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Desperation is a poor foundation for marriage. Louisa Fay Denton is looking for a fresh start. After her fiance’s death in a Union prison camp, there are no prospects left for her in her little hometown. But with her father’s refusal to let her go West to be a mail-order bride, she will have to decide between family loyalties and making her own way in life. Running away in the dead of night is her only option. Starting a new life as a mountain man’s wife will be more difficult than she could have ever imagined. And her husband-to-be has an arrogant streak that will cost them both. ...

Ruby Williamson is struggling to get by on her failing farm and with a brother that won’t listen to sense. Haunted by a botched city job that went terribly wrong as well, Ruby makes a daring move to become a mail order bride. Fur trapper Travis Reed returns to the western town of Clear Hollow after the passing of his father so as to inherit the vast land and property. But he can’t transform the forested land into farmable land by himself and so he arranges to get married. After Ruby marries and moves in with Travis, the couple finds two runaway children who have been living and hiding ...

The cruel hands of the white man has driven her from everything she knows. Kimana is fighting for her life in the wilderness, a lone Shoshoni woman without hope. When she is set upon by cowboys who mean to take her virtue, she stumbles onto the Nez Perce Reservation. Without family or friends, she is forced to stay on the reservation and give up her freedom. Peace is short-lived when a group of Nez Perce men try to attack her. Her savior shows up in the nick of time, but the cost of defending herself has landed her in a precarious situation. Either she will marry, or be sent to a prison in ...

A life lost. A future uncertain. Following her father’s sudden death, dark-eyed beauty Ida Rose Lowry has few options on the table. For a woman of her status and education level in 1881 New York, it’s marry or work in a factory. Unfortunately, the number of men beating down Ida Rose’s door amounts to zero. Taking off for Wyoming Territory, and for a new life as a mail-order bride, Ida Rose quickly finds herself pulled into a fast world full of natural disasters, bandits, and family secrets. There is one shining light amidst the darkness – Thomas Adkins, the sandy-haired farmer who ...

Clara Beaufort’s journey from England to America is supposed to be an adventure, but it’s quickly becoming a nightmare. Alone with her infant nephew, Clara finds herself destitute and desperate. With no options left, she takes a leap of faith and answers a mail order bride ad, hoping to find a fresh start in the rugged Colorado mountains. The reality is far from her dreams of city lights. Adam Faulkner, the man she is supposed to marry, has no idea who she is. His father orchestrated this unconventional match without bothering to inform anyone. Perhaps worse, Adam is grappling with ...

It’s hard keeping secrets from your husband, but harder keeping from your wife. Caitlin Faulkner is a changed woman. She is no longer the naïve, stubborn girl who arrived on the American frontier with her older sister. Caitlin is now a confident, intelligent woman who can hold her own with anything that is thrown at her. Well, almost anything. When Colby Kuhn, a shop owner from a fledgling town, begins to stir strange feelings within her, Caitlin is confronted by her traumatized first love. Colby himself hides an unsavoury past. An uneasy past coming back to haunt Colby, and Caitlin as ...

A sad twist of fate leaves her blind and desperate for a new start. Emily Stewart, a widow and blind woman who has a six-year-old son, agrees to be a mail order bride, only to realize that her intended husband is killed in a fire just days before she arrives out West. Benjamin Hart is reeling after the death of his brother. And Benjamin has to wonder why his deceased brother never tells him about his bride from back East. Benjamin has long dreamed of leaving the dullness of farm life behind and seeking adventure. Especially now that the gold rush has begun, he is eager to sell and be done ...

Mail order brides don’t expect to find love… but sometimes they get lucky. Mary Jean has a secret. She’s been in love with Jasper since she was thirteen. Too bad he was twenty-four Too bad he never gave her the time of day. Their age difference never mattered. At least not to her. Especially when she saw him risk his life for their neighbor just to have justice served. But eleven years between them isn’t easy to overcome. Until now. Ten years later, and MJ needs a husband. Desperate to care for her aging grandmother, she needs money and a place to live. Fast. This time, Jasper ...

A life of practicality and security. That is all Philadelphia maid Kitty Byrum and western lawman Cyrus Ross both look for. With that in mind, a mail-order bride marriage fits the bill perfectly. Cyrus will provide a home for Kitty and her younger sister Helen, and, in return, Kitty will perform all expected wifely duties. They see their marriage as a contract – love not being a requirement. They are not looking for a fairy tale love life. But even then, life does not always unfold according to one’s simple wishes… As the train the Byrum sisters travel westward on comes to a ...

What can a spinster mail order bride hope for? Plenty of luck. An unlucky Vivian Reed ends up in a strange town after the mail order bride agency fumbled with its paperwork. David Black, the man who shows up to get Vivian, is not her intended husband. David wants to fulfill her ailing mother’s dream of seeing grandchildren filling the house before she passes on. And David’s ‘perfect match’ is supposed to arrive as he has corresponded with a woman who has three children. Instead, the mail order bride Vivian has no children, is a spinster and totally mismatched by the agency. Now, ...

