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In order to escape the abusive life she has in North Carolina, Luella Carter decides to answer an advertisement for a mail-order bride. The gentleman who placed the ad claims to only want companionship and help around the house, and does not need love, children, or other wifely duties. This seems to suit Luella just fine, but when she arrives, she wonders if this was all a big mistake.

“The west is too wild for an unwed woman. If you want to ride on my wagon train and make it to Oregon, you’ll need to find yourself a husband.” THE RELUCTANT WAGON TRAIN BRIDE ~ Twenty brides find themselves in a compromising situation. They have to get married in order to travel to Oregon on their wagon train. Each story in the series is a clean, standalone romance. Will the bride end up falling in love with her reluctant husband? Or will she get an annulment when they reach Oregon? Each bride has a different story ~ Read each one and don’t miss out! A JOURNEY FOR LILY When Lily ...

This Christmas, love arrives unexpectedly in Idaho Springs—by stagecoach. December 1887 - When mail-order bride and nurse Gwendolyn Wright steps off the stagecoach, she expects a new beginning as bride to Idaho Springs’ handsome young doctor, Cecil Cody. But Dr. Cody seems oblivious to their matrimonial arrangement. As snow blankets the dusty streets this Christmas, Gwendolyn discovers more trouble than tidings in this untamed town. Suspicion and rumors plague her efforts to bring holiday spirit and health to the sick townspeople. The unlikely pair must learn to heal wounds and soften ...

“The west is too wild for an unwed woman. If you want to ride on my wagon train and make it to Oregon, you’ll need to find yourself a husband.” THE RELUCTANT WAGON TRAIN BRIDE ~ Twenty brides find themselves in a compromising situation – they have to get married in order to travel to Oregon on their wagon train. Each story in the series is a clean, standalone romance. Will the bride end up falling in love with their reluctant husband? Or will they get an annulment when they reach Oregon? Each bride has a different story ~ Read each one and don’t miss out! A JOURNEY FOR DOROTHY A ...

December 1867, Oklahoma A widower who doesn't want a wife, but needs one. A spinster who is forced to leave the only home she's ever known and go west. Can the two of them create a family and a home by Christmas?

The Matchmaker and the Mother-in-Law Series: Love blossoms for 16 beautiful brides and their charming grooms in this frontier romance series. Each bride must navigate the challenges of being matched with a groom-to-be in the Old west, but a formidable adversary is setting hurdles for each of them to overcome—a mother-in-law. Every book in this series is a standalone, sweet, clean, wholesome romance with surprises, difficulties, and a meddling mother who tests their commitment. Will love truly conquer all? Read every story to find out! Margaret’s Wedding Dilemma She’s fighting to save ...

Summer, 1881 When Margaret Thomas dared step out of line as a teacher at a prestigious girl's academy, her life falls apart. She has no prospects for further employment and no chance of marriage. She lost her family in a fire that left her scarred as a young child. Because she's prone to rash decisions, she decides on a whim to answer the advertisement for a mail-order bride in New Mexico Territory. Silas Coleman is an undertaker, shunned by the people of Fort Sumner. When his mother passes on, she leaves instructions with the reverend to advertise for a bride for her son. But the ...

A lonely and abused woman without a home. A marshal who is given the sudden responsibility of two children. A mail-order bride situation that has fallen to ruin. Can Lottie find a home and a family by Christmas?

THE MARSHAL’S MAIL ORDER BRIDE ~ Eight brides each find themselves in a compromising situation – and the only way out is to escape west and become a mail-order bride. But will trouble follow them? Good thing they are heading into the arms of a law man. All the brides have a different, stand alone story ~ Read each one and don’t miss out! With danger and redemption swirling around them, can a Christmas miracle be found in Virginia City? Schoolteacher Joy Stewart has never been lucky. Her father died before she was born. Her mother left her in the care of her grandmother so that she ...

He lived and breathed the Texas Ranger code - until one woman’s siren song called him to turn renegade and gamble all he had for a future with her. When Phineas Stockton leaves Boston where he was training for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, he returns to his hometown in San Marcos, Texas to find his brother has married and his mother has moved to a ranch of all places. But determined to make it on his own, he turns to his uncle and the Texas Rangers. While in training, he has a perilous encounter with the leader of the notorious Deadwood Gang, which forces him to make tough decisions. ...

