The Bride He Let Go

She crossed half a country to marry a stranger. All she ever wanted was enough money to return home to Ireland.

Bridie Hamilton has never stopped dreaming of the green fields she left behind.

Years after her family emigrated from Ireland to Boston, those childhood memories still feel more like home than America ever has.

So when her father arranges for her to marry wealthy Texas merchant Jed McHale, Bridie agrees—but secretly sees the marriage as her one chance to raise enough money to return to Ireland.

She never expects to like the man she intends to deceive.

Jed is gentle, patient, and far too kind for Bridie’s plans. He wants a wife who will love him for himself rather than his wealth, and as the wedding draws closer, Bridie finds herself falling for both her new life in Galveston and the man waiting to make her his wife.

But Ireland has been her dream for too long to surrender now.

On the eve of their wedding, guilt forces Bridie to confess everything. She never intended to stay. She planned to take his money and leave him behind.

Heartbroken, Jed does the one thing she never imagined.

He lets her go.

More than that, he gives her the money to return to Ireland anyway.

At last, Bridie has everything she thought she wanted. But the home she remembered is not quite the home she finds—and everywhere she looks, she sees the face of the man she left behind in Texas.

So why does her heart still belong to Jed McHale?

A heartfelt historical western romance of second chances, impossible dreams, and discovering that sometimes home is not a place at all—but the person you cannot bear to leave behind.