Beloved Wife

BELOVED WIFE is a most excellent twist to the mail-order-bride stories.Amity Becker travels west to Texas as a mail-order bride under the assumption that she is pregnant.Clay Morgan has searched for a bride to thwart his sister-in-law and provide a mother for his children. Amity expects to mother his two daughters, Laura and Rosemary then another shows up - Jamima, well what is one more ?? and Kate ?? and one is missing?? Wow - the olderst is Hallie 13, visiting with her aunt.What a shock to the girls. Their father is married? Well, that is too bad - they won't have it. Amity has to go. And of course this leads to a bit of trouble. Aided and abetted by Aunt Gretchen.Apparently Gretchen Harris lusted after Clay Morgan even while he was still married to her sister, Elsa. She was determined to become his wife.Amity found a friend in Clay's neighbor, Fiona and Sean O'Flannery. The O'Flannerys had five sons and one daughter and Fiona was pregnant at the time Amity meets them.Clay and Amity help the O'Flannerys when lightning strikes their barn and again when Fiona has her baby.There are more hi-jinks perpetrated against Amity with the towns-folks by Gretchen and Hallie that makes this story one you will probably want to read again.These are just the high lights -- certainly more happened that I have jotted down - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- thoroughly captivating and definitely hard to put down -- great ending.