Category: Rebecca Pineridge

Adelaide Cooper has a God-given gift for mechanical work, but as a woman in 1885 Boston, her skills are considered unseemly. After her father’s death leaves her alone and ostracized, she answers a mail-order bride advertisement as “Adelaide Whitfield,” hoping for a fresh start in Montana Territory. Seth McAllister needs a wife to help raise…

Anna Cremer’s expert fingers can translate any telegraph message – except the one telling her how to save her father’s legacy. Facing mounting debts and professional prejudice in 1870s Boston, she accepts a proposal from Wyoming rancher Edward Wegman: marriage in exchange for running Thunder Creek’s new telegraph office. Edward needs a competent operator before…