The Express Bride 

(Daughters of the Mayflower #9) 

Paperback – ebook

July 1, 2019

by Kimberley Woodhouse

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Books
• ISBN-13: 978-1643520636

The Wilderness Is a Great Place to Hide

Jacqueline Rivers manages a Pony Express station in 1860 Utah territory after her father’s death. There are daily stresses placed on her in this unconventional role—and now a government official is asking her to sniff out counterfeiters. When Elijah Johnson passes through on the stage while on an exhausting quest to find his boss’s heir, he doesn’t want to leave the beguiling station manager. In fact, he may never leave when caught in the crossfire of the territory’s criminal activities. Jackie can’t decide if Elijah is friend or foe. Can she remain strong when secrets of the past and present are finally unearthed?

Join the adventure as the Daughters of the Mayflower series continues with The Express Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse.

More in the Daughters of the Mayflower series:
The Mayflower Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1620 Atlantic Ocean (February 2018)
The Pirate Bride by Kathleen Y’Barbo – set 1725 New Orleans (April 2018)
The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep – set 1760 during the French and Indian War (June 2018)
The Patriot Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1774 Philadelphia (August 2018)​
The Cumberland Bride by Shannon McNear – set 1794 on the Wilderness Road (October 2018)
The Liberty Bride by MaryLu Tyndall – set 1814 Baltimore (December 2018)
The Alamo Bride by Kathleen Y’Barbo – set 1836 Texas (February 2019)
The Golden Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1849 San Francisco (April 2019)
The Express Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1860 Utah territory (July 2019)

My thoughts (by  guest reviewer Marilyn Ridgway):   

This book brought to life the days when The Pony Express was active in our American history. It is 1860 with Jacqueline (aka Jack) Rivers running the Carson Sink Station in Utah Territory, after her father died. She grew up there so was very capable and loved her “adopted brother” and the young Pony Express boys who was part of her station. The stage stop brought two men to Carson Sink with each one requesting assistance or information from Jack. She was glad to assist but sure would have preferred that her dad, Marshall Rivers, was still living. There are multiple layers to this story with the forgery of treasury notes being circulated among the stations, a request to find the lost daughter of Charles Vines, a millionaire in Kansas City and the daily happenings at a Pony Express Station with the documentation and quickness of exchanging horses and riders.

The Express Bride is truly a wonderful read depicting our historical era of the Pony Express, challenges faced in solving a forgery scandal, locating a missing daughter, romance and an underlying Christian message. I appreciated the way the author interwove the characters’ Bible Study of Scriptures into the story with scriptures being cited. This book can easily be read as a standalone, even though it is book nine in The Daughters of the Mayflower series.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing and was under no obligation to post a review. All thoughts expressed are my own.