A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE - RUNAWAY BRIDE HISTORICAL ROMANCE Saucy cotton mill lass 1885. Too many men, too few women in sunny Western Australia. Sadie Briarshaw escapes her Lancashire cotton mill by agreeing to a marriage of convenience-she takes the bride ship to the British-ruled colony on the other side of the earth.

Rugged Scots-Aussie hero Entrepreneur Connach MacLeod thinks all women are the same, offering domestic and bedroom comforts. A bride ship woman will suit him fine. Born in Islay, Scotland, he has built an import-export empire thanks to whisky smuggling, illegal shipwreck hunting, and wool.

Banter and mayhem Sadie hesitates on the church steps on the day of their arranged marriage, then flees, causing scandal and uproar. Yet Connach has fallen hard for golden, unique Shipwreck Sadie. He vows to woo her and win her, while Sadie discovers how to employ her courage and talent for the good of her new colony-with the help of her rejected fianc?.