title: Clementine Rose and the Wedding Wobbles
author: Jacqueline Harvey
description: <div><B>Jacqueline Harvey </B>is the author of the Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose series. Her first picture book, <I>The Sound of the Sea</I>, was awarded Honour Book in the 2006 CBC Awards.</div>
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  # Promised Sunset
  
  
  
  
  
  ### California Historical Mail Order Bride Romance Series Book 5
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### KATIE WYATT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “What do you mean?” Benjamin asked, confused, as his bride-to-be stood in
  front of him, a regretful expression on her face.
  
  
  “I just need a little more money to get my parents to come here and attend our
  wedding,” Rose pleaded, just as Benjamin frowned.
  
  
  “But you told me that your parents didn’t want to even talk to you,” Benjamin
  pointed out. In the ten years since he had moved to the West, he had
  progressed from a hungry and poor young man to the biggest landowner in
  Sacramento, loaning people his land for them to cultivate. All those years of
  meeting and judging new people had sharpened his senses to a point where he
  could judge people from the expressions on their faces and right then, the
  expression on Rose’s face made him a little uneasy.
  
  
  “I did say tha