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Overcoming Brides #1
Saving Hyacinth
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1895, Montana
They both want to forget timeworn betrayal.
They’re brought together through letters and a love of the land.
But their pasts—separate and shared—threaten to destroy their newfound love.
Son of a law-breaker, homesteader Ben Crenshaw swears he’ll forget all family ties and pursue a respectable way of life. He starts by marrying Hyacinth Payne, a girl from the east he courted by correspondence. On their wedding day, just as he thinks life couldn’t seem more promising, an old foe crosses his path and threatens the future he desires.
With the death of her aunt, schoolteacher Hyacinth Payne is alone in the world. After a year of writing Ben, she agrees to marry him, thinking she’s finally found what she longed for—a family and the chance to return to Montana. But upon arriving in Montana, she learns things about Ben that make her wonder if she made a mistake boarding the train headed west.
As Ben and Hyacinth struggle to make a face-to-face relationship work, secrets are revealed, and they realize they don’t know each other as well as they thought. Meanwhile, figures reappear and demand attention to a past they both wished forgotten. These adversaries are not easily sent away, and, if compelled to go, they just might take Ben and Hyacinth with them…to the grave.
A sweet/inspirational mail-order bride western romance
Stand alone. One couple finds their happily ever after.
No Cliffhangers!
1895, Montana
They both want to forget timeworn betrayal.
They’re brought together through letters and a love of the land.
But their pasts—separate and shared—threaten to destroy their newfound love.
Son of a law-breaker, homesteader Ben Crenshaw swears he’ll forget all family ties and pursue a respectable way of life. He starts by marrying Hyacinth Payne, a girl from the east he courted by correspondence. On their wedding day, just as he thinks life couldn’t seem more promising, an old foe crosses his path and threatens the future he desires.
With the death of her aunt, schoolteacher Hyacinth Payne is alone in the world. After a year of writing Ben, she agrees to marry him, thinking she’s finally found what she longed for—a family and the chance to return to Montana. But upon arriving in Montana, she learns things about Ben that make her wonder if she made a mistake boarding the train headed west.
As Ben and Hyacinth struggle to make a face-to-face relationship work, secrets are revealed, and they realize they don’t know each other as well as they thought. Meanwhile, figures reappear and demand attention to a past they both wished forgotten. These adversaries are not easily sent away, and, if compelled to go, they just might take Ben and Hyacinth with them…to the grave.
A sweet/inspirational mail-order bride western romance
Stand alone. One couple finds their happily ever after.
No Cliffhangers!
- GenresWesternsHistorical
115 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 17, 2015
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April Jensen
14 books7 followersApril Jensen is an author of Inspirational Historical Romance novels.
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REGENCY ROMANCE:
THE DENSFORD DAUGHTERS Series: The Densford daughters find love while their family faces financial ruin.
An Altered Situation (Book 1) Available
An Unsuitable Love(Book 2) Available
A Remarkable Ball (Book 3) Available
WESTERN ROMANCE:
OVERCOMING BRIDES Series: Women head west to Montana for new lives as mail-order brides.
Saving Hyacinth (Book 1) Available
Restoring Beth (Book 2) Available
Rescuing Cassie (Book 3) Available
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August 30, 2022
I read Saving Hyacinth ~ Overcoming Brides ~ Book 1 on my Mother's Kindle.
I enjoy second chance romances that start when a couple is very young; don't manage to stay together and meet years later to find the spark still bright and glowing in their relationship. Ben and Hyacinth knew each other as children and neither forgot the other. Ben writes for a mail order bride and they soon recognize each other after Ben is shot and they realize their previous connection and how much shared history their families have in common.
I enjoy second chance romances that start when a couple is very young; don't manage to stay together and meet years later to find the spark still bright and glowing in their relationship. Ben and Hyacinth knew each other as children and neither forgot the other. Ben writes for a mail order bride and they soon recognize each other after Ben is shot and they realize their previous connection and how much shared history their families have in common.
April 1, 2019
In truth, I would give this book a 3.7 if the rating system permitted it.
The book is a short 17 chapters + an epilogue. I am not exactly certain from where the title comes, because Ben does not save Hyacinth, which is what the title implies.
Ben and Hyacinth make a cute couple, but the "I love yous" got old after awhile. Moreover, I could not quite understand why Hyacinth did not trust Ben. He was her childhood sweetheart, and, although he had not told her about his checkered past in the letters they exchanged, neither did she tell him about her mother's betrayal, etc. It seemed to me they were even.
The book could use a better editor. There were typos, grammatical errors, and names/facts switched that drew me out of the story. For example...
1. Why does the doctor and Mrs. Adkins put a shirt on a man who just had a bullet removed from his shoulder? When Hyacinth reaches the room where the doctor is working on Ben, she states he has no shirt and the top of his pants are covered in blood. When she returns later to tend him, Ben is wearing a shirt — a shirt he cannot get in or out of easy so someone can change his wound's dressing.
2. Murphy is spelled both "Murphy" and "Murphey."
3. When Ben is shot, he says One Shot Ted has a gun on him and shoots him in the chest. Later, when Ted breaks into Ben's room and has a gun on him again, Ted says it was Hal who shot Ben.
