Jessamine's Garden — Debra Samms

If you love a sweet mail order bride romance, you will love this story. It is a clean and wholesome romance about American Mail Order Brides set in Oregon in the late 1800s.

Jessamine Black takes charge of planting a garden for the Sawyerville Ladies Home so they can have fresh vegetables and greens. She knows a thing or two about gardening and about keeping animals away from the fledgling plants.

Stanley Ritter is assigned to watch over the garden and provide guidance to Jessamine and the other prospective brides. He was a farmer in Idaho before coming to Sawyerville and he lends a hand by giving tips and advice on the planting and guarding against the animal kingdom.

Haunted by her ghosts and scars from a childhood tragedy, she sometimes violates Stanley's advice, putting herself in danger. But he has an intuition about her tendencies and seems to always be around in her time of need.

This is their story of love and bonding over nature.

Jessamine's Garden is the 8th book in the Sawyerville Mail Order Bride series, a series of stories of brave and courageous women who traveled over land or by sea to seek a new life and love in the western frontier.