Drummond’s not giving up easily, though, and Arabella is caught in the middle of his ongoing clash with Peter that began over the treatment of native people and now involves her. It’s the working-class baker to whom Arabella turns for friendship and also for help when she discovers a starving native girl in need of care. Sparks of affection flare, but not with the more suitable Drummond. The most persistent are two very different men - Lieutenant Richard Drummond, a gentleman and naval officer, and Peter Kelly, the local baker. Upon arriving, she instantly attracts suitors with her compassion, charm, and fiery red hair. Their need for respectable, Christian wives is Arabella’s chance at a new beginning. The man is old enough to be her grandfather, and he turns out to be anything but gentlemanly.įleeing what would certainly be an abusive marriage, she takes passage in one of the Columbia Mission Society’s bride ships bound for Vancouver Island and British Columbia, where men outnumber women approximately 10 to 1. That’s the situation Arabella Lawrence finds herself in when she agrees to marry her father’s employer. Especially when her stepmother wants her out of the house. And when employment options are limited, especially for women of noble birth, and marriageable men are hard to come by a 25-year-old spinster doesn’t have many options. By the early part of the decade, there were about 600,000 more women than men living in the country. You can click here to read my review of the first book, A Reluctant Bride.Įngland in the 1860s was not a good place to find a husband. This is the second book in her Bride Ships series. I’ve been a Jody Hedlund fan for some time now, and I was thrilled to receive a copy of her newest book The Runaway Bride to read and review before its release.
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