Anna's Choice
By Ann Laurel
3/5
()
About this ebook
When Anna forsook her parents' arranged marriage to Franklin and instead answered a mail order bride ad, she fell in love through the letters with Timothy. While her mother planned a wedding for Anna and Franklin, the young lady prepared to run away at the last minute to meet with the man she was going to marry. Follow her risky journey as she chooses to follow her heart instead of following her parents' wishes.
Ann Laurel
Ann loves to write inspirational sweet romances. Her first series, The Cattlemen's Wives, are western historical mail-order brides. All of her books are guaranteed to make you feel good when you reach the end.Ann lives with her husband and children in the beautiful Ozark Mountains in the south. She enjoys raising Godly children, volunteering with her church, homemaking, and writing.
Read more from Ann Laurel
The Rescued Bride Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Judith Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pregnant Mail Order Brides Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fern Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Widowed Bride Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rosalie Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bear Hunter's Bride Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Orphaned Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hannah Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jasper's Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Audrey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rachel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry's Bride Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gena Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Marrying Kind: Mail Order Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Helena Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cattlemen's Wives Mail Order Brides Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mail Order Brides of Jasper Falls Ranch Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5AJ's Bride Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Irish Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rose Creek Ranch Mail Order Brides Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dirk's Bride Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Priceless: Love's True Worth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Anna's Choice
Related ebooks
Fern Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Home for Hannah Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bear Hunter's Bride Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Shepherd's Bride Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTheir Pretend Amish Courtship Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Amish Innkeeper's Secret Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHannah Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Unexpected Amish Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Christmas Quilt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRachel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Hope Springs Christmas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Hope Springs Christmas and Amish Christmas Abduction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDear Otto Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Orphaned Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jasper's Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Someone to Trust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Doctor's Blessing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Arranger (Amish Country Brides) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Christmas Amish Courtship Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLast Stop For Sin: Gold Dust Brides, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Forbidden Amish Courtship Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHis New Amish Family Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHealing Hearts: Amish Second Chance Romance, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mail Order Bride Audrey: Brides of Montana, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Haven for Christmas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmish Love Saves All: Peace Valley Amish Series, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Amish Family Christmas and Amish Triplets for Christmas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMail Order Bride: Summer: Brides For All Seasons, #2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rose's Mail Order Brides And Grooms: Western Prairie Brides, #5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Widower's Amish Courtship Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Christian Fiction For You
The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Nefarious Plot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Jane Austen MEGAPACK ™: All Her Classic Works Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Stranger in the Lifeboat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Redeeming Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perelandra: (Space Trilogy, Book Two) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Present Darkness: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Piercing the Darkness: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Someone Like You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Affair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hinds' Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Lineage of Grace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower: And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eve: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pilgrim’s Progress: Updated, Modern English. More than 100 Illustrations. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fifth Mountain: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bridge to Haven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pilgrim’s Progress (Parts 1 & 2): Updated, Modern English. More than 100 Illustrations. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Beast as Dark as Night: The Winter Souls Series, #4 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The List Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Illusion: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Harbinger II: The Return Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5War Room: Prayer Is a Powerful Weapon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Teacher's Guide for a Prayer for Owen Meany: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Anna's Choice
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
Anna's Choice - Ann Laurel
Anna’s Choice (Mail Order Bride) by Ann Laurel
Copyright © 2017 by Ann Laurel. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ann Laurel. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher/author.
Disclaimer
This is a work of fiction. Therefore, all characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance whatsoever to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Smashwords Edition
License
This ebook is written for your enjoyment. You may not re-sell this book nor give it away. If you wish to share this book I ask that you please purchase a copy and share it that way. If you obtained a copy of this book without purchasing it please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author of this creation.
Chapter One
Anna sprinted up the road, looking back to make sure her parents couldn’t see her; and after turning the corner on the dusty street slowed to a fast walk. Once at the post office, Anna handed a letter to the postmaster along with the coin to cover the postmark. The letter had a special destination in the west and to the hands of the man she loved.
Anna quickly made her way back to the wagon and waited for her parents at the market. If her parents ever found out about the letters they would be so disappointed. She didn’t doubt they might lock her away and never allow her to come to town with them again. What Anna had done went against everything they believed in and would be unacceptable to them. Anna rushed forward to help her mother stop the turnips from falling out of the cart.
Where have you been?
Mother asked as she shoved the lid back onto the basket.
Oh, I thought I would run downtown to see if we had any mail at the post office.
Anna had to think on the fly for an excuse since her mother had noticed her gone.
Mother turned away, satisfied with the answer. Anna didn't let on that she was involved in a secret love affair by letter with a man she had never met. Her parents thought a mail-order bride was a thing of the past. They didn’t realize that Anna had fallen in love with a man who lived far away in a place she had only dreamed she could go.
When Anna had turned sixteen more than a year ago, she received a Tennessee periodical and found the mail-order bride advertisements in the back. One particular ad from a ranch hand in Colorado had caught her eye. He had stated in the advertisement that he was in search of a wife. Anna learned through his few written words in the paper that Timothy Dalton had a busy life and no time to court a future wife. After reading the entirety of what he had written, Anna knew she had to send a letter.
Timothy wrote back almost immediately and spoke about wanting to find a good Christian woman to become his wife once he completed his job contract with the ranch owner who employed him. He would receive a parcel of land as a part of his pay at the end of the contract, which sounded beautiful to Anna.
Before she could share the news with her parents about the mail-order bride advertisement and Timothy, they had told her about a man they knew from the swamps in the south. When they had gone on and on about this Peter and how he’d make a good husband, she decided to keep her correspondence with Timothy a secret. Anna felt they would never understand her desire to go west and start a new life with a strange man whom she had never met.
At first, Anna struggled with the thought of whether she had in fact fallen in love with Timothy or had instead fallen for the idea of escaping Tennessee to head to the mountains in the west. After some time of exchanging letters with the stranger from the advertisements, Anna had come to conclude that she was more in love with Timothy, though the idea of leaving heading west also intrigued her.
Peter came around for visits by her parents’ invitation to court Anna. She had to suffer through these times while dreaming about Timothy. To keep peace in the home, she went along with her parents’ plans for her to marry Peter and had come to accept that her parents would never understand her real feelings.
Anna recalled how she had felt when she came home with the periodical and scribbled her first letter to Timothy on a piece of parchment paper she had found in her mother’s desk. After addressing the letter to Timothy at the Sunnyvale Canyon Ranch in Colorado, she ran all the way to the post office the next day and mailed it. Three weeks later, Anna received Timothy’s reply and he appeared