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When Mary Mitchell agrees to go on the Oregon Trail with her family, she certainly has ulterior motives. Believing that married women are no more than servants to men and children, she wants to get her own homestead, and Oregon is the place she can do just that. Her father discovers her plans, and he tells her she must marry one of the single men who are on the Trail with them, and she only has a week to decide who it will be. Bob Hastings is enamored of boyish Mary from the moment he meets her, and he continually asks her to dance with him when they have music nights on the trail. One ...

Finally, the caravan is finishing up their almost nine month journey and going home to Clover Creek. As they get close, Henrietta is filled with excitement. She knows she's going where she needs to be. Her pa and brothers are her responsibility, but she doesn't mind. It makes her feel good to do for others. The one thing in her life that bothers her was that the young man she's had her eye on since Independence, has yet to show any interest in her. After a few words from Henrietta's brother, Roy finally gets the courage up to ask Henrietta's father, the former captain of their company, if ...

Betsy Sanders loves her life. She has a wonderful and often boisterous family. She has a job for a man who makes her a bit crazy, but it’s good honest work, and she makes a decent wage. When a new man starts working for the auction house, she feels immediately drawn to him. Charles Brooks has been left with the burden of four younger siblings to raise. When he begins working for the local auction house, he’s interested in getting to know the young lady who works there better. He hires her to help him with his home and younger siblings in an attempt to draw closer to her. His siblings ...

Charlie Miller moved to Montana to help her friend Merry, and she did so happily, knowing there were more men than women in the west. She expected to meet someone and live happily ever after. When she’s still alone three years later, she seriously contemplates writing to her sister Elizabeth, hoping she’ll find a husband for her. A chance meeting with a stranger in a snowstorm changes all her plans. Abel Burton takes a chance and heads to Mistletoe, Montana, to meet a local artist. Meeting Charlie is just a side benefit—one that will change him forever. When he returns home, he takes ...

Alice Sanders feels as if love will never happen for her. She watches longingly as each of her sisters marries in turn. When her sister Ruby has a problem pregnancy, she agrees to help out in the store Ruby owns with her husband, Lewis. There she meets a handsome man she feels like she could care for, but his intentions are in question. Mark Brooks is struggling to find his way as he takes over the family business from his recently deceased uncle. His travel and work take him to Nowhere, Texas where he meets the beautiful Alice Sanders. For him, it’s love at first sight. When he makes an ...

When Theresa Sanders finds newborn twins abandoned on the steps of the schoolhouse, she begs her adoptive parents, Edna Petunia and Cletus, to give them a home. She agrees that all their care will be provided by her, but nurturing the twins night and day quickly turns into far more work than she can handle, even with help from her family. She loves them immediately and can’t bear the idea of losing them, though her parents think it’s time for her to find them more permanent homes. Cody Witherspoon is a traveling insurance man who never expected to come away from a sales visit with a ...

Charlotte, younger sister of the Earl of Stenwick, is tired of the endless round of parties that are part of the London Season, yet she wants to marry, so feels she has no choice. Her special abilities make her feel that most members of the ton are liars and unfit for anyone to live with. When she makes a wish on the fountain by the lake at her ancestral home, she laughs at herself, knowing it could never come true. Anthony never felt much for his first wife having only married her to please his parents and refill the family's coffers. During her life, he remained true to her in every way, ...

Crystal City, 1885. Sarah Lee Foster ama Texas con todo su corazón. Dirigir el rancho no es tarea fácil, pero el señor Foster no crio a una dama remilgada. La tejana es fuerte, es obstinada y se ve capaz de controlar a la veintena de hombres que trabajan para ella criando ganado. El amor parece haberle dado esquinazo y poco importa, porque después de haber entregado su corazón para perderlo para siempre, no desea más que atender sus tareas y obligaciones. Su vida es diferente, apetecible. No echa de menos los pomposos vestidos, porque los pantalones tejanos que usa son lo acertado ...

Beulah Wigg thinks her life is already as good as it’s going to get. An orphan, she teaches at the foundling home where she grew up, and she loves the challenge. When she finds out she has to leave the only home she’s ever known and marry so she can start a school of her own, she worries that she is not someone who should be married. She randomly chooses a man to correspond with and agrees to marry him immediately. When Jack McClain finds out his mother has requested a mail-order bride for him, he’s not sure if he should be relieved the problem has been taken out of his hands, or ...

