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    Dusty: A Pair of Historical Romances
    Dusty: A Pair of Historical Romances
    Dusty: A Pair of Historical Romances
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    Dusty: A Pair of Historical Romances

    By Vanessa Carvo

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    For The Rest Of Their Lives - A biracial woman from Florida agrees to be a mail order bride to a Colorado rancher and is thrilled when he makes the long journey down south to pick her up. Sparks do not fly between the couple but she agrees to go back with him. She’s overweight while he is thin and a health advocate. A crisis brings them closer together than they ever thought they could be.

    How Chloe Appeased The Magical Spirit Wolf - A woman decides to leave her Connecticut home and become a mail order bride to a cowboy rancher in New Mexico. She leaps right into all of the responsibilities that come with owning a cattle ranch, but is unprepared at first with the appearance of an odd Native American shaman, who keeps warning her about a malevolent spirit in the form of a giant grey wolf called Gregor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 29, 2016
    ISBN9781365292545
    Dusty: A Pair of Historical Romances

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      Dusty - Vanessa Carvo

      Dusty: A Pair of Historical Romances

      Dusty: A Pair of Historical Romances

      By

      Vanessa Carvo

      Copyright 2016 Quietly Blessed & Loved Press

      For The Rest Of Their Lives

      Synopsis: For The Rest Of Their Lives - A biracial woman from Florida agrees to be a mail order bride to a Colorado rancher and is thrilled when he makes the long journey down south to pick her up. Sparks do not fly between the couple but she agrees to go back with him. She’s overweight while he is thin and a health advocate. A crisis brings them closer together than they ever thought they could be.

      Are you telling me that this white man will actually take me in, and like me, Suzette nearly shrieked in Mr. Johnson’s office. Mr. Johnson chuckled. He had known Suzette almost all of her life. He began working at the school in 1869, when she was in third grade. The time was a hard one for Suzette.

      She was a half black girl growing up in a time period when segregation was supposed to be coming to an end. Just because the law books said that you were supposed to treat blacks the same as whites, didn’t mean that’s what people did. Sometimes Suzette thought she had it worse than your typical black person because of the fact she wasn’t pure black, but she was half black.

      "Yes Suzette. It’s got a name that sounds bad, but being a mail order bride is a good opportunity for you. Do you really think that I’d set you up with someone that is going to hurt you? I’ve spoken with Richard myself and he is a great guy. He’s twenty-one years old, and lives in Colorado. He is looking for a woman to be by his side, and to love him.

      I think this will be a great opportunity for you. What I’d like to do is have you write to him personally and get to know each other. If you don’t think you two are a good match, then you stop there with no questions asked. If you do, however, like what you hear from him, I will personally help you travel to Colorado to be with him.

      Mr. Johnson grabbed his pen and wrote down the address for Richard and handed it over to Suzette. She looked at the handwritten address on the paper, biting her lip, and then thanked him and got up to leave. It was the end of the day and she had to walk home.

      Suzette, he called out. She turned around and looked at her favorite teacher, who she also considered her friend. I want the best for you. I’ve watched you grow from a nine year old little girl to the young lady you are today. I won’t guide you anywhere that I think you may get hurt, he told her.

      He had a look of concern as she walked out of his office.

      I know Mr. Johnson. Thank you for all of your help. I’ll go ahead and write him and see where it goes from there, she said as she walked out the door.

      Would you like me to walk you home today, he asked her. He thought of her sometimes more as a daughter than a student, and it showed when he became protective of her.

      No, I’m okay Mr. Johnson, I’ll walk by myself today, thank you, she said as she closed the door behind her.

      He wondered if she was upset and took his help wrong. He didn’t want her to think that he was trying to get rid of her, but truth be told, he wanted to get her out of the south. She didn’t belong down here. Being a half black girl back in the late eighteen hundreds was not easy on her.

      As Suzette walked out of his office and towards her home, dread came over her. The other students weren’t as understanding as Mr. Johnson was. They would say very mean and hateful things to Suzette. The white students didn’t accept her because she wasn’t fully white, and the black students didn’t accept her because she was part white.

      When she’d come home crying to her mother, her mother would be supportive and tell her that at least she had it easier than she did. Her mother was white and her father was black. Their story was a controversial one. They weren’t able to get married because of the anti-miscegenation laws in effect at the time.

      On the way home, Suzette thought about how her parents met. Her mother, Mary, was raised down in Dade county Florida. She was born in 1843. Her parents were all white Christian people who, as Mary would say, always thought they were better than everyone else. They owned two slaves.

      At the time, there was nothing wrong with this. They had a female slave who would work inside the house cooking, cleaning and helping with the children. Mary had three siblings, so her mother often needed help. The female slave who worked inside was polite.

      She kept her head down and did her job without ever complaining. The male slave worked out in the field with her father. They lived on a farm and had plenty of work to do. The two slaves lived in a guesthouse on the same property as Mary’s parents. They weren’t allowed to get married at the time, but they did live quietly as husband and wife.

      A few years after the couple came to work for Mary’s parents, they had a child, and then a few years later they had another. This didn’t interfere with their work inside or outside of the home, so her parents didn’t have a problem with it. Mary often told Suzette how it was growing up living with slaves working for you.

      Her mother would tell her not to make friends with the children, even though the oldest boy, David, was her age. She couldn’t help it though. One day she was outside playing, when he came up and asked her if he could play with her. They were eight years old and didn’t know any better. At that age, they didn’t see the color of each other’s skin, but they saw deeper inside.

      Mary wondered how it was that adults were so closed minded. Couldn’t they see how wonderful her friends ere? For the first few years, David’s mother tried to keep them away from each other. Do you know what your mother will do to us if she finds out that I’m allowing you to play with a slave boy, she’d ask Mary.

      Mary would argue that she only wanted to be friends with David. By the time they were eleven, nobody could keep them apart. When they turned teenagers, both parents couldn’t keep them apart. Every day when Mary would come home from school, she’d run to the guesthouse to find David so they could hang out.

      Since the schools were so mean and segregation was in full effect, his mother refused to allow them to attend school. Instead, Mary would bring home her schoolwork, and teach David what she was learning in school. When they were both approaching eighteen, Mary’s mother had tried to hook her

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