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Faith
Christian romance
Faith
Book 1 of the Brides of the West series
320 pages · First published 1998
Nineteen-year-old Faith and her sisters answer an advertisement seeking Christian women willing to become brides for men in Deliverance, Texas. Faith travels west expecting to marry wealthy rancher Nicholas Shepherd, only to discover that her strong will and his are almost perfectly matched. Repeated interruptions and postponements make the planned wedding increasingly uncertain even as genuine affection develops. Lori Copeland opens Brides of the West with humorous Christian historical romance built around a mail-order-bride arrangement and two stubborn people who must decide whether conflict means incompatibility or simply that neither has learned to bend.
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Mild romantic content, including kissing
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