The Accident Prone Bride of Wind River
(2026)(A book in the Wind River Romances series)
A novel by Susan Leigh Carlton
The Accident-Prone Bride of Wind RiverA Mail-Order Western Romantic Comedy
Herschel McCormick runs one of the most successful ranches in Wind River, Wyoming Territory. Order, hard work, and discipline keep everything running smoothly—especially since becoming a widower and raising his lively five-year-old daughter alone.
What his household needs, everyone keeps telling him, is a sensible wife.
What he receives is Dorothy Whitaker.
Dottie arrives in Wind River with bright optimism, very little experience, and an unfortunate tendency to trip over nearly everything in sight. Within her first week she manages to flood the kitchen, start a minor cattle incident, and fall into the horse trough—twice.
To Herschel’s amazement, the ranch hands adore her.
Worse yet, his daughter Lucy thinks Dottie is the most wonderful person ever to set foot in Wind River and has begun keeping a notebook titled ‘Miss Whitaker’s Useful Confusions.’
But beneath the accidents and cheerful chaos is something Herschel didn’t expect: a woman with a warm heart, stubborn determination, and a way of bringing laughter back into a house that has been far too quiet.
As Dottie slowly learns the ways of ranch life—and Herschel slowly learns how to smile again—both begin to wonder if the most unexpected bride in Wind River might be exactly the one they needed all along.
A heartwarming and humorous frontier romance filled with laughter, family, and second chances in the wide-open Wyoming West.
Genre: Romance
Herschel McCormick runs one of the most successful ranches in Wind River, Wyoming Territory. Order, hard work, and discipline keep everything running smoothly—especially since becoming a widower and raising his lively five-year-old daughter alone.
What his household needs, everyone keeps telling him, is a sensible wife.
What he receives is Dorothy Whitaker.
Dottie arrives in Wind River with bright optimism, very little experience, and an unfortunate tendency to trip over nearly everything in sight. Within her first week she manages to flood the kitchen, start a minor cattle incident, and fall into the horse trough—twice.
To Herschel’s amazement, the ranch hands adore her.
Worse yet, his daughter Lucy thinks Dottie is the most wonderful person ever to set foot in Wind River and has begun keeping a notebook titled ‘Miss Whitaker’s Useful Confusions.’
But beneath the accidents and cheerful chaos is something Herschel didn’t expect: a woman with a warm heart, stubborn determination, and a way of bringing laughter back into a house that has been far too quiet.
As Dottie slowly learns the ways of ranch life—and Herschel slowly learns how to smile again—both begin to wonder if the most unexpected bride in Wind River might be exactly the one they needed all along.
A heartwarming and humorous frontier romance filled with laughter, family, and second chances in the wide-open Wyoming West.
Genre: Romance
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