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    Mail Order Bride - Clara's Destiny: Faith Creek Brides, #7
    Mail Order Bride - Clara's Destiny: Faith Creek Brides, #7
    Mail Order Bride - Clara's Destiny: Faith Creek Brides, #7
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    Mail Order Bride - Clara's Destiny: Faith Creek Brides, #7

    By Karla Gracey

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    Clara Warburton is strong willed and determined that being female should not hold her back. As a student at Stanford, she wishes she could continue to enjoy the freedoms she has found there. But Society frowns upon clever and ambitious women, and her Papa is determined she will now learn her place. But Clara is not the kind of girl to take ultimatums lying down and so sets a course of her own making. But will it all end well? Has she finally been too clever for her own happiness?

    William Gilbert has travelled far and wide as an itinerant preacher and academic, but has finally found a place to call home. When asked to take up the role of minister in Faith Creek's newly built church he didn't hesitate to say yes. He's seen many of the townsfolk find the love of their life, and wants to be the one facing the altar for a change, but will he get everything he dreams of?

    Clara Warburton is strong willed and determined that being female should not hold her back. As a student at Stanford, she wishes she could continue to enjoy the freedoms she has found there. But Society frowns upon clever and ambitious women, and her Papa is determined she will now learn her place. But Clara is not the kind of girl to take ultimatums lying down and so sets a course of her own making. But will it all end well? Has she finally been too clever for her own happiness?

    William Gilbert has travelled far and wide as an itinerant preacher and academic, but has finally found a place to call home. When asked to take up the role of minister in Faith Creek's newly built church he didn't hesitate to say yes. He's seen many of the townsfolk find the love of their life, and wants to be the one facing the altar for a change, but will he get everything he dreams of?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKarla Gracey Books
    Release dateMar 23, 2017
    ISBN9781386920489
    Mail Order Bride - Clara's Destiny: Faith Creek Brides, #7

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      Mail Order Bride - Clara's Destiny - Karla Gracey

      Mail Order Bride

      Clara's Destiny

      Faith Creek Brides: Book 7

      Karla Gracey

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

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      Chapter One

      THE LIBRARY WAS SO quiet Clara could hear the gentle breath of the man sat opposite her. He had a nice face and wore tiny round spectacles with a wire rim. He had blemish free, pale skin and a boyish countenance. She wondered how old he was; he certainly did not look old enough to have left school, but the size and complexity of the tomes he had spread around him made her doubt such an assumption. He looked terribly serious, huffing at the muffled whispers and footsteps of other users. Cautiously she turned the pages of the book in front of her, the almost imperceptible rustle sounding as loud as thunder in the silence. She wondered if it was disturbing him, but thankfully he seemed not to notice.

      Clara pulled the desk lamp closer to her. The tiny words were hard to make out, but she was determined to complete her dissertation, and Professor Humboldt had recommended this tricky text might be the very thing she had been searching for to prove her argument. Uncle Horace insisted every evening that she would never complete her studies, but as one of the first cohort of students at the newly opened Stanford University, she was determined not to let Mrs Stanford down. Jane Stanford and her husband, Leland, had been determined to admit young women from the very first. Clara had been so excited when her application had been accepted. It was hard work, and she knew that her family all thought her crazy to even consider academia. After all, what use did a young woman with money, wealth, and position need with an education? She knew that everyone had expected her to be the model of decorum in Society, then marry a suitable young man and produce a nursery full of children. Yet such a fate bored her. After all, it was now 1894, and surely the world could permit a few women to have ambition? Clara longed to do something more than just be a bride, though she had little idea of what that might be. Although her grades were amongst the best in her class the doors of the professions her male peers would be entering in their droves when school was done in just three short weeks were firmly closed to her. Clara had considered medicine, the law, even an ecclesiastical career over the years, but none would welcome a woman. Nor would her family ever permit it.

      Clara watched as the earnest young man opposite began to pack up his books. He gave her a surreptitious glance. She smiled at him. He looked a little surprised, his eyes pinging open. I...I’m sorry. I did not mean to disturb you, he said awkwardly.

      It is no trouble. I have been worrying all afternoon that I might disturb you. You looked so engrossed, Clara said nervously, wondering if he would know she was teasing him.

      I can get quite fierce, and every sound seems so loud when I am trying to concentrate. I am sorry if I have made things difficult for you. How goes it? he asked, pointing to the sheaf of papers that made up the piece of work that would define her entire college experience.

      Dreadfully, Clara admitted. I feel I have quite lost any sense I once had – as if someone has stolen my brain and replaced it with cabbage. He grinned, a little goofily, at her joke, and she giggled.

      Well, I certainly know how that feels, the stranger admitted. Good luck.

      And to you. He gave a polite little bow and disappeared off through the rows of books. She smiled, and wondered why she had never met him before now. The University often held a number of suppers and even occasional balls where students from all faculties would gather and socialize together, but in three years of attending the University she had never once come across him.

      Clara turned back to her studies, and without any further distractions she located just the details she had prayed for. She hurriedly added the quotes and details to her essay, and then began the laborious task of re-writing all of it. She had a tendency to write in a hasty

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