Charlotte's Gamble (Love on the Oregon Trail, #3)

In 1851, Charlotte, alone for the first time in her life, needed a distraction. Her parents were in Heaven now, and her best friend, Oliver, was at seminary, studying to be a preacher. When a letter from him arrives shortly after her mother's funeral, she is thrilled, but his news turns her world upside down. He wasn't coming home, He was going to Oregon to plant a church, and he needs a wife. That's when the idea came. Why not meet him in St. Joseph and offer her services? They are first a...