The Bride's Secret (The Silverdale Bride's #1)

Can this single mother escape the slums of New York to live a life of love and contentment?

Life is hard for Bertha as she struggles to pay the rent and put food on the table. Betrayed and pregnant at just seventeen, it isn’t the life she had planned.

A bad experience causes her to reaffirm her Christian values, to seek a new life in the West, and search for a loving father for her child. When she receives a letter from a lonely widower, she is hopeful for the future.

Alas, when she arrives in the West, her new companion is sidetracked with secret struggles of his own, so much so his life is endangered. How will Bertha cope when she realizes it’s not the child that’s the problem with their union?

Can she find the courage to face her past, so she can be accepted and live the life she desires. Or will the misunderstanding between the sweethearts remain unresolved making it too late to salvage the companionship?