Christmas at the Teel House: A Sweet Christian Mail-Order Bride Romance (Christmas in Jubilee Book 1)
About
She has spent her whole life needing no one. Then she crosses a continent to find the one man who might change that.
Adelaide Prentiss has built a good life for herself in Chillicothe, Ohio. At thirty-two, she owns a successful millinery, supports herself comfortably, and has learned never to settle for a man simply because the town thinks she ought to marry.
But Adelaide wants something she has never dared admit aloud: to be chosen—not because she is useful, capable, or sensible, but simply because she is herself.
So she does something no sensible woman in 1881 would do.
She writes to a minister in a remote Colorado town and asks him to find her a husband.
But Adelaide has conditions.
She will not marry a stranger immediately. She will not be pressured by family, church, or community. She will spend the winter getting to know the man, and she will give her answer only when spring comes and the mountain pass opens.
The man who agrees is Josiah Rusk, a quiet, hardworking rancher with little interest in charming anyone and even less practice at saying what lies beneath his silence.
When Adelaide arrives in Jubilee just before winter closes the pass, she finds herself living under the roof of the Teel House, surrounded by a town that has nothing to do but watch, wonder, and talk.
And Josiah?
He cannot show her the land and home he has spent years building because the snow has buried them until spring.
For the first time, he has nothing to offer her but himself.
As the long Colorado winter settles over Jubilee, Adelaide discovers that her carefully written rules cannot protect her from everything—not from loneliness, not from belonging, and certainly not from a quiet man whose strength is very different from her own.
With Christmas approaching, the snow falling, and the mountain pass closing behind them, two guarded hearts must learn whether love can grow when neither person is allowed to hide behind what they own, what they can do, or what the world expects of them.
Christmas at the Teel House is a tender historical Christian romance about courage, faith, belonging, and the beautiful risk of finally allowing yourself to be known.