How will an Irish mail order bride fit in? Earn it. Lorna Faulkner never imagined that she would have to leave her beloved Ireland. But she is forced to pack up her things and take her little sister, Caitlin, across the sea to the land that has already opened its arms to so many of her people: America. When they arrive, however, they find themselves to be less accepted than they had expected. Engaged as a mail order bride to the handsome Peter Andrews, Lorna and Peter see their lives grow together in strange and expected ways. More so when Peter’s difficult past comes to light. With the ...

His love is held back by guilt. Her happiness hinges on her courage to forgive. Cindy Winters is suddenly left homeless and alone following her father’s sudden accidental death from a cattle stampede. Clinging on to hope, Cindy seeks out a new life as a mail order bride out west in Wyoming. The town of Cistern sits almost in the shadow of the wild and wonderous mountains of the Wyoming territory. In it, waits the graying and gentle farmer Robert McGinty. After he and Cindy are married, however, Robert’s falls ill and passes shortly after. Now, Cindy has to either abandon her new ...

A mail order bride who refuses to give in to despair heads further down the pit of despair. Annabelle Buckley suddenly finds herself widowed after the passing of her villainous, abusive husband. She’s free from abuse. But she’s unwanted. When a weaker woman might have given up, Annabelle decides to do the unimaginable. Be a mail order bride. But what decent man would want her? A man who needs help. Brett Tucker is working hard to have his own ranch, and fighting against the unseen demons of his past. He thought the arrival of Annabelle would ease his struggles, until Annabelle’s ...

Betty “Blue” Yates has single-handedly run the Clear Hollow saloon for the past ten years. But times are changing fast. Her elderly mother has passed away, leaving her truly alone for the first time. Named Blue for her prematurely silver hair, and already considered a spinster by most, Blue has never seen herself as marriage material. Meanwhile, at the foot of the mountain ranges outside Clear Hollow, rumors spread of gold being found in the rivers. The town is flooded with people chasing fortune. One of them is Thomas Harper, a young man come looking for gold and adventure. Looking for...

A journey into the unknown is a journey to become a mail order bride. Margaret Leeds has no idea what a mail order bride is before her stepfather informs her that she is to leave for Colorado territory to marry a stranger. On her stepfather’s insistence that Margaret leave the house and stop draining the family’s resources, Margaret embarks on a long and grueling journey into the west to marry an unknown man. There’s a problem, however. The man is already married. Now, Margaret finds herself stranded in a small town of Stillwater, and her permanent limp leaves her struggling to find ...

The only thing harder than being a saloon girl is finding true love as a mail order bride. Jane Thompson suddenly finds herself a widow after her abusive husband passes away. With no way to support herself, she is forced to advertise with a mail order bride catalogue, agreeing to move out to Wyoming to marry a farmer who proposes a home and a peaceful life. But what seems like a blessing at first becomes a nightmare. There is no husband in waiting. Instead, Jane is forced to work as a saloon girl… for the slimy Mr. Cox. Widower Adam Keen is a man who has condemned himself to an uneventful...

In the Wild West, passion and peril ride side by side. Catherine Davis, burdened by her parents’ tragic deaths and an impending marriage to an abusive man, has nothing left to lose. When an advertisement for a mail order bride offers a glimmer of hope, she seizes control of her own destiny by embarking on a journey through the sprawling and untamed landscape of the American frontier. Little does Catherine know that her path will lead her to a kind and enigmatic man in California. James Wilson, seeking solace from his dark past, views his newlywed wife as an opportunity for redemption and ...

When things go wrong in the Old West, you can neither run nor hide. Ninovan has only one desire: to survive. Her loved ones are dead and her home is in ashes. But she must live in order to carry on the stories of those who have fallen at the hands of the frontier solders. And Ninovan learns that in order to survive, she must make a terrifying choice: become an Indian mail order bride. A pregnant Indian mail order bride, to be exact. Todd, a blacksmith residing in the small mountain town in Colorado, lost his wife in childbirth and though he wants to remarry, he never wants to have children....

Melissa has a secret. One that no one can find out, because if they do, her one chance at freedom is over. Matt has a burning heart. One that’s ready to accept a woman into his life. He’ll do anything for the east coast girl who is to be his Wyoming bride—that is, until she hurts him and he’s left with his head spinning and his soul aching. When Shallow Springs’ latest mail-order bride arrives in town, everything seems normal at first. But as cracks show in her story, it’s only a matter of time before the truth breaks free. Melissa isn’t who she says she is, and her story ...

Sarah Smith is a woman out of options. So she turns to being a mail order bride. When a small town welcomes Sarah into its midst, she realizes that her hopes for a happy and normal life are far out of reach. Sarah discovers that she has a serious condition: face blindness. She finds it hard to recognize anyone, and her condition is driving her far from those she loves. Sarah’s adversity is further tested when she gets to know her husband-to-be Stephen Tyler, a pastor expecting perfection out of himself. When they got married, Stephen realizes that his hope for a harmonious lifestyle may ...