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Mail Order Penelope Kindle Edition

by Zina Abbott (Author), V. McKevitt (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
After she loses the love of her life, can she find love in the man she finds?

Penelope Newton Humphry lost her husband to the war as surely as if he died in combat. Her sweetheart since her early teens, she waited until the war ended to marry Jeremy, only to realize he never fully returned. Dying from pneumonia, he leaves Penelope with nothing but his unborn child. Penelope knows she must remarry—and soon. She accepts the offer of marriage from a man living near Fort Wallace she met through correspondence. Only, during the stagecoach ride to western Kansas, she discovers matters are not as she was led to believe.

As a regimental field surgeon, widower Dr. Marcus Garrett saw enough mangled bodies during his four years in the American Civil War to give him a lifetime of nightmares. Only his responsibility for his thirteen-year-old son, Theo, being raised by his older sister, keeps him going. In a moment of weakness, he reenlists to serve as a post surgeon. Currently stationed in Fort Larned in Kansas, he knows to be assigned officers' quarters so he can be reunited with Theo, he needs a wife—someone willing love a boy whose father is a stranger to him. Traveling in tandem with the stagecoach for protection along the Smoky Hill Trail to Fort Monument to care for soldiers wounded in a confrontation with Cheyenne warriors, the last thing he expected to encounter was a young widow with a fourteen-month-old child headed the same direction.

In exchange for a family for her and baby Jeremy, can Penelope learn to love a man who must first find peace within before he rebuilds a relationship with his son?

Please look for my other two books in the Widows, Brides & Secret Babies series, Mail Order Roslyn and Mail Order Lorena. 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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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B088WD5KTL
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (August 14, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 14, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.1 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 222 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 find the book readable and enjoy the series, with one describing it as imaginative.

"A wonderful addition to this imaginative series by the fabulous Zina Abbott, who takes us into history with her in depth research and knowledge...." Read more

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"Truly an amazing and very well written story unfolds within this book. I highly recommend reading this book in the order of the series." Read more

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"Truly an amazing and very well written story unfolds within this book. I highly recommend reading this book in the order of the series." Read more

"This is a wonderful story full of courage, hope, and love! She was brave and full of energy to do what needed to be done." Read more

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Customers find the book well researched and interesting, with one customer particularly noting the fascinating details about the training of the doctors.

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  • Lori Dykes
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Story!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2020
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    A wonderful addition to this imaginative series by the fabulous Zina Abbott, who takes us into history with her in depth research and knowledge.
    A young widow with a baby is traveling to meet her future husband as a mail order bride. Riding on a stagecoach with several men to protect the stage and an army surgeon brings them into danger and tension.
    Marcus a former army surgeon is headed to Fort Larned to become the post surgeon. Marcus has his own challenges, with the horrors of the war and now having to raise a teenage son on his own, he knows he needs a wife.
    As always Zina creates a story of a journey of the heart that has many challenges but the journey is rewarded with a forever love...
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  • Hilary Simcox
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020
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    I always enjoy Zina Abbott's contributions to the Widows, Brides & Secret Babies series. I enjoy how all her books tie together and learning about the history of the stage lines. It is really interesting. A great read!
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  • Claire Brooks
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
    Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020
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    I liked how Marcus used the new medical techniques for cleaning. They are SO important!

    I wonder how many women were duped into slavery, basically, by mail order bride requests.
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  • Tam
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020
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    Truly an amazing and very well written story unfolds within this book. I highly recommend reading this book in the order of the series.
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  • Sandra
    3.0 out of 5 stars OK Mail-Order Bride Romance
    Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 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 Penelope and Marcus.

    Marcus was hard to like at first. He was so determined to convince Penelope to go back East where there was less danger, and he never even once considered that it was none of his business. He did get better, once he realized she no longer had a home in the East, but he still treated her as if he expected to be obeyed.

    Penelope was OK, too, but I had trouble with her constant need to be "respectable", and her worry over small things that her mother said ladies did not do. I get that she was raised that way, but her attitude was extreme to the point of irritating. A woman traveling alone with her son would have had to be willing to give up some of the restrictions of respectability.

    Marcus and Penelope were fine, once they got together, but I had trouble believing they were in love. He wanted someone to help him with his son, and she needed a husband.

    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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  • mamaj1949
    5.0 out of 5 stars Historical!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2020
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    So very interesting the training of the doctors and nurses of that time. How they used their natural gifts to pick up what they needed to learn. Love this series!!!
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  • Ronda Clark
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great story!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2020
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    This is a wonderful story full of courage, hope, and love! She was brave and full of energy to do what needed to be done.
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  • Grammie of 12
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well Researched
    Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2020
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    Not only was this a really good fictional historical romance it was so well researched and I loved the use of actual historical figures.
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