4. There were usage errors such as "face to face" (face-to-face); reimbursed MR. Adkins and HER husband (Mrs.); THERE not true (they're); She was her, he was him (after any part of the verb "to be," one should use a pronoun in the nominative case, not the objective case - correct form would be "she was she, he was he"); on who she could (on is a preposition; prepositions take the objective pronoun - correct form would be "on whom she could"); I and Lionel paid (should be Lionel and I paid - put the other person first); he's laying low (the correct form is "lying low" - it is an idiom, meaning to wait in ambush), etc.
5. There are lots of split infinitives: to not move, to fully comprehend, to ever draw, to not apologize, etc.
The book is a short 17 chapters + an epilogue. I am not exactly certain from where the title comes, because Ben does not save Hyacinth, which is what the title implies.
Ben and Hyacinth make a cute couple, but the "I love yous" got old after awhile. Moreover, I could not quite understand why Hyacinth did not trust Ben. He was her childhood sweetheart, and, although he had not told her about his checkered past in the letters they exchanged, neither did she tell him about her mother's betrayal, etc. It seemed to me they were even.
The book could use a better editor. There were typos, grammatical errors, and names/facts switched that drew me out of the story. For example...
1. Why does the doctor and Mrs. Adkins put a shirt on a man who just had a bullet removed from his shoulder? When Hyacinth reaches the room where the doctor is working on Ben, she states he has no shirt and the top of his pants are covered in blood. When she returns later to tend him, Ben is wearing a shirt — a shirt he cannot get in or out of easy so someone can change his wound's dressing.
2. Murphy is spelled both "Murphy" and "Murphey."
3. When Ben is shot, he says One Shot Ted has a gun on him and shoots him in the chest. Later, when Ted breaks into Ben's room and has a gun on him again, Ted says it was Hal who shot Ben.
4. There were usage errors such as "face to face" (face-to-face); reimbursed MR. Adkins and HER husband (Mrs.); THERE not true (they're); She was her, he was him (after any part of the verb "to be," one should use a pronoun in the nominative case, not the objective case - correct form would be "she was she, he was he"); on who she could (on is a preposition; prepositions take the objective pronoun - correct form would be "on whom she could"); I and Lionel paid (should be Lionel and I paid - put the other person first); he's laying low (the correct form is "lying low" - it is an idiom, meaning to wait in ambush), etc.
5. There are lots of split infinitives: to not move, to fully comprehend, to ever draw, to not apologize, etc.
May 22, 2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this mail order bride romance. The chemistry was great! The romance was splendid. I really did enjoy this book.
Ben and Hyacinth were childhood best friends who came back together through fate alone when she answered his order for a mail order bride. The suspense was done perfectly, and I loved how much they cared for each other.
This could have definitely been a solid 5 star read had this book been proofread. But if you're like me and can look over some mistakes, this is a really good book and definitely worth the read.
I thoroughly enjoyed this mail order bride romance. The chemistry was great! The romance was splendid. I really did enjoy this book.
Ben and Hyacinth were childhood best friends who came back together through fate alone when she answered his order for a mail order bride. The suspense was done perfectly, and I loved how much they cared for each other.
This could have definitely been a solid 5 star read had this book been proofread. But if you're like me and can look over some mistakes, this is a really good book and definitely worth the read.
October 25, 2021
Childhood Memories
When Ben said bye to his childhood friend Claire he didn't think he would be happy again.
Now all grown he sent for a mail order bride and their marriage begins with bang neither could of expected.
When Ben said bye to his childhood friend Claire he didn't think he would be happy again.
Now all grown he sent for a mail order bride and their marriage begins with bang neither could of expected.
August 15, 2022
Clean christian historical novel
I enjoyed the characters ..
Historical parts were great.no sexual contact,thank you and no
Cussing. I recommend the book and the author. the Lord. Was
Interjected into. Story. 😊
I enjoyed the characters ..
Historical parts were great.no sexual contact,thank you and no
Cussing. I recommend the book and the author. the Lord. Was
Interjected into. Story. 😊
October 11, 2019
Good
This book is one in which a mail order bride come back to the place in Montana where she has lived as a child.
This book is one in which a mail order bride come back to the place in Montana where she has lived as a child.
August 20, 2021
Sweet story
Nice relaxing reading. Read it in a few hours. If you like morally clean westerns, give this a try. That is all
Nice relaxing reading. Read it in a few hours. If you like morally clean westerns, give this a try. That is all
May 12, 2016
This is a very clean love story. Engaging with a slight hint of suspense. There is lots of dialogue between hero and heroine which was just a little slow for me but didn't really detract from the overall good read. Highly recommend.
June 1, 2016
Quick easy read. Lot of drama for such a short book.
I like how the author wrapped things up in the epilogue.
I like how the author wrapped things up in the epilogue.
October 6, 2016
Very Enjoyable Read!
Hyacinth and Ben were just the sweetest couple. When it rains, it pours - their relationship overcame the many storms. I do recommend this book.
Hyacinth and Ben were just the sweetest couple. When it rains, it pours - their relationship overcame the many storms. I do recommend this book.
July 31, 2023
Enjoyed this Western romance novella.
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