Deeply Devoted ( Blue Willow Brides the Blue Willow Brides #1 )
Contributor(s): Brendan, Maggie (Author)
ISBN-13: 9780800734626

A mail-order bride comes to the American West with hopes of a good life and a fresh start in this gentle prairie romance.

Jacket Description/Back:

She is staking her future on a man she's never met. Can she learn to love him?
When Catharine Olsen leaves Holland for Wyoming as a mail-order bride, she brings some extra baggage with her: two sisters, her mother's set of Blue Willow china, and a tragic past. As she steps off the train, Peter Andersen is glad to see that she is everything her letters showed her to be. But he is a bit perturbed by her unexpected companions. How will he support them all? And what other secrets might Catharine be keeping from him?
Filled with sweet romance and vivid characters, "Deeply Devoted" highlights a clash of cultures as a highborn European and a simple wheat farmer learn to love one another and trust God with the past--and the future.

"Maggie Brendan has done it again. As gentle as a prairie breeze and as delicate as the Blue Willow china for which the series is named, "Deeply Devoted" is a tender and haunting tale that stirs heart and soul deeply--well beyond the last page."--Julie Lessman, author of the Daughters of Boston series and the Winds of Change series

Maggie Brendan is the author of "No Place for a Lady," "The Jewel of His Heart, " and "A Love of Her Own." A member of the American Fiction Writers Association, Romance Writers of America, and Georgia Romance Writers, Maggie lives in Georgia. Visit her at www.MaggieBrendan.com.

Publisher Marketing:
When Catharine Olsen leaves Holland for America as a mail-order bride, she brings along some extra baggage: two sisters, her mother's set of Blue Willow china, and a tragic past. When she arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she promptly marries Peter Andersen and dreams of starting life over in this rugged land. Peter is kind and patient with Catharine and accommodating to her sisters. His mother, however, is not. When she begins a campaign to sabotage Peter's marriage, Catharine is distraught, worried that her secret past will be discovered. Will her life end up as nothing but broken pieces? Or will these trials make her stronger?
Readers will love negotiating the clash of cultures and class as a highborn European and a Western wheat farmer learn to love one another and trust God with both the past and the future.