01951cam a2200457 i 4500 502354727 TxAuBib 20210518120000.0 190322s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2019011129 9781432864873 1432864874 (OCoLC)1090697778 TxAuBib rda Hedlund, Jody,. A reluctant bride [Large Print] / Jody Hedlund. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. ℗2019. 517 pages, Hardcover ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Bride Ships, The ; 1 1862. After facing desperate heartache and loss in the London slums, Mercy agrees to join a bride ship, the Tynemouth. Wealthy and titled, Joseph takes to the sea as the ship's surgeon, hoping to escape the pain of losing his family. He has no intention of settling down, but when Mercy becomes his assistant they must fight against a forbidden love. As hundreds of single men congregate along the shore of Vancouver Island, eager to claim a bride from the ship, will Mercy and Joseph miss their chance at love? -- adapted from back cover. 20210518. Ship physicians Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Mail order brides Fiction. British Canada Fiction. Surgeons Fiction. Large type books. Christian Fiction. Romance fiction. . London (England) Fiction. British Columbia Fiction. Vancouver Island (B.C.) Fiction. Historical fiction. Religious fiction. The Bride Ships ; 1.