Ace's Bride — Sylvia McDaniel

The Past Collides With the Future Creating Mail-Order Bride SparksAfter being gone for years, Mick 'Ace' McIntire ordered himself a mail-order bride and returned home to Russell Gulch, Colorado. But everything has changed at home. His reason for ordering himself a bride is dead, his brother and father have both remarried and Mick is hiding his alter ego, Ace, the gambler from his family. If things couldn't get worse, his mail-order bride is right out of the past he's trying to keep hidden.Anna Young, or Lady Melody as she's known in the saloon, is running from a much too ambitious fan who wants to make her his own caged singing bird. Realizing the only way to escape her over zealous suitor is to become unavailable, she signs up with a mail-order bride agency. But imagine her surprise when the man who lifts the veil at her wedding is non other than the attractive gambler in the saloon where Lady Melody sang.Hiding from the past, can Mick and Anna start fresh or will the demons from the River Bottom Saloon follow them to Colorado? And can the attraction they denied in Kansas City overcome their distrust and bring them together forever?Ace's Bride is a sweet historical western romance novel of 30,000 words. One man, one mail order Bride with a guaranteed happily ever after.