Duty and destiny collide on the prairie when lone, bachelor bounty hunter, Silas Jones dared express interest in marriage at his family’s Thanksgiving. Then his mother and his sister each provide him with a bride at the same time! Two unknown brides for one baffled bounty hunter. But when a vindictive outlaw abducts them for profit, Silas discovers one woman’s bravery could capture his lonely heart. An unexpected choice. A defiant stand. The wild frontier will test them all.

This Christmas, love arrives unexpectedly in Douglas County—by stagecoach. December 1875 – A Christmas dress could bring things together...or tear them apart. When her world comes apart at the seams, Charlotte Dunn leaves Washington DC behind to become a mail-order bride in Douglas County, Colorado. Sheriff Simon Harris didn’t want a wife but can’t turn away the stunning dressmaker now that she’s here. As a deadly trap closes in around Simon, Charlotte’s courage is the only thing that can save her groom and their future. Will her talent with a needle be enough to tailor the ...

On the run from an abusive man and left in the family way, Collette needs to get out of Atlantic City as fast as she can. When someone suggests she answer an ad for a mail-order bride, she takes a chance and jumps on a train before even sending a response. But will time run out for her?

Brienne Walsh has resigned to life as a spinster and the lone heir to the Walsh Ranch upon her grandfather's death. She's always been too tall, too strong, and too unprepossessing to be appealing to any man. Yet when the bank calls on her grandfather's loan, telling her to either pay the full amount due by the end of the month, or marry, she is thrown into an arrangement she can't abide but must endure.

This Christmas, love arrives unexpectedly to Castle Rock—by stagecoach. December 1876 – Felix Spencer has inherited his family’s mercantile, but everyone knows he’s never really had much business sense. His sister is getting married and moving away but worries her brother won’t be able to run the store on his own, so she tells him that he should look for a new accountant and put an ad out. As a joke, his best friend contacts an agency for a mail order bride/accountant to come. Felix is expecting a man, but a woman shows up instead— Bethany Thomas. Bethany loves numbers and ...

Emma and Molly are in New York City for the fourth of July spending some bonding time with Emma’s new step-mother, Macy. For the holiday, both Colby and her father intend on joining them. When they meet up at a lovely restaurant near the park at Brooklyn Bridge, they are just enjoying their time together before the fireworks display that evening. But when a hostess screams inside for someone to call the police, everything turns upside down.

December 1880 Clara Gibbs has wished for nothing more than a husband and family, but not one bachelor in Norcross, Georgia had ever shown any interest in her until now. She had spent most of her youth taking care of her ailing father, only to find out upon his death that he was the very reason that every suitor had kept a distance from her. Now that she is twenty-five years old, the only one who shows her interest is an older bachelor with a known penchant for vice. Her only recourse is to start a new life out west… but sh has no reason to go unless she answers an advertisement for a mail...

It's New Year’s Eve, and 20-year-old Emma Wright has a date with her crush - well, not a real date, but she can dream! Colby Davidson, the K9 search and rescue deputy, is allowing her to accompany him while he’s on patrol at the Ridgeway Illumination Festival. Though they are just friends, she’s still hoping for a possible kiss at the end of the festivities. When a stranger asks them to help take some pictures at the event, Emma and Colby are happy to oblige. But their assistance turns them into alibis for the man’s whereabouts while his girlfriend was killed.

Mabel Brown has always been her father’s favorite daughter. She was the son he’d never had. So when he finds that he’s dying, he makes arrangements for each of his three daughters to marry, but struggles to find a good, godly man for Mabel until he virtually falls into Harper’s lap. Harper Jones has lived all his life as a trapper and mountain man near Fort Laramie. As half native Crow and half white man, he’s had a hard time fitting in with just about everyone. Gaining a wife is the furthest thing from his mind until Mr. Brown makes him an offer that’s hard to refuse. To keep ...

Can an invisible man find the love and acceptance that he's never had? As a halfbreed, Angus Macawi has never been accepted by his native tribe, or the townsfolk of Fort Pierre. He's lived on the outskirts both literally and figuratively. No one wants anything to do with him--he's invisible to everyone--until he meets Amelia Fletcher. This irksome female refuses to leave him alone, even though he does everything he can to stop her from visiting him, he can't help the feelings she's stirring within him. Would it be okay for him to feel hope for the first time?