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Mail Order Lorena (Widows, Brides & Secret Babies Book 17) Kindle Edition

by Zina Abbott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
Trusting the acceptable wrong man led to the ruin of her life and self-respect.
Can trusting the unacceptable right man return to her what was lost?

The man who promised to provide and protect left Lorena Mayfield to do the providing and protecting. She went from being the daughter of a respected Little Rock, Arkansas clergyman and widow of a fallen Confederate officer to living a “fate worse than death.” Is there a way to escape the life in which she finds herself trapped and still protect the only person left to her she dearly loves?

Eustace Cantrell lost his Georgia home, his livelihood, and his family during the American Civil War. To make matters worse, he fought for the losing side. First hired as a low-paid stock tender for the Butterfield Overland Despatch stagecoach company, he now has a chance at managing his own station. His dilemma is, Ellsworth Station in Kansas is a home station. It is to be run by a family, not by a single, hardened combat veteran who feels nothing for anyone, least of all himself.

Lorena needs protection from her late husband’s family so she can reclaim her own. Eustace needs restoration of his soul. Can each of them escape their pasts and together find their future?

Please look for my other two books in the Widows, Brides & Secret Babies series, Mail Order Roslyn (available now) and Mail Order Penelope (available August 14, 2020). Although each story is written as a stand-alone book, the three stories are related. Part or all of them involve the stagecoaches and stations on the Kansas frontier in 1866 and 1867.
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    Widows, Brides, and Secret Babies
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  4. Publication date
    July 3, 2020
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B088W5KTJJ
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 3, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.6 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings

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Zina Abbott

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ZINA ABBOTT is the pen name used by Robyn Echols for her historical novels.

Except for the first year of her life, Robyn has lived in California. She started her young life in San Diego and has had gradually moved northward. She has been writing since she was in junior high school.

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The author currently lives with her husband in California near the “Gateway to Yosemite.” She is a member of Women Writing the West, American Night Writers Association, and Modesto Writers Meet Up. She currently lives with her husband in California near the “Gateway to Yosemite.” She enjoys any kind of history including family history. When she is not piecing together novel plots, she pieces together quilt blocks.

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Customers enjoy the book's story quality, with one review highlighting the sweet tale of a young widow. Moreover, the writing receives positive feedback for being well-crafted, and customers appreciate the variety of characters throughout the book.

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Customers enjoy the stories in the book, with one customer highlighting the sweet tale of a young widow and another noting the interesting factual history.

"...When I start to read one of Zina's wonderful stories, I know I will be lost in another time and place for many hours and feel contentment when I..." Read more

"This was a great story. Eustace is an upstanding gentleman. He is the perfect person to help and then love Lorena. Lorena had the worst luck...." Read more

"A very well written and unique story unfolds within this book. Many different characters to read about. Keeps you wanting to read even more." Read more

"Once again, Zina Abbott skillfully weaves into this book interesting factual history while telling the story of Lorena and Eustace...." Read more

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Customers find the book to be excellent reading and consider it a good second book in the series.

"I really enjoyed this book. I love that it referenced characters that had been introduced in a previous book...." Read more

"...I really enjoyed reading this. Lorena couldn't have asked for better friends or man. I adored Fancy." Read more

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  • Lori Dykes
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Journey to Happiness
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2020
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    A story of how hard life can be and the trials faced after the war for many. The opening pages just about broke my heart for Lorena and what she was pushed into by a terrible man.
    But her journey also has hope with a man, Eustace that has lost almost everything but finds a chance to begin anew with a chance with the Butterfield Overland Despatch stagecoach company.
    Both of these souls need each other. Eustace needs a wife to be able to run the station and Lorena needs rescuing from the terrible family of her late husband.
    Can these two come together and make a life? Another great story with historical detail showing the lives of those left after the war and the hardships they sometimes faced.
    When I start to read one of Zina's wonderful stories, I know I will be lost in another time and place for many hours and feel contentment when I turn the last page..
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  • 4theloveofmath
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well written
    Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2020
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    I really enjoyed this book. I love that it referenced characters that had been introduced in a previous book. It was lovely reading about what was happening behind the scenes of the first book
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  • Claire Brooks
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good second book
    Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2020
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    I wondered what Danny was talking about in the first book.

    I really enjoyed reading this. Lorena couldn't have asked for better friends or man. I adored Fancy.
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  • Sydnee Welker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Honorable gentlemen
    Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2020
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    This was a great story. Eustace is an upstanding gentleman. He is the perfect person to help and then love Lorena. Lorena had the worst luck. Yo loose her husband to the war then her father to his health was bad enough. But to also get put into the situation she did with her brother-in-law was just down right horrible. That time period was not a place for women at all.
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  • Tam
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Star Book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2020
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    A very well written and unique story unfolds within this book. Many different characters to read about. Keeps you wanting to read even more.
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  • Pamela Hastings
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reading!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2020
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    Once again, Zina Abbott skillfully weaves into this book interesting factual history while telling the story of Lorena and Eustace. Sweet tale of a young widow and soldier at the end of Civil War. Very interesting!
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  • Sandra
    3.0 out of 5 stars OK Western Romance
    Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2020
    This is an OK mail-order bride romance, with mostly likable characters, but I did have a few issues with it. It gets 2.5 stars from me, rounded up to 3 stars.

    First, it was just too short to have enough character development. I wanted more backstory on both Lorena and Eustace.

    I had trouble liking Eustace, especially at first. He was angry about how the Confederates lost the Civil War, and how his family home/livelihood was destroyed. While that is understandable, I never got the sense that he understood it was wrong for his family to own slaves -- it seemed he was perfectly OK with that, since it had helped his family for so long. I also had a problem with his willingness to pay for Lorena's "services", even though he already knew that she didn't want to do that kind of work. He did get a lot better as the story went on, and I loved that he saved her from that fate -- but I had a hard time forgetting his behavior from the first of the book.

    I liked Lorena, and thought what happened to her was really sad. I did think, though, that she needed to stand up for herself a little more. Seemed to me like she gave in to what happened to her a little too easily. I get that she was afraid for her family, but I still think she should have fought harder against the saloon owner's threats.

    This is a clean romance, with nothing but kisses. If you only want to read romances that do not include sex scenes, this one might work for you.

    My rating system is below.
    1 star -- Hated it, or did not finish. I usually only give this rating if some of the content is truly objectionable to me, like if one of the main characters does something really awful, and gets away with it.
    2 stars -- Didn't like it. This rating usually means that I thought the writing wasn't very good, the editing was terrible, I didn't like the characters, or it had other major flaws.
    3 stars -- I liked it, but had some minor issues with it. This rating means that there were minor editing issues, the story needed more character development, it was just too unrealistic, or had some other fairly minor issue. The majority of books I read get this rating – I do not consider it a bad rating.
    4 stars -- I liked it a lot. This is a high rating for me, and I rarely give a higher one.
    5 stars -- I loved it, and will probably read it again. Very few books are good enough to get this rating from me. The ones that do are usually classics.
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  • Hilary Simcox
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good book.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2020
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    This book was well written. I really enjoyed the inclusion of the historical facts at the end of the book. The author really put research to use in writing this historical fiction. Worth the read.
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