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Theresa Graham has always known that her parents want her to get married. But she’s never been entirely sure what she wants out of her life. All she knows as her twenty-first birthday approaches is that she doesn’t want to marry any man her parents approve of. Yet. She wants to have a career and see what she can do first. And it looks as though she might be able to do it. Her parents want her out of the house by her twenty-first birthday and preferably married. She plans to go to a boardinghouse and work first. Gideon Holland runs an inn in Riverton, Washington. He’s lonely and ...

Orphaned Victoria Medford spent years on the streets of New York City until her thieving ways caught up with her. Arrested for stealing from churches, she served her sentence and tried to start a new life, but with her tainted past, she sees little hope for a promising future. Jed Tyree is a minister in a small Idaho town. He’d love to find a wife, but women are scarce, and no one lives up to his expectations for a minister’s wife. The deacons in his church take matters into their own hands and place an ad on his behalf in The Matrimonial Times, determined to find their preacher a mail-...

Amelia Ross has had a tough time finding a husband in her hometown of Boston. She believes she is very beautiful except for the jagged scar on her face. Is there any way for Amelia to stop obsessing about the scar? And most of the men in Boston that her parents are introducing her to believe that they're above reproach because of their social status. When she is given a suggestion to become a mail-order bride, she at first recoils from it. What can Amelia do to increase her social status? There are stigmas to doing it, after all. What would people believe was wrong with her if she went that...

Jennie Stone and her siblings have never entirely seen eye to eye on how to live their lives. Her brother wants her to stay in town and get married properly, while her sister believes that everyone should be able to do as they please. And Jennie? Well, Jennie has no desire to get married in town. When an opportunity to find a husband through the Matrimonial Times is presented to her, Jennie takes it in stride. She wants adventure. That's the main reason she doesn’t want to marry in a big town. All the men are too boring – priests, pastors, businessmen, that kind of career. No place to ...

Mary Smith was unknowingly sold by her parents into a marriage that she was not willing to agree to. Jackson Peter's parents were tired of him focusing on his cowboy ways and wanted more grandchildren. Jackson wasn't ready, but his parents made a bargain with Mr. Smith, and now Jackson was set to marry someone he didn't even know. When they meet, they discover they have more in common, and he hatches a plan for them to run from the ceremony. Can they get away from their parents, or will they be caught? How will they live their lives on the run? Will they be able to settle down? Read "The ...

Paulina Black has struggled with the feelings that come with being a widow for the entirety of the year she's mourned her husband. Going by her maiden name has helped a little, but it doesn't fill the hole in her heart. Now that her year of mourning is done, she is not sure how to go about with life. She thought she'd have a family by now. Without a husband, she's not sure how she'll accomplish that. And she's not ready to put herself back out into society in a courting capacity. Eugene Richardson has been yearning for a family since he moved south of San Francisco for mining work. His ...

After some bad choices, Sophia Mason finds herself pregnant. Out of wedlock, no less! As one of two daughters of one of the wealthiest families in Charleston, this is a horrid stain on her reputation. When the child's father finds out she's pregnant, he refuses to marry her and set things right. Unless she can do something, her parents are determined to send her child away so that she can marry the man who got her pregnant and set her reputation right, hopefully, without much blowback on themselves. Peter Harrington lost his pregnant wife a few years ago. It had been a horrible time in his ...

When Elizabeth Shaffer’s family came to the United States from Britain, she hadn’t expected to grow up to be struggling to find love. Her father, a cobbler in Washington, D.C., is as successful as he can manage alone. Elizabeth helps, but her father never puts his business above their happiness – which is more than she can say for some people in Washington, D.C. Westley Anderson is a judge for a small town in California. He put an ad out in The Matrimonial Times to find a wife before he moved to California, but it hasn’t gone well so far. Most women are searching to get away from a ...

Maggie Witherspoon thought she had it all. She’d had a wonderful engagement, and with the wedding only two days away, she couldn’t wait. All of that excitement comes to naught when she finds her fiancé and her best friend kissing inappropriately in an alleyway. Heartbroken, she races home for support. In the aftermath, she and her Aunt Margaret decide that the best thing to do now is find a man outside New York City to marry. She eventually writes to a man named Nathaniel “Nate” Josephs in a small town in Colorado. He has specifically requested a young Christian woman who hasn’t ...

Molly Anderson carries a secret, but one she can’t hide for long. Her sister suggests a way out…an arranged marriage to a man she has never met, but who can offer her a new home far from the shame and suffering of her home in New York. Forced by her father to state that she is a widow instead of pregnant out of wedlock, as well as to marry someone of his choosing, any hope of future happiness seems futile. Dr. Caleb Evans lost his beloved wife in childbirth and is left with three small but rowdy boys to raise alone. When a series of caregivers proves unsatisfactory, he looks for a more ...

Catherine Burnett grew up with a pretty privileged life on the East Coast. Her father was a well-known businessman who had an acumen for the day-to-day trades that needed to happen. Unfortunately, he made a few trades that ended horribly. This lands the family in horrible debt, and Catherine has to work for the first time in her life in a job that isn’t just moving papers from office to office. However, when a solution is presented, she learns it would inevitably kill her dreams of traveling. That’s not what she wants at all. So, she decides to make her own solution. Isaiah Holbrook is ...

Isabella Bryant’s family has struggled to feed everyone for many years. Having had six children, her mother and father had worked hard all of her life. When they give her two years to marry and move out, Isabella’s up for the challenge. She just hadn’t found time to court someone properly yet because of her work as a nurse. Caleb Robbins owns a mine in San Francisco. He’s looking for a wife to help him out around the house, and he wants to find a woman who will give him love. He wants a loving life. When Isabella responds to his ad in The Matrimonial Times, he’s intrigued because ...

Amelia Jenkins struggles to understand why her father has been picking suitors who look quite handsome, but have nothing underneath that to facilitate a courtship. She wants to marry for love and passion, not because the man looks good. However, it seems men who look good are the only suitors left in Boston for a woman of twenty-one years of age. Amelia refuses to marry someone she cannot carry a conversation with. Ethan Wyman lost his wife in childbirth. With his child now a year old, he decides that it's time to find someone else to help him around the ranch. Especially so that his son ...

Josephine Taylor has a well-paying job as a reporter in New York City. She loves every minute of it – the action, the adventure, and the fact that it has allowed her to focus on marriage for love instead of keeping herself off the streets. She's had no luck with marriage, and that's all right with her. Until she overhears something outside Tammany Hall about fixing an election and decides to print a story about it. When the story breaks, she starts getting afraid of everything. With a threat against her life, she must flee. In Boston, she searches for a job and a husband when that fails. ...