Mercy becomes Joseph’s assistant when seasickness strikes the passengers, and he comes to admire her caring spirit. Although she gets onboard by agreeing to become a bride, she actually has no intention of marrying once she arrives. Then, desperate to escape her destitution, Mercy reluctantly signs up for a bride ship sailing for Vancouver, and she meets Joseph again onboard the Tynemouth, where Joseph is the ship’s surgeon. In 1862, Mercy Wilkins lives in the London slums, and after finding a dying infant and bringing her to the hospital, she meets Lord Joseph Colville, an aristocrat filling in for the regular doctor. Hedlund ( With You Always) opens the Bride Ships series with a lively story about the Victorian class system the workings of bride ships, which traveled to the English settlement of Vancouver Island and the place of women in that society.
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