Mail-Order Brides of the West: Bertha: A Montana Sky Series Novel (Mail-Order Brides of the West Series Book 5)

MAIL-ORDER BRIDES OF THE BERTHA, a Montana Sky Series Novella by NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Debra Holland Bertha Bucholtz returns to her St. Louis home after an unsuccessful stay at the mail-order bridal agency. Her family house is overflowing with her thin, beautiful sisters and their many suitors, and shy, overweight Bertha is lost among the chaos. Even her baking skillsso praised at the agencyarent special, for her six sisters and her mother are also excellent cooks. Desperate to be living on her own, Bertha searches for a job as a cook but with little success. Then a letter arrives from her nemesis at the bridal agency. Shrewish Prudence Crawford, now Mrs. Michael Morgan, invites Bertha to move to Morgans Crossing, Montana Territory and work as a cook and housekeeper at the boarding house for her husbands miners. Upon her arrival in Morgans Crossing, Bertha has to contend with Prudence, who seems to have mellowedor has she? The boarding house is dirty, run-down, and full of uncouth miners. As the only single woman for miles around and a lauded cook, Bertha quickly becomes the siren of the tiny town as well as nearby Sweetwater Springs, as miners and cowboys flock to court her. Now the shy woman who had no choice of suitors has an abundance of them to pick from. She never would have dreamt having too many swains was a bigger problem than having none at all. 1880s Mail-Order Brides of the West Mail-Order Brides of the Trudy Mail-Order Brides of the Evie Mail-Order Brides of the Heather Mail-Order Brides of the Lina Mail-Order Brides of the Darcy Mail-Order Brides of the Katherine Mail-Order Brides of the Prudence Mail-Order Brides of the Bertha Montana Sky Series in Chronological 1892 Beneath Montanas Sky 1886 Mail-Order Brides of the Trudy Mail-Order Brides of the Lina Mail-Order Brides of the Darcy Mail-Order Brides of the Prudence Mail-Order Brides of the Bertha 1890s Bride of Montana Wild Montana Sky Starry Montana Sky Stormy Montana Sky Montana Sky Christmas A Valentines Choice An Irish Blessing A Rolling Stone Painted Montana Sky Glorious Montana Sky Healing Montana Sky Sweetwater Springs Scrooge Sweetwater Springs Christmas Mystic Montana Sky Singing Montana Sky Bright Montana Sky (March 2018) Montana Sky Justice (August 2018) 2015 Angel in Paradise