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Mail Order Blythe: Secret Baby Dilemma Book 8 by [Zina Abbott]

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Blythe Greenly works as a maid for the Stapletons, a prominent Chicago family until the oldest son returns home from the university and takes ungentlemanly notice of her. In spite of her attempts to avoid him, he manages to trap her. Because she knows her employer, who dotes on her son, will not support her cause against his best interests, she knows she has to get away.

Blythe answers a matrimonial advertisement and begins corresponding with several prospects who are willing to consider a widow. However, when she tells her first two choices she is carrying a child, they drop out. She keeps her baby a secret from her last hope for a husband, a U.S. Army sergeant stationed at Fort Fred Steele in Wyoming. Complications delay her marriage to a man who has other priorities than a loving companion who will give him a family.

Eli Morgan is a science instructor at the University of Iowa. His mother, who has been living with him, is intent on him responding to two letters from carefully-vetted women for Eli to consider so he might choose a wife suitable for a man in his position. However, as an amateur astronomer, he chooses to set matrimonial pursuits aside the summer of 1878 to spend his summer holiday with two fellow teachers traveling to Rawlins, Wyoming Territory. There they plan to view the total solar eclipse on July 29th. They will spend several weeks afterward exploring, hunting, and fishing.

However, Eli, who has never been a big fan of dust and dirt, keeps finding excuses to return to the hotel in Rawlins so he can take a bath and change into clean clothes. Or is it the pretty maid waiting for her soldier fiancé who draws him there?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08T1MD7D8
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 19, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 718 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 206 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #326,353 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #811 in American Historical Romance (Kindle Store)
- #4,209 in Victorian Historical Romance (Kindle Store)
- #5,260 in Victorian Historical Romance (Books)

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ZINA ABBOTT is the pen name used by Robyn Echols for her historical novels.

Except for the first year of her life, Robyn has lived in California. She started her young life in San Diego and has had gradually moved northward. She has been writing since she was in junior high school.

The author currently lives with her husband in California near the “Gateway to Yosemite.” She is a member of Women Writing the West, American Night Writers Association, and Modesto Writers Meet Up. She currently lives with her husband in California near the “Gateway to Yosemite.” She enjoys any kind of history including family history. When she is not piecing together novel plots, she pieces together quilt blocks.

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Yvonne Butler

Blythe and Baby

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2023

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Blythe becomes pregnant. This about
what happened. See how she deals with it. This is a very good story. Read it !

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Lori Dykes

An Eclipse of the Heart

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 22, 2021

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Rawlins, Wyoming Territory, July 1878.
An eclipse was due to happen July 29th, and Eli Morgan and two of his fellow teachers had travelled to Rawlins for the best viewing possible. Also to take some time to explore. What Eli did not know is that he might just have another eclipse.. that is of the heart most unexpectedly to a lovely woman he meets on the train there!

Blythe Greenly was desperate to find a way to support herself and soon to be child, that had been conceived when her employer's son had forced himself upon her. Her only option was becoming a mail order bride. Her answer seems to be a Sergeant at a Fort outside Rawlings, Wyoming.

It seems though that fate, or divine intervention has her getting on the same train as Eli, who is such a gentleman and they strike up a friendship. Could he be her answer if the Sargeant does not work out?

A wonderful story that pulled at my heartstrings as Zina brings history alive with Eli and Blythe trying to find their way to happiness.

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Deutsche OMA

Humor, heart break, and compassion

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 19, 2021

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As an avid reader and Midwesterner, I enjoyed the post Civil War setting - the Midwest in 1878. Blythe started her journey in the Windy City Chicago post the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Zina Abbott paints a vivid picture of a young single woman's options to happiness, train travel, and the "wild west." Enjoyed discovering a famous inventor of the time included in the story. Zina Abbott description of him is spot on. Plus reading how folks viewed an eclipse in 1878. The historical tidbits in Zina Abbott's stories have this avid reader wanting more. Believable characters, attention getting, page turning beginning, twist and turn plot with a satisfying resolution. A story of humor, heart break, compassion and concern. I could not put the book down.

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Paula

Sweet mail order bride story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2022

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I loved the bride in this book. Strong and determined to be all she could be. I choose the rating of 5 stars because the authors descpition of characters and the location describe in wyoming. The story line was one that women dealt with while working in wealthy homes in any position.

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Can she find the right man?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2021

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Blythe was attacked by her employer's son and is pregnant. She needs a husband. On her way to Rawlins in Wyoming she meets a professor going to see the eclipse with friends on their summer break. They fall in love but she has to do something about the military man she has promised to marry before she can think about Eli. The situations a nice girl can get herself into are too sad.

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Sheila Gravely

Another Win for Zina Abbott!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2021

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This story is a great story to go along with Figgy Pudding by Francine! I enjoyed getting to know the characters in this story and how the twists and turns turns out to be a great love story. The betrayal of one man leads to love for another. An incredible read for anyone who loves a good romance.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2021

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This was a good story and well written. It had some drama, fun, and excitement along with some history and romance.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2021