She mixed danger, desperation, and deception together. Love was not the expected outcome.
With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother’s unfortunate choice in husband until they discovered his plans to marry each of them off to his lecherous friends. Now they must run away–far and fast–to find better matches to legally claim their portion of their father’s lumber dynasty and seize control from their stepfather.
During their escape, Laura befriends a mission group heading to serve the poor in California. She quickly volunteers herself and her sisters to join their efforts. Despite the settlement being in miserable condition, the sisters are excited by the opportunity to put their skills to good use. Laura also sees potential in Caleb, the mission’s parson, to help with gaining her inheritance. But when secrets buried in Caleb’s past and in the land around them come to light, it’ll take all the smarts the sisters have to keep trouble at bay.
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Summary
The Element of Love by Mary Connealy is the first in a new series; The Lumber Baron’s Daughters. I love it when the women in the stories are intelligent. Laura and her two sisters have engineering minds, are well educated and were trained to take over their family business. However their mom has remarried a scoundrel who is trying to marry them off to his friends to get their money.
The girls have to marry to get their inheritance. So they run away to find husbands on their own and to escape their stepfather. Laura sees potential in Parson Caleb. Laura is the youngest of the sisters. She is a chemical engineer with special training in dynamite.
Each book in the series will focus on one of the sisters.