A Bride in the Bargain
This inspiring romance by Christy Award winner Deeanne Gist sets a spirited gal and an enterprising lumberjack on a collision course in 1866 Washington Territory. Set to lose half his timberland unless he finds a wife soon, widower Joe Denton places an order for a bride who can cook. When she arrives, the bonnie lass certainly cooks up a storm-but she knows nothing about marrying Joe. "A keeper!"-Romantic Times, a Top Pick review
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A Bride in the Bargain
This inspiring romance by Christy Award winner Deeanne Gist sets a spirited gal and an enterprising lumberjack on a collision course in 1866 Washington Territory. Set to lose half his timberland unless he finds a wife soon, widower Joe Denton places an order for a bride who can cook. When she arrives, the bonnie lass certainly cooks up a storm-but she knows nothing about marrying Joe. "A keeper!"-Romantic Times, a Top Pick review
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A Bride in the Bargain

A Bride in the Bargain

by Deeanne Gist

Narrated by Linda Stephens

Unabridged — 11 hours, 38 minutes

A Bride in the Bargain

A Bride in the Bargain

by Deeanne Gist

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This inspiring romance by Christy Award winner Deeanne Gist sets a spirited gal and an enterprising lumberjack on a collision course in 1866 Washington Territory. Set to lose half his timberland unless he finds a wife soon, widower Joe Denton places an order for a bride who can cook. When she arrives, the bonnie lass certainly cooks up a storm-but she knows nothing about marrying Joe. "A keeper!"-Romantic Times, a Top Pick review

Editorial Reviews

In Civil War–era Seattle, a married man can acquire 640 acres of virgin timberland. Unfortunately for lumberjack Joe Denton, his wife has just died. It doesn't take him long, however, to hit on a plan that satisfies his two big needs: he will buy one of the women arriving from the East, marry her in name only, and keep her around as a full-time cook and housekeeper. What he doesn't bargain for is that his prospective bride turns out to be Anna Ivey, a feisty young woman who really doesn't want to tie the knot with this very presumptuous stranger. A faith-based romance by the author of Deep in the Heart of Trouble and Courting Trouble.

Publishers Weekly

Popular evangelical Christian novelist Gist tells a could-have-happened tale of a Seattle landowner who requires a wife to keep his 640 acres. In the land replete with timber but few women, widower Joe Denton signs a contract with Asa Mercer to deliver the wife he needs to ensure his land rights. Unfortunately, 19-year-old Anna Ivey doesn't realize she's signed on for marriage; she only wants passage out West and a job. Sparks fly as tempers flare when Joe and Anna discover they are at cross-purposes. Acquiescing to common sense as well as a sense of desperation, the two agree to work together temporarily. As Anna cooks up a storm in payment for the traveling debt Joe incurred on her behalf, Joe cooks up his own scheme for wooing Anna into marriage. Gist's work is comical, sassy and sweet-yet her story's ending ties together a bit too neatly for readers who relish real-life finales. (June)

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Product Details

BN ID: 2940169389401
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date: 12/04/2009
Edition description: Unabridged
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