12 Brides of Christmas – Book 5 (Barbour, November 2014)
How will an 1870’s “grasshopper” fiddler earn enough money to win the hand of a shopkeeper’s bagpipe-playing daughter?
Ewan Murray has loved Kate McDougall their whole music-playing lives on the Nebraska prairie. When Kate puts up her hair, he realizes the time has come to put in his claim for her hand—but her thrifty mercantile owner father challenges him to prove himself capable of supporting her. He demonstrates his ability to teach and the connection of math to music as he takes over the school and helps Kate’s brother learn to cipher. But it’s in the refurbishment of a family heirloom and his and Kate’s love of music that finally allows eleven young pipers and a bagpipe, to earn them a Yuletide wedding.
You can read more about The Yuletide Bride, the backstory and what went into writing it–along with a video of Michelle playing the bagpipes–here.
