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Daniel grew up knowing his parents had met and married when his mother responded to a mail order bride request from his father. In his head, that's the perfect way to meet your future spouse. So, he follows in his father's footsteps. Are things the same in post World War I Minnesota as they were in 1880? Maggie lost her fiancé in the war, and nothing in her hometown feels right anymore. When she runs across an advertisement for a mail order bride, she can’t help but be intrigued.

This is the third story in the Parkside Christian Church Series. Kennedy and Anna were roommates in College, and Kennedy feels privileged to be part of her wedding. When the youth pastor of Parkside Christian Church takes a new job as a senior pastor for another church, his replacement makes Kennedy’s heart sing. Will the on-going problems of PCC keep them apart?

Sarah, Bride of Minnesota is #32 in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.Sarah, along with one-hundred other women, is out of a job thanks to a fire in the factory where she's worked since she left school. At loose ends, she decides to become a mail-order bride, moving to Minnesota to marry a man she's never met. She trusts God to guide her steps and send her to the man who is right for her, but when she meets the stubborn German, she has to wonder at His sense of humor. Karl, an immigrant who has fought hard to achieve everything he has in life, is startled when he ...

Patience is a schoolteacher on the Minnesota Prairie in 1893. She loves her job, but when she has to confront the single father of one of her students about his lack of interest in learning, she’s left feeling angry. When the two are stuck together in a freak snowstorm in the schoolhouse with Patience’s students, they each learn there’s a lot more to the other than meets the eye. This is the third book in the Homespun series.

Ashley, the new children’s minister at Parkside Community Church, loves her new job and her church family. When she talks to a small child her first night working for the church, she never expects the little girl will change her life forever. Widower, Larry Rome, has lived for his daughter for the two years since his wife died. Will he be able to get over the loss and move on with his life?

Mary is a single mom with three children under age eight. She’s not looking for love. All she wants is to get from one day to the next with happy healthy children. She catches her neighbor, Ken, mowing her lawn again, and invites him to dinner to thank him for all the help he’s given her in the year since her husband left. When Ken confesses that he’s been in love with her for five years, she has to decide if she can give him a chance to be a part of her life. Will she ever be able to trust again?

When World War II breaks out, Ken knows that for him the only right thing to do is enlist in the Air Corps. When his best friend and wingman is killed during their last flight of the war, Ken does as he’s promised and goes to check on his buddy’s wife and children. Realizing they have no way to support themselves, he proposes a platonic marriage so he can take care of them as he’s promised to do so many times. Can love grow from such a shallow beginning?

Beatrice was devastated to find herself completely alone after her fiancé married another woman. When a kindly woman from her church suggests she become a mail order bride for a young minister she knows, Beatrice jumps at the chance to start anew. Adam enjoys his work as a pastor in Argyle, Texas, but he feels very alone. When the opportunity comes for him to marry, he accepts nervously, not knowing what kind of woman he'll get. He trusts that God will make things work and send him a bride who will be everything he needs her to be. Will the two be able to find love with one another? Or ...

George has a hard time dealing with his farm and his four children after the death of his wife. When the ladies at his church raise money for a mail order bride for him, he doesn’t argue with them. He needs a caretaker for his family. Millie has a short time to find her own way in the world before she is kicked out of the orphanage where she was raised. George’s letter about his requirements for a bride fit in all ways but one. Will her lie keep them apart even after they’re married?

This is the sequel to Mail Order Millie. Charlotte has gotten too old to stay in the orphanage where she was raised, so when her friend Millie, a mail order bride, offers to let her come stay with her until after her baby is born, she accepts. A Minnesota farmer Millie knows pays for her fare with the understanding he will have a chance to court her after she arrives. Will Charlotte be able to deal with the hardships of 1880s Minnesota? Or will she turn tail and run back to Boston where things are familiar?

Donna's newly-minted degree in computer programming promises her the financial security she's craved since childhood. But when her car breaks down, her dreams are put on hold as she finds herself stranded in the small town of Hudspeth, Minnesota. Given a temporary home by her mechanic's parents, she's soon made a part of their large, welcoming family--including their son Paul, a pastor. The more Donna learns about God and His will, the more she questions everything she thought she wanted. But can she trust Paul ... and a promise of security that's for all eternity?

Ida Little, a nineteen year old woman from Dallas, has just been told she has seven months to leave her parents’ house and all she’s ever known. Her parents expect her to marry, but she’s so shy she can barely speak to a man she doesn’t know well. When Sally Jenkins approaches her at the mercantile where she works, she agrees to join Sally’s program for “mail order ministers” providing wives for ministers who have graduated from the seminary where her husband is president. Joshua Anderson is tired of being alone, but he’s even more tired of his church members trying to marry...

Alison had spent her entire life thinking the world revolved around her. Her antics finally forced her parents to send her to live with her sister and brother-in-law in Minnesota. At first, she can’t wait to go home to New York, but after she meets Frank, she decides Minnesota may be a good place to live after all. The problem is no one in Minnesota is willing to put up with her bad behavior. Can she make the changes she needs to make to be a good person? Or will she end up out in the cold for the rest of her life?

Anna is content with her life. She works as a kindergarten teacher for a local school, and gives as much of her time as she can to her church. The new pastor at her church has caused quite a stir among the single females, because not only is he a single pastor, but he’s a handsome single pastor. Anna knows she doesn’t have a shot with him. Or does she? This short story is meant as an introduction to the Parkside Community Church series. The main characters from this story continue through all five books as secondary characters and their characters are expanded on throughout the series. ...

Samuel, a lonely pastor in Paradise, Texas, writes to the president of the seminary he recently graduated from expressing his need for companionship. Just weeks later he receives a letter from the president's wife and a woman he's never met, informing him a bride has been found. Although uncertain whether he really wants to marry, he agrees, thinking she may be the one God has selected for him. He is hopeful that the woman will be the help-meet God has chosen to lift his lonely heart. When Kristen meets her future husband, Samuel, they both find the other lacking. Will they be able to get ...

This is the fifth and final story in the Parkside Community Church Series. Book one is available for free. Amy has only had one desire in her life. She wanted to be a mom. After eight years of marriage, she’s still childless. When her doctor informs her the only way she’ll ever have a child is to do in vitro fertilization, she must deal with the knowledge that she may never have a child of her own.

A good looking pastor takes over Parkside Community Church, and the whole congregation is changing. Follow the lives of Pastor Dan and Anna as they meet, get engaged and begin their lives together.