When her father, the town minister, found out she was expecting a child, he offered her hand in marriage to the meanest man in town.

A treacherous man promised her the world, took her virginity, and left her without a father for her unborn child. His new wife lied to him…about everything. But Gideon is in danger of losing his heart until he discovers the truth. When his mother’s devious matchmaking results in his unexpected wedding, Gideon looks at the beautiful face of the woman who has sworn to be his and wants nothing to do with her. No, he’s been burned before, by greedy women who only want the prestige and money the Fraser family name can provide. Meet Jamie, Caleb, Gideon and Ethan.Īs the local preacher, Gideon Fraser often talks about the many virtues of a good marriage, but that doesn’t mean he has the slightest inclination of claiming a bride of his own. The Surprise Brides: One determined mama, four reluctant brothers, four mail order brides. It was a great experience but also the hardest book I’ve ever written. That being said, I don’t think I’ll do one again. You couldn’t ask for a better group of women to do a series like this with. Still making sure that the same things affecting the town all happen in each story was not easy. From there each book and each couple took off on their own, with only a bit of overlap. My hero is Gideon and he is the preacher for Angel Springs, Colorado and could perform the ceremony. A marriage minded, grandchild wanting, mama orders “surprise brides” for her four sons.Ī blizzard causes the ranch they are on to be cut off from the town for a week and marriages must ensue for the sake of the girls’ reputations and their mother’s as well.

Ideas flew around the room, good ideas, but we settled on one we thought would be fun. When the three of them were at RWA this summer, we held a Skype meeting with me. Next we had to figure out a way to plot the overall arc of the series. We invited Caroline Clemmons and Callie Hutton, both wonderful western writers, to join us in our endeavor. We knew we wanted four books in the series and we wanted it to be about mail order brides. Last February, at something called an uncon, I got together with Sylvia McDaniel and we decided to write a series of books together. Welcome Cynthia Woolf, our first blogger to tell us about Gideon, one of the brothers in the new Surprise Brides Series!

Tame a Honeymoon Heart by Cynthia Woolf