Coral

Come By Chance Mail Order Brides #8

by Juliet James

Coral Mellors has a darling three-year-old son, a dead husband, and no place to live. Her husband was a no-good, wife-beating horse-thief, and Coral is terrified her dear Willie will turn out the same. She decides she must marry the quietest man she can find, and keep her son away from horses and wild men, no matter what it takes.She hears of a man in search of a wife -- a gentle Come-By-Chance farmer who creates beautiful leatherwork and grows things, and decides she will travel there to marry him.           .But life wasn't meant to be easy, and many obstacles will need to be overcome for Coral to find what she needs -- misunderstandings, secrets, her son's life in deadly peril from outlaws -- but most of all, Coral must learn to rise above her own fears, if she and her son are ever to become truly happy.

It's 1885, and love is in the air in the town of Come-By-Chance!

In this much-loved feel-good series (over 500 5-star reviews on Amazon) strong women risk everything to rise above their desperate circumstances, find true love, and wed real men who'll treat them right.


The Come-By-Chance series consists of:

Book 1 - Ruby
Book 2 - Emily
Book 3 - Violet
Book 4 - Kate
Book 5 - Rose
Book 6 - Emmy-Lou
Book 7 - Opal
Book 8 - Coral

Future releases in 2016Book 9 - Ava & Ina
Book 10 - Pearl
Book 11 - Tina
Book 12 - Jane

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 23, 2015

About the author

Juliet James is the author of the much-loved Come-By-Chance Historical Western Romance Series.

She writes feel-good Westerns that are easy reading, enjoyable, uplifting and fun. Sure, bad things happen—but in the end, the good guys always win, the bad guys get what's coming to them, and the deserving find true love. Maybe that's why her stories are loved by the old, the young, and men & women alike.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.

For the Georgian Romance author, see Juliet James.

Reviews

[Nancy Grimes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice clean read

Good series, love being able to stay in touch with every one in Come-By-Chance. Especially love hearing about animals and how smart they are.

[Catherine F Druitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Come-by-Chance,, Stay Forever.

This town is full of wonderful people, high excitement, and a distinguishing characteristic for each major character who appears. The identifying traits stick through all the books in the series. The author must have had great fun concocting the alliterative polyphonic vocabulary for Kate, or the unconnected babble of Emmy-Lou, heroines in other books of the series who continue to appear. We learn more and more about the town and her people in each book, and each re-visit is more and more fun. This book has four main characters, and one of them is Slowpoke, the horse. Tensions come from all sorts of personal relationships, and the horse is a marvelous player. I would recommend this book and the whole series to any who enjoy clean, exciting western historical fiction.

[Lori Riddell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great series!

[Barbara "Cookie" Serfaty Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coral - Book 8 Come By Chance Mail Order Brides

The love story of Coral and Roy. After her mother-in-law kill her husband, Coral when to live with Beryl Waters. After a while Coral and her son, Willie movie to Come-By-Chance to find a husband. On first sight Ray and Coral find love but for one problem. She hated horses and Roy and Willie love them. Will they find happiness? Great story.

[Stella Shahan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

This is my favorite of all the come by chance mail order brides books. I loved the storyline I loved the characters and who can't not love a horse name Jake slowpoke who was nominated for mayor of their town. Great story.

[Bernie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coral is the eighth book in the Come-By-Chance Mail Order Brides series written by author Juliet James.

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

First let me say that I really disliked the first book in this series. But each book has gotten better. I am enjoying them now. This book has outlaws and evil men. Coral’s first husband was evil. They had a little boy, Willie. After hubby’s death, she and her son, spends some time with Beryl (who we has meet in a previous book). Coral will not let her son anywhere near horses. She believes when men are around horses, the worst comes out of them. Of course, Willy adores “horsies”. So what happens when they come to Come-by- Chance. What happens when an evil outlaw also comes to town. Enjoyed this book. On to the next one.