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Patience Graham has always been a good, obedient daughter. When she is rescued from the storeroom at her parents’ restaurant by the young man she’s been eyeing for months, she is thrilled to find out he wants to court her. When she finds out he has had a drinking problem in the past, she decides to be cautious until he can prove himself to her and her parents. John Jackson has had feelings for Patience Graham from the first moment he saw her in church months ago. Now that it’s apparent she shares those feelings, he sets out to win over her parents, so they can court. His past seems to...

In this novella Best friends, Kyla and Erik, have sat together on the bus every day for their four years of high school. A week before graduation, Erik talks Kyla into making a deal with him to agree that if they are both virgins at the time of college graduation, they will take care of their "problem" with each other. Will they actually go through with it? Will they even like each other in four years?

Four books from the incredibly popular River's End Ranch series of sweet contemporary western romances. This box set contains: Short-Order Sheriff: When Kelsi Weston's long-term boyfriend dumps her and leaves town, sheriff Shane Clapper, who has had a crush on her for years, happily takes his place in her life. What could go wrong? Ranch's Retreat: When a girl from Texas goes to Idaho for a writer's retreat, wanting nothing more than to finish a book, what could possibly happy other than falling in love with one of the ranch's horse whisperers? Bridget's Beau: Nurse, Bridget Taylor, is set ...

This volume contains three distinct novellas that have been published before. The novellas included are: All For Emma, Making Deals and Making Me Believe all written by Kirsten Osbourne. If you are new to Kirsten’s work, this is a great way to purchase her first three books at a discount.

After helping countless women find suitable husbands, Harriett is embarking on her own mail-order bride journey, to marry a man whose sister has eight lovely daughters of her own. Her new husband seems to care for her, but doesn't understand Harriett's attachment to her faithful butler Higgins. Will she find herself in another bad marriage, or is this, at long last, her own happily ever after?

Brenda Brown is one of the few lucky girls from the foundling home where she was raised. She has a good job taking care of three children she truly cares for, and she doesn’t have to live in the cramped orphanage. But she longs for more. When she hears of an opportunity to go west and be introduced to eligible men, she knows she has to jump at the chance. Seth Clinkinbeard loves his ranch. It’s his heritage, and he cares about nothing more than working it and helping it grow into a huge empire. But when he gets the opportunity to meet single women from back east, he jumps at the chance....

Needing to escape her mother’s world of constant dances to find her a husband, Ada Applebottom reaches out to a friend who helps people travel west as mail-order brides. All Ada wants from life is to be a farmer or rancher’s wife. She knows that’s the exact opposite of what her mother wants for her, and she can’t let her mother force her into a life that she has no desire to live. With Elizabeth Tandy’s help, she heads west to marry a rancher. Wade Kelso loves ranching, but he knows something is missing from his life. He writes a letter to a matchmaker, hoping to find just the ...

Amy Brown has spent her entire life in a foundling home, from being left there shortly after she was born, and now working there to help the matron. But what she really wants from life is a family of her own. When she overhears a conversation in the home, she feels that this might just be her chance at love. Timothy Stockwell lost the love of his life, and now he’s faced with raising four children on his own. As a rancher in 1898 Texas, raising children isn’t as easy as he would like it to be. He both hated to cook, and he was terrible at it. When he’s told about an opportunity to ...

Since Bridget Mitchell was two, it was just her and her father. As her father nears the end of his life, she has no idea what she will do after his death. All that she knows for certain is that she cannot live in the house she’s always been in. When Elizabeth Tandy comes into the post office where Bridget works, she tells her to come see her because she has a letter she believes was written just for Bridget—a letter to become a mail-order bride. Felix Potter is obsessed with getting married. He sends off for a mail-order bride, fully expecting the woman to be ugly as a toad when she ...

Becky Brown knew she’d made a mess of her life. Eight months pregnant, and her fiancé has been dead for almost that long. After her parents kick her out, she moves into a boarding house and helps the kindly woman there with chores for half her rent. She wants what’s best for her baby, but how on earth is she supposed to provide it? When handsome stranger, Amos Bowen, shows up at the boarding house and asks her to marry him, her first instinct is to tell him he’s lost his mind. Instead, she finds herself married to him three days later. Can this couple survive the bitterness of her ...