El marquesado de Winchester exige deber y honor, a cambio otorga prosperidad. Los Winchester jamás se tuercen en el camino y se les distingue por su etiqueta y clase. Tristan Black, heredero del título, parece ser la excepción, porque cuando se es joven, y se busca aceptación desesperadamente, pueden suceder muchas cosas desagradables, más si se olvidan los principios que rigen a la familia. Y así será como un error cambiará todo el futuro del marqués de Winchester. Lo bueno que tiene el devenir de los años es que el pasado se queda atrás, las nuevas ilusiones renacen… pero las...

Jessica Sanderson knows what it means to love unconditionally. She has doted on the same man for over a decade, and she’s in her early twenties. When that man’s mother asks her to be her traveling companion, she gladly accepts. She doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life sitting in a bank, after all. When the plan changes to something a bit crazy, she drags her feet, but finally agrees, only to have her heart broken in two. Theodore Hughes remembers Jessica from when they were younger, but he hasn’t given her a second thought in years. When she comes to visit him as his ...

When Katie Gabriel lost her husband, and had to bury him on the Oregon Trail, she thought her life was over, but she knew she had to keep going, if only for her children. After her daughter fell into the North Platte River as they were crossing, and the most unlikely man in the entire company jumped in after her, she knew she had to keep the man alive. It was only natural for her to take care of him while he was ill and start feeding him and his children after he was well because he’d lost his wife on the trail as well. George Bedwell was no longer respected by the people of his wagon ...

After years of working in a textile mill in Massachusetts, Grace decides to follow the lead of her friends and go west as a mail-order bride. After posting an ad, she waits for an answer, hoping it will be the man of her dreams. When David “Jack” Smith sees the ad, he immediately writes to the woman who posted it, explaining that he is a farmer and would love to be her husband. Immediately Grace embarks on the journey of her lifetime to meet the man who has asked for her. When they meet, everything seems as if it will go smoothly until Grace realizes she’s married to a very stubborn ...

Penelope Brainerd left the antebellum south for a new adventure on the Oregon Trail against the advice of everyone who knew her. After her best friend—a slave—was sold to another family to keep the girls from being so close, she knew that she could never abide living with slavery. Determined to make it on her own, she is one of two unmarried women in her wagon train from Independence, Missouri to Oregon Territory. From their first day on the trail, Herbert Jensen has his eye on the beautiful Miss Brainerd. He watches her as she manages to weather the hardships of life on the trail after...

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...

Trudie Brown has a horrible secret, something that keeps her from being able to make friends along the Oregon Trail. When she starts cooking for a little girl and her widowed father, she has no intentions other than feeding them and helping them get to Oregon. The child, a gregarious social butterfly, believes right away her father should marry the woman cooking for them, but Trudie is certain it will never work, because she can tell no one about her past. Joseph Simmons has to do what he can to move on down the trail after losing his beloved wife. When his daughter, Emily, begs him night ...

This 1500 word prequel is what ties together the ground-breaking American Mail Order Bride books. The project includes fifty mail order bride books, one for each state, which will be released one per day from November 19th, 2015-January 7th, 2016. Roberta, manager of a garment factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts, finds a very large discrepancy between the amount of money on hand and the amount her books say she should have on hand. When she calls in the owner to talk to him about it, she knows immediately the discrepancy is caused by him. After the factory burns to the ground a short time ...

Julia Simmons had spent her entire life studying hard to become a teacher. Finally, she had her first assignment, in a small Texas town, and she was on her way. When the stagecoach dropped her off, the only man nearby kissed her, acting as if he'd been waiting for her. She couldn't seem to make him understand she wasn't his mail order bride. When she found herself married an hour later, she was clueless as to how to handle it. How would the school board react to having a married teacher? And more importantly, how would her new husband, Tom, react when his real mail order bride arrived in town?

When a strange purple-haired matchmaker starts coming to her book club meetings claiming she can grant wishes, Taylor takes her up on her offer and requests to be sent back to Regency, England. She goes to the next meeting completely prepared to go back in time, but she still isn’t quite convinced that is what will happen. Lord Harry Twig is amazed when he finds a beautiful woman lying on the grounds of his country estate. He’s excited to find out that she is a teacher and willing to be a governess for his sons. It doesn’t take him long to realize she’s the woman he needs in his ...

Prepare to be whisked away once more to the enchanting world of Harborview in "The Beacon of Love's Light." In this captivating tale, Elena, a hat maker whose vibrant spirit and boundless creativity are matched only by her passion for life falls for Jonathan, a man of quiet strength and unwavering determination whose gentle demeanor belies a heart as rich and warm as the sun-drenched shores of their beloved town. "The Beacon of Love's Light" is a tale of opposites attract, where Elena's effervescent energy meets Jonathan's steadfast resolve, creating a love story as timeless as the sea ...