Wilderness Bride

A pair of reissued novels addresses diverse chapters in American history. First published in 1968, and based on true events in 19th-century Maryland, The Gold-lined Box by Marjory Hall finds 16-year-old Matilda O'Neill confronting the admiral of the British ship where her father is detained during the War of 1812. In the second, when in 1846 Mormon leader Brigham Young commands her father to fight in the Mexican War, headstrong Corey Tremaine finds herself an unwilling partner in an arranged marriage in Wilderness Bride by Annabel and Edgar Johnson, a story first published in 1963.