This box set includes the first four books in the bestselling Brides of Beckham Series by Kirsten Osbourne. Included are: Mail Order Mayhem, Mail Order Mama, Mail Order Madness and Mail Order Mix-up. Harriett Long, a widow in Beckham, Massachusetts, begins her journey as a matchmaker by matching up four brides with grooms in the West. Follow her and her butler, Higgins, as they give desperate women their happily ever afters. Mail Order Mayhem When Maude is told she must marry a repulsive man, she instead responds to an Iowa farmer who is looking for a mail order bride. After sneaking out of...

Heather McClain has a secret. As she goes about her daily life of teaching dance to the young ladies of Bagley, Texas, she worries about what will happen if people find out. When she goes to grab some tacos for lunch, she runs into a man who she immediately knows is meant to be the man she spends her life with. While Michael Muir is visiting Texas to buy a bull for his ranch, he stops for lunch and his entire world changes. When he spots Heather in the same line he’s in, he knows he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Will he be able to convince her to alter the entire course of...

Caroline Casey is a romantic in a world of realists. When she decides to leave her privileged upbringing to become a mail-order bride, everyone she knows is surprised, but she is convinced she can make a difference and find true love out west. There are two motherless girls who need her and her special brand of loving everyone around her to make their lives complete. Andrew Dawson is mortified when yet another housekeeper leaves thanks to his daughters’ abhorrent behavior. When the domestic agency he uses refuses to send another housekeeper, he sends for a mail-order bride, expecting her ...

Sinead Williams is frustrated with the lack of opportunity for her. She’s a fully qualified doctor, but no one wants to see a woman doctor. When the opportunity presents itself for her to go West to a community where she may be of help, she jumps on it. It doesn’t matter to her at all that she has to marry a Mountie as part of the process. Matthew Montgomery knows exactly what he wants in a wife. He needs a woman who enjoys being at home and keeping house—someone who will have dinner on the table when he gets home every night. As soon as Sinead steps off the train, he knows she’s ...

Rosie Winslow has always tried to look at the bright side of things. When her mother died, even though she knew she would miss her mother terribly, Rosie was relieved because it meant she and her sisters could escape their abusive father. When she and her sisters decide to go west as mail-order brides, she is thrilled to meet her handsome husband, the mayor of Hope Springs. Charles Jordan has been married before, and he doesn’t want this marriage to be anything like his first. Having been married to a controlling woman, he wants this marriage to be more equitable. He spots Rosie, and when...

Tracy McClain has spent years working toward one goal and one goal only. She wants to open an Irish pub in her hometown of Bagley, Texas. When her old high school friend—and secret crush—walk into the car dealership where she works, she needs to decide if there’s room for him in her life or if she’s too busy. Steve Langley is annoyed that his workday is interrupted by a truck that’s not working right, so he goes to buy a new one where his family has always purchased vehicles and runs into Tracy, the girl that got away. As they renew their friendship, he begins to hope for more ...

Minnie has been in love with the same man since she was old enough to squirt glue all over him, but for some absurd reason, he runs the other way when he sees her come toward him. When she happens upon him at her job, she tells him he’s afraid of her and all but dares him to go out with her. A double date with her best friend—his sister Athena—takes them into uncharted territory. Don Weston has intense feelings for the last woman in the world he wants to marry. Minnie is nice enough, but she’s way too much like his sister for things to be able to work out between them. When he ...

Felicity Quinlan has always felt like the odd duck. She was raised in a family who didn’t allow her to do much of anything, and her personality has always been suppressed. When she moves to Culpepper, Wyoming, she watches her cousins and sister fall in love one by one, until she is the last Quinlan standing. She hopes she’ll eventually find love, but for now she’s too busy working in the bakery she started with her sister and cousin. When Allen Jennings loses his first wife to one of the cursed underwear models that plagues Culpepper, he’s certain there’s something wrong. He ...

When Emily's mother decides to marry, her fiance says that 20-year-old Emily needs to find a new place to live before the wedding. Emily has always been exceedingly shy and has no idea what to do. She runs across an advertisement for mail order brides and responds, hoping to find a good situation. Benjamin lost the love of his life just months before. He and his girls need a new mama in their house. Will Emily be the mama they need?

When Maude is told she must marry a repulsive man, she instead responds to an Iowa farmer who is looking for a mail order bride. After sneaking out of town on a train, she goes to Iowa and marries. She quickly falls for the wonderful man she marries, but does he feel the same? And will she be able to escape her past?