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The organist began playing and Lilly and Dagmar started walking down the aisle toward Seth and his father.
Seth thought of Lilly playfully singing the Wedding March’s first verse to him last night.
Here comes the bride dressed all in light, radiant and lovely she shines in his sight.
Gently she glides graceful as a dove, meeting her bridegroom her eyes full of love.
Seth never dreamed he’d find his true love in a Chicago saloon, all because Lily responded to a mail–order bride ad following a fire in Massachusetts. Lilly suspected the mill owner set the place on fire himself. Seth hated to admit it, but right now, he was glad a burning match brought Lilly into his life. She was his radiant bride and her eyes shone with love and happiness for him.
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Asking God’s blessing as they begin, life with new meaning, life shared as one.
Entering God’s union, bowed before His throne, promise each other to have and to hold.
Lilly sent a prayer of thanks up to heaven for her new life in Kansas with Seth, his family and friends. Seth was a good man who would always love, respect and protect her, and the children they hoped to have. She’d never have guessed her love of singing would draw her to Chicago, or that Seth would arrive at the same time for a horse sale.
Lilly locked eyes with Seth as she walked toward the altar, ready to renew her promise to love and cherish him forever. Answering a mail–order bride advertisement turned out to be the best thing she’d ever done.
The End
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Lilly and Seth’s story starts a spin-off series (as of yet not named) featuring Pastor and Kaitlyn Reagan’s six sons mentioned in the Brides with Grit series. Be sure to watch for the romance stories for Seth’s brothers, Angus, Fergus, Mack, Cullen and Tully in the near future.
If you enjoyed reading this book, there are forty-nine more books in this series, so keep reading! Find out about the rest of the American Mail-Order Bride books at http://www.newwesternromance.com/.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the wonderful authors who thought up this idea and coordinated this epic series. Thanks so much for inviting me to be a part of this special group. I’m sure you thought you were herding cats at times!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Linda Hubalek grew up on the Kansas prairie, always wanting to be a farmer like her parents and ancestors. After earning a college degree in Agriculture, marriage took Linda away from Kansas as her husband worked in engineering jobs in several states.
Meanwhile, Linda wrote historical fiction books about pioneer women who homesteaded in Kansas between 1854 to the early 1900s, especially her Swedish immigrant ancestors.
Linda Hubalek and her husband eventually moved back home to Kansas, where they raised American buffalo (bison) for a dozen years.
Linda is currently writing clean, sweet historical western romances set in the 1800s.
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Historical Romance by Linda K. Hubalek
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