Zandy's Bride
More Like a War Than a Marriage
A brutal frontier romance where a mail-order bride's dehumanization gradually transforms into genuine connection through shared hardship and survival.
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.
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