He also agrees to see the governor of the colony about her claim to be an Earl’s daughter. She can’t cook, can’t clean, and she has a terrible temper, but Drew asks her to care of his little sister and tend the garden. During a game of cards with Gerald and Emmett, Drew wins Emmitt’s bride Constance, who turns out to be no bargain. Although Drew doesn’t want a wife – he is still mourning his betrothed, who died of a fever – he does need a maid to help with the chores and some men to work the farm, so when the ship docks Drew buys ten men and a woman named Mary Robins. The price of a wife is 120 pounds of tobacco.ĭrew O’Connor and his brother Josh own a tobacco farm and work hard to improve it. The men in the Virginia Colonies need wives, and part of this ship’s cargo is women who will be brides for the colonists.
Then the captain appears and Constance is taken away to join the other women aboard the ship. He tries to warn her she is in danger, but in true feisty heroine fashion she refuses to believe him. In true feisty heroine fashion, Lady Constance Morrow goes alone to the ship where her Uncle Skelly is being held prisoner prior to being transported to Virginia. It’s set in the Virginia Colony in 1643 and tells the tale of a gently born woman kidnapped to be sold to a colonist as his wife Readers who are getting tired of the ubiquitous history lite Regency-set historical romance will want to read Deeanne Gist’s A Bride Most Begrudging.
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