Mail Order Blythe (Secret Baby Dilemma Book 8)

Description

Blythe Greenly works as a maid for the Stapletons, a prominent Chicago family until the oldest son returns home from the university and manages to trap her. Because she knows her employer, who dotes on her son, will not support her cause, she must get away.

Blythe answers a matrimonial advertisement and begins corresponding with several prospects who are willing to consider a widow. Her first two choices, who she tells she is carrying a child, reject her. She keeps her baby a secret from her last hope, a U.S. Army sergeant stationed at Fort Fred Steele in Wyoming. Along the way, she meets a man traveling to the same place she is going.

Eli Morgan is a science instructor at the University of Iowa. His mother is intent on him responding to two letters from from carefully-vetted prospective wives for Eli to consider. However, as an amateur astronomer, he chooses to set matrimonial pursuits aside the summer of 1878 to travel with two fellow teachers 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?