The Orphan Train to Colorado
(2026)(The sixth book in the Orphan Trains Out West series)
A novel by Emma Ashwood
Olivia Baker has spent ten years nursing her mother. When the funeral is over, she is thanked, praised, and then ignored.
She has been needed all her life. She has never once been wanted.
So when she finds an advertisement from a Colorado doctor seeking a sensible woman to make a home for a motherless girl, she does something no one in Boston expects. She answers it. She would rather be cold in Colorado than furniture in Boston.
Dr. Charles Aldridge writes the way he diagnoses. Plainly, honestly, nothing promised that he cannot give. Respect, an honest living, and a home. Affection is the one term he will not put in writing.
He also tells her the truth about the child. The whole town calls her a jinx. Women cross the street. His housekeeper of eleven years has quit rather than cook for her.
Olivia buys a ticket anyway.
She arrives to a husband who reads from a list, a silent red-haired girl who hands over the worst word about herself at the door, and a mining camp that will not forgive either of them. Two locked hearts and one long winter.
She came to be useful. She never meant to fall in love.
Genre: Romance
She has been needed all her life. She has never once been wanted.
So when she finds an advertisement from a Colorado doctor seeking a sensible woman to make a home for a motherless girl, she does something no one in Boston expects. She answers it. She would rather be cold in Colorado than furniture in Boston.
Dr. Charles Aldridge writes the way he diagnoses. Plainly, honestly, nothing promised that he cannot give. Respect, an honest living, and a home. Affection is the one term he will not put in writing.
He also tells her the truth about the child. The whole town calls her a jinx. Women cross the street. His housekeeper of eleven years has quit rather than cook for her.
Olivia buys a ticket anyway.
She arrives to a husband who reads from a list, a silent red-haired girl who hands over the worst word about herself at the door, and a mining camp that will not forgive either of them. Two locked hearts and one long winter.
She came to be useful. She never meant to fall in love.
Genre: Romance
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