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The Escape (A Prologue): A Mail Order Bride Romance (The Dalton Brides Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Cassie Hayes (Author), Kirsten Osbourne (Author), Kit Morgan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

3.9 1,220 ratings

Book 1 of 9: The Dalton Brides

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How can three sisters escape marriage to three old men? Run to Texas and marry three identical brothers!

The Blue sisters are desperate. When terrible lies about Bonnie, Gwen and Libby are spread all over town, a scandal of epic proportions erupts. To save the family from further disgrace, their father promises them to three of the most lecherous old goats in Beckham, Massachusetts. They would do anything to avoid such a miserable fate, including becoming mail order brides.

Walton Dalton, the oldest of identical triplets, has dreams of building a ranching empire in north Texas. He’s claimed his land, but now he needs to convince his brothers to join him. He knows all he has to do is ask for their help and they’ll come, but are Nate and Bart as ready as Walt is to take a wife and settle down? Aw heck, what they don’t know won’t hurt ‘em!

The Escape is the short prologue to three connected books by historical western romance authors Kirsten Osbourne, Cassie Hayes and Kit Morgan.

THE DALTON BRIDES SERIES:

The Escape (Prologue)

The Rancher’s Mail Order Bride by Kirsten Osbourne

The Cowboy’s Mail Order Bride by Kit Morgan

The Drifter’s Mail Order Bride by Cassie Hayes

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00QOWH556
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (December 6, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 6, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2583 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 39 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #16,801 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #11 in Western Short Stories
- #16 in Frontier & Pioneer Western Fiction
- #147 in One-Hour Romance Short Reads

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Kirsten Osbourne
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USA Today bestselling author Kirsten Osbourne knows how to write. Each book is an experience that transplants the reader, indulging them in decadence, intense emotion and sweeping love.
Kirsten was born in Wisconsin, and now lives in Idaho, but she's lived in Minnesota, Texas, and Louisiana along the way.
She writes contemporary and historical romance, venturing into the realm of paranormal romance and women's fiction. She invites you to join her in her world of fantasy, love, and make believe, no matter the location, where there is always a happily ever after at the end.
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USA Today bestselling author Kit Morgan, aka Geralyn Beauchamp, is a versatile author of over 150 books and counting! Whether she's writing historical, contemporary, romantic suspense or time travel with a twist, her books deliver pure fun and romance! Kit's stories are whimsical, inspirational, sweet and clean stories that depict a strong sense of family and community. Her characters will seem like old friends and readers have fallen in love with entire towns Kit has created and never tire of visiting them. When writing as Geralyn Beauchamp, her books are epic, adventurous, romantic sci-fi/fantasy at its best. The Matchmakers in Time Series written under both pen names are reader favorites. A perfect mash up of both story worlds!
If you like Kit Morgan's books then you might also like the Time Master Book series written under Geralyn Beauchamp and can be found here on amazon.
Kit lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in a little cabin in the woods with her sister, nephew, one lovable mutt and an obnoxious cat.
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Bestselling author Cassie Hayes grew up pretending she was Laura Ingalls (before that pesky Almanzo arrived on the scene) in the middle of Oregon farm country. She writes sweet stories about love and adventure in the Old West and lives with her husband, three cats, and ten chickens in Colorado.
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Char Denae

Love this prologue!

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2015

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I love the mail-order bride genre, and I can already tell that this series is going to be a good read. The characters are intriguing and have a lot of potential for interesting plots. Each written by a different author, the three books in the series center around one of a set of triplets who are 'encouraged' by the eldest, to settle down and start a ranching 'empire' with him. Unknown to the two youngest, he also sends away for brides for the three of them. Being threatened with marriage to the old, pervy deacons of their church after an embarrassing scandal, the three Blue sisters head out in the middle of the night to begin their lives as ranchers' wives. Imagine the fun when they find out that two of the brothers don't even know they're coming. I can't wait!

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Christi C.

Good story but need details the same.

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2015

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This series was good but the authors should have gotten together better on the names and other small details. This book, The Escape, was just to get you familiar with the Dalton brother's and Blue sister's and their circumstances. One of the Blue's brothers names started out as Brett in the second book titled "The Rancher's Mail-Order Bride". By the third & forth book he was Benedict and at one point he was called Bert. I usually had to skip several pages to get to what I hadn't read previously. All four books have everything that "The Escape" has and it wasn't copied and pasted or it would have read exactly the same in all four. Then as the series went on the conversations would change just a bit. It gets confusing when names are different. I realize all three of the sisters are going to have different views which was why there are three books following this one but they really should have copied and pasted conversations so details were a little better. I loved the story but I just didn't like how things would change from book to book. I believe in the The Rancher's book that Bart was gone several times but when I read The Drifter's and The Cowboy's books he was only gone once. Then they all ended the same way. I still don't know why the Blue's brothers came. Maybe there is going to be another book to explain this. I would hope. Otherwise you will be left hanging as I am. I love all three of these authors but I am not as happy with this series written by all three.

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Robin Malek

Triplets

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2014

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The prologue is an interesting start to three brothers and three sisters who have different ideas about marriage. This ought to be an awesome trilogy. Three fantastic authors doing their thing. I can hardly wait.

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Viola Frere

sounds good

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2024

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This is the Prologue to the Dalton Brides series. It is written by several different authors they all sound very good. I can not wait to start the next book.

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Barbara VW

A good way to decide if these books are for you.

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2016

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This is the prologue for the Dalton Brides series. This a good way to help you decide whether the Dalton Brides series is for you. Each book can standalone. Walt decides at 27, that it is time to settle down. He has bought land for him and his brothers. Since he is the oldest of the triplets, it has always been his responsibility to take care of the other two. Walt writes a letter and tells the woman about the ranch and his brothers. The brides-to-be are sisters. They have a major problem with their hometown so Bonnie, the oldest, has decided that they will leave home and become brides to men in Texas. The letter from Walt seems just perfect for them. When they arrive in Texas, a problem develops, what will it be? You can read the books in any order, but the suggested order is the Rancher's Mail-Order Bride, the Cowboy's Mail-Order Bride, and the Drifter's Mail-Order Bride.

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K. Hatch

I wanted to like this series

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2016

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I wanted to like this series. It seemed so cute on premise. But quite literally, if you read one of them, you have read them all. Yes there are differing points of view if you read each one, which gives you a tiny bit more to the story, but none of the information you get is what you're really looking for. Almost a complete reiteration each time.

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Claire Brooks

Cute into to series

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2021

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I must admit thst I've read the next to books already. But, this was a good intro, giving me some information that was only hinted at. Thanks.

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Amy Lawrence

....Being there for family....

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014

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I have enjoyed all three authors for a good while now. So of course when this came out had to pick it up. Besides these are identical triplets which different personalities, but there isn't a bad one of the three nor hard to look at. The oldest brother has asked his brothers to come and help him.

Then you have the Blue sister's with completely different personalities and different looks. The oldest is considered homily and no will want to marry her so her mother had her learn other skills, while her middle sister is considered the prettiest girl in the community, but has more trouble for her and the family, the youngest is considered pretty and not expected to do anything either. There is malicious gossip been spread about the middle sister that is untrue, has been believed and added her sisters in with it. Now the town is snubbing the whole family.

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