Milstead Doreen Milstead 
Hard Tack Life: Four Historical Romance Novellas 

A Widow & Her Rival – Widowed and pregnant, a woman answers an ad for a housekeeper to a man and his children. She heads west, content to be able to look after both someone else’s children, and her own baby when it is born. Things do not turn out as planned PLUS Sabotaging Her Own Marriage – An independent young woman doesn’t want to marry the man her father has chosen, so she does her best to make herself seem unattractive and ill-tempered. However, her opinion of the young man begins to change PLUS Pregnant & Widowed & With A New Family Waiting For Her – This is a beautiful love story about a woman who is pregnant, then finds herself widowed, and with the only means for her survival open to her, becomes a mail order bride to rancher in Colorado PLUS The Pregnant Woman From Manchester – A woman from Manchester manages to escape her abusive husband, just as she learns she’s pregnant; and trying to get as far away as she can, becomes a mail order bride to a farmer in California.