian's Sweet Haven California series. Mixing the real history of the settlement of Humboldt Bay by European pioneers with fiction, the town of Sweet Haven is hailed as the Jewel of the Ultimate West, where the redwoods touch the sky and possibilities never end.

Sweet Haven romances tell the intertwining stories of the people of the Pacific Northwest who fall in love, fight for land and power, and establish dynasties that will outlast them all. Cowboys and mail order brides can be found here, but so too can lumberjacks, fishermen, and outlaws running from their pasts. Welcome to Sweet Haven.