Read Genevieve: Bride of Nevada (American Mail-Order Bride 36) Online

Authors: Cynthia Woolf

Tags: #Historical, #Romance, #Fiction, #Forever Love, #Victorian Era, #Western, #Thirty-Six In Series, #Saga, #Fifty-Books, #Forty-Five Authors, #Newspaper Ad, #Short Story, #American Mail-Order Bride, #Bachelor, #Single Woman, #Marriage Of Convenience, #Christian, #Religious, #Faith, #Inspirational, #Factory Burned, #Pioneer, #Nevada, #Elko, #Train West, #Opportunity, #Two-Year-Old, #New Baby, #Common Ground, #Ruby Mountains, #Deceased Wife, #Child-Birth, #Family Life

Genevieve: Bride of Nevada (American Mail-Order Bride 36) (16 page)

BOOK: Genevieve: Bride of Nevada (American Mail-Order Bride 36)
11.11Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

“He’s little,” observed the child.

“Yes, he is for right now, but he’ll grow really fast. In a couple of years he’ll be able to play with you.”

Joe walked over to the bed and gave Genny a kiss on the forehead. “You did great.” Then he turned to the kids. “Who wants milk and cookies?”

“Me.” The kids said together, their attention taken away from the babies at the thought of a treat.

The two little ones ran out and thundered down the stairs.

Nettie came over to join them around the bed.

“Now Joe, you follow those children before they get it in their heads to help themselves and make a mess.”

“Yes, ma’am.” He walked to the door turned and smiled at Genny and Stuart. “You both did real good.” Joe walked out, whistling.

Nettie followed right behind the others.

Stuart closed the door behind her. Now it was just him, Genny and their babies.

Genny opened her nightgown and encouraged Catherine to latch on to her nipple. The baby took some convincing but eventually did and Genny gasped.

“Hurts?”

“It’s all right, I’m just a little tender. Nettie said my body will get used to them suckling and having them nurse won’t be painful.”

He opened the blanket covering his new son. The baby had black hair like his sister and mother, and blue eyes. All his fingers and all his toes. Stuart put his finger in the baby’s hand and the little one’s fingers curled around his father’s.

Stuart was smitten. Both these children were special conceived in love probably on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day the year before.

Smiling he looked down at his lovely wife. “Thank you for making me see what could be and giving me these children. I love you.”

She raised her gaze from her daughter to him. “I love you, too.”

*****

September 23, 1891

Dear Katie and Julia,

I’m so happy and tired and sore. I gave birth a few hours ago to twin babies. We named them Catherine and Douglas. They are beautiful with my black hair and Stuart’s blue eyes. I’m afraid when they grow up that the young men and women of Elko had better watch out. They are adorable babies and I say so even though I’m their mother.

The rest of the family have all come in to see the babies. Stuart can’t help but show them off. He’s such a proud papa.

Lucy and Billy are enamored of them right now. That will change when Catherine and Douglas get older and start deciding that everything belongs to them. I fully expect there to be fights over toys and such. When I was in the orphanage I always saw small fights over the toys, though that was because there weren’t enough to go around.

I intend to make sure my children don’t want for anything. They’ll probably be spoiled rotten, all four of them and the rest to come as well. I intend to have more children. The more the merrier. As many as the good Lord sees fit to bless us with.

My love to you both,

Genny, Stuart, and the kids, Billy, Lucy, Catherine and Douglas

ABOUT THE SERIES

Genevieve, Bride of Nevada
, is book number thirty-six in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides Series. There are forty-five authors involved in this project. I hope you will pick up each book and enjoy.

If you enjoyed reading this book there are 49 more in the series! Find out about the rest of the American Mail-Order Brides here,
http://www.newwesternromance.com

Enjoy the stories of Genevieve’s two roommates:

KATIE

Bride of Virginia

by Sylvia McDaniel

A disastrous factory fire ends Katie Maverick’s livelihood and she must find something quick. Convinced to become a mail-order bride, she receives an offer of marriage from Daniel O’Malley.

Only Daniel isn’t the one who put the ad in the Grooms’ Gazette. His business partner, secretly placed the ad in Daniel's name. When Katie arrives, a surprised Daniel agrees to marry her with the idea she could help make his life easier and still the gossip surrounding the death of his wife.

He’s unprepared for the way the bubbly girl from Massachusetts eases his loneliness. Not only is she helpful, she’s breaking through the walls he’s erected around his heart. Troubled by the suspicious vandalizing suddenly occurring in the vineyard, Daniel wonders if things might not be as good as they seem. Is it only coincidental that the damage to his winery coincides with Katie’s arrival?

Could this sweet, innocent woman and his dead wife share a common goal to destroy him?

____________

JULIA

Bride of New York

by Callie Hutton

Sheriff Fletcher Adams has no intention of taking a wife, but when mail order bride Julia Benson is stranded at the train station after her intended husband rejects her, it starts to seem like a good idea.

Too bad she doesn’t agree.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cynthia Woolf
is the award winning and best-selling author of seventeen historical western romance books and two short stories with more books on the way. She was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in the mountains west of Golden. She spent her early years running wild around the mountain side with her friends.

Their closest neighbor was about one quarter of a mile away, so her little brother was her playmate and her best friend. That fierce friendship lasted until his death in 2006.

Cynthia was and is an avid reader. Her mother was a librarian and brought new books home each week. This is where young Cynthia first got the storytelling bug. She wrote her first story at the age of ten. A romance about a little boy she liked at the time.

Cynthia loves writing and reading romance. Her first western romance
Tame A Wild Heart
, was inspired by the story her mother told her of meeting Cynthia’s father on a ranch in Creede, Colorado. Although
Tame A Wild Heart
takes place in Creede that is the only similarity between the stories. Her father was a cowboy not a bounty hunter and her mother was a nursemaid (called a nanny now) not the ranch owner.

Cynthia credits her wonderfully supportive husband Jim and the great friends she’s made at CRW for saving her sanity and allowing her to explore her creativity.

TITLES BY CYNTHIA WOOLF

GIDEON

The Surprise Brides

MAIL ORDER OUTLAW

The Brides of Tombstone 1

MAIL ORDER DOCTOR

The Brides of Tombstone 2

MAIL ORDER BARON

The Brides of Tombstone 3

NELLIE

The Brides of San Francisco 1

ANNIE

The Brides of San Francisco 2

CORA

The Brides of San Francisco 3

JAKE

Destiny in Deadwood 1

LIAM

Destiny in Deadwood 2

ZACH

Destiny in Deadwood 3

CAPITAL BRIDE

Matchmaker & Co. 1

HEIRESS BRIDE

Matchmaker & Co. 2

FIERY BRIDE

Matchmaker & Co. 3

TAME A WILD HEART

Tame 1

TAME A WILD WIND

Tame 2

TAME A WILD BRIDE

Tame 3

TAME A SUMMER HEART

Tame short story

TAME A HONEYMOON HEART

Tame novella

WEBSITE –
www.cynthiawoolf.com

NEWSLETTER –
http://bit.ly/1qBWhFQ

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Epilogue

About the Series

About the Author

Titles by Cynthia Woolf

BOOK: Genevieve: Bride of Nevada (American Mail-Order Bride 36)
11.11Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Other books

Desafío by Alyson Noel
The Life Beyond by Susanne Winnacker
Wasted by Suzannah Daniels
The White Angel Murder by Victor Methos
Ramon by Lexi Buchanan
The Rivals by Daisy Whitney
To Desire a Wilde by Kimberly Kaye Terry
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great by Catherine the Great