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In 1878, 12-year-old Ida Kate moves to a Kansas homestead with her widowed father, where she and her new mail-order bride, whom she suspects is not her intended match, soon find themselves entangled in a mystery.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Kathryn Reiss
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