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A Most Inconvenient Marriage
Christian fiction
A Most Inconvenient Marriage
Book 1 of the Ozark Mountain Romance series
330 pages · First published 2014
Nurse Abigail Stuart believes dying soldier Jeremiah Calhoun has made her a practical offer: marry him so she can claim the protection of his Missouri farm after the Civil War. When Abigail reaches the Calhoun home as his supposed widow, she is stunned when Jeremiah returns very much alive and equally surprised to discover he apparently has a wife. Family members have their own reasons for distrusting Abigail, while both she and Jeremiah must untangle what was actually promised. Regina Jennings combines marriage-of-convenience complications, postwar farm life, faith, humor, and romance in a story where the most inconvenient part of the marriage is the living husband.
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Wartime/battle violence and peril · Death, grief, and loss
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