A Bride Before the Storm (Brides of Junction City #1)

Wyoming Territory, 1886. She answered his advertisement for a sensible wife. She didn’t know the range was already dying beneath his feet.

Margaret Colston crosses two thousand miles to marry a stranger, trading her family’s ruin in Boston for the promise of stability in a Wyoming cattle town built around a rail junction.

Caleb Draycott needs a wife who won’t faint at hard news — what he doesn’t tell her is that his father’s herd is already too large for the land to carry, and that a hard winter could ruin them all.

When Margaret overhears the truth Caleb has been hiding, she has to decide whether a marriage built on withheld facts can ever become a marriage built on trust.

A Bride Before the Storm is a slow-burn marriage-of-convenience romance set against the historical Great Die-Up of 1886–87. For readers who love clean historical romance with real emotional stakes, plainspoken heroes learning to open up, and heroines whose competence matters as much as their hearts.

Book One of the Brides of Junction City series.