The spiritual aspects are strong, clearly not an afterthought. Courtney Ballinger: Marriage of convenience stories are always hooking to me, and this one didn’t disappoint.This book is my new favorite book by Jody Hedlund. Hedlund vividly captures the spirit of pioneering in a lush Pacific Northwest setting, and her characters display faith naturally and realistically. Publishers Weekly: In the entertaining third installment to Hedlund’s Bride Ships series two good-hearted people find unlikely love as they struggle to fulfill their callings.Editorial Reviews for A Bride of Convenience After a hasty wedding, they soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all. Intent on protecting Zoe and frustrated by his failed engagement, Abe offers his own hand as groom.

With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, Zoe accepts a proposal from a miner of questionable character after he promises to help her locate her brother. While there, he’s devastated by the news from his fiancee in England that she’s marrying another man. Pastor to miners in the mountains, Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned baby during a routine visit to Victoria and joins efforts with Zoe, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women, to care for the infant. Unemployed mill worker Zoe Hart jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being accused of a crime.

A Bride of Convenience by Jody Hedlund