Pony Express
The Express Bride (Daughters of the Mayflower, #9) by Kimberley Woodhouse
Number of pages: 256
Barbour Publishing
Released: 2019
Jacqueline "Jackie, Jack" Rivers runs a "full home station" for the Pony Express and a stage stop, with rooms to rent for a night or a week.
She is kept constantly busy, with preparing meals for everyone, making sure that the meals are tasty and hearty for all of the express riders and the stagecoach riders.
She runs everything herself now, that her father had passed on. It had only been the two of them, since her mother had passed when she was but a babe.
Elijah Johnson works for Charles Vine, as a personal secretary, a do-everything-man for Mr. Vines. Elijah is sent on a mission to find Mr. Vines' estranged wife and daughter. It has been 26 years, since they both disappeared, all Charles knows is they were headed West.
Elijah is very tired and uncomfortable, as the stagecoach is surrounded in dust. There is no way to escape from it.
Jack gets the mail packet from whomever rushes in and takes it out of the pouch and separates the letters for her station and then wraps up the bundle and puts it back in the packet. And, the next rider gets the packet and jumps up on the waiting horse.
Elijah decides to stay at Jack's rooming house, so he can get some help from Jack, pouring over all of the past records of who has stayed in this rooming house.
The book is a great read. One that will occupy a spot on my favorite shelf.
I have received a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing and was under no obligation to post a review.
The Express Bride (Daughters of the Mayflower, #9) by Kimberley Woodhouse
