{"product_id":"plus-size-women-mail-order-brides-cancelled-upon-arrival-rejected-brides-heavenly-humor-and-the-birth-of-the-1890s-mail-order-husbands-club-9798270683603","title":"Plus Size Women Mail-Order Brides -Cancelled upon Arrival: Rejected Brides, Heavenly Humor, and the Birth of the 1890s Mail-Order Husbands Club","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cherry Hargrove\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Romance - Romantic Comedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlus Size Women Mail-Order Brides: Cancelled Upon Arrival\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaith-Based Historical Romance - Book Club Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy Cherry Hargrove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen eight certified graduates of Fannie Farmer's famous Boston Cooking School board a westbound train, they expect to meet the husbands who sent for them. Instead, they meet a telegram. \u003cb\u003e\"Contracts cancelled upon arrival.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as heartbreak turns into holy humor in this uproarious historical novel about faith, flour, and female resilience in the 1890s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuby Mae Carter, Naomi Two Feathers, Mae Ling Wong, Pearl Ann Johnson, Betsy June Hollister, Jo Harper, Hattie Lou Dawson, and Carrie Baptiste-better known as \u003ci\u003eThe Bakers Eight\u003c\/i\u003e-arrive in the dusty town of Bear Creek with rolling pins, certificates, and an unshakable belief that God is not through with them yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the sheriff reads the telegram aloud, accusing them of deceit and breach of promise, the women just smile. Ruby Mae thanks him kindly and declares, \"Gentlemen, our dough will rise higher than your disbelief.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the bachelors sulk and the holiness ladies gossip, the Bakers Eight buy a crumbling boardinghouse with twenty-five rooms and three acres of weeds. Within weeks, those same acres bloom with laughter, biscuits, and revival songs. Denied credit at the general store, they build their own supply line. Shunned by the church women, they pray right on the lawn. When the saloon girls come, they bake for them too-because grace is for everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the real showstopper comes when the jealous bachelors march them into a crowded courtroom, demanding damages, reputation, and monthly compensation for \"emotional distress.\" The Bakers Eight, dressed in aprons and prayer, stand their ground. The traveling judge bangs his gavel and asks for evidence. There is none-only rumors, yeast, and holy laughter. He dismisses the case with a wave of his hand and a crumb of their cornbread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom that day, the Bakers Eight decide to start something new: \u003cb\u003ea Christian Correspondence Society for Mail-Order Grooms.\u003c\/b\u003e If men could order wives, women of faith could certainly pray for husbands. They write letters, receive portraits, and keep the local artist busier than a wedding choir. Some suitors are doctors, some Scotsmen, all learning that faith-and love-can still rise after rejection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween dancing on the three acres, healing the sick, and saving runaway souls, these plus-size heroines turn gossip into glory. Their bread recipes spread faster than the rumors, and their laughter becomes legend. By the final chapter, even the holiness committee is invited to the wedding feast-each woman gifted a loaf named \u003ci\u003eGrace.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of humor, scripture, romance, and redemption, \u003ci\u003ePlus Size Women Mail-Order Brides: Cancelled Upon Arrival\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the God who takes what others reject and turns it into revival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for book clubs, church reading groups, and lovers of clean historical romance with a joyful twist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.\" - Psalm 126:5\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"And the bread shall rise again.\" - The Bakers Eight \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCheckout the authors other books: https: \/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/plussizewomensbooks","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594391437463,"sku":"9798270683603","price":1272.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798270683603.webp?v=1774985842","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/plus-size-women-mail-order-brides-cancelled-upon-arrival-rejected-brides-heavenly-humor-and-the-birth-of-the-1890s-mail-order-husbands-club-9798270683603","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}