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Jane Candia Coleman is a natural storyteller whose characters come from the lands between the southwestern valleys of Arizona and the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. The night Billy the Kid died is hauntingly depicted in "Corrido for Billy". "Lady Flo" is a memoir, based on historical fact, of the black wife of an Irish nobleman. "Moving On" depicts a young girl abandoned by her family who finds her way with an itinerant Jewish peddler. And "Are You Coming Back, Phin Montana?" is the winner of the 1995 Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction.

Becky, a widow who was abused by her former husband, is weary of love. Luke, a cowboy from Texas is seeking a love that he once had. He is a God-fearing man who lost his wife and children in a wagon accident years ago. They have both grown accustomed to their lonely lifestyles and lack of companionship. God begins to work through them, and leads them to begin a correspondence via a mail order bride advertisement.

Oregon Trail Journey after The Civil War, is the story of a southern woman and her older brother, striking out for the West to escape the hardships of the South after the Civil War. She didn't want to leave her home but not wanting to be left isolated, she went with him. The wagon train along the Oregon Trail is led by a seasoned veteran of the War, on the opposite side. Romance develops but the brother is still bitter about the south losing the war.

Mail Order Bride: Two Sisters and the Family Quilt Go West for Love is the story of two sisters sent by their parents to California, where one is to be a mail order bride. On the train journey they meet two men who seem strangely familiar and along the way, grow to like them. The one intended mail order bride fights her feelings, knowing that she is to be married as soon as she gets to the west coast, but it is very hard when the handsome stranger seems to be interested in her, as well.

"Amanda and Cecil Get the Boot" is about a young man who takes the bullet for an older man and becomes paralyzed. "Mail Order Bride: A Little Child Shall Lead Her" is about a widower who was left with a traumatized daughter who cannot see, hear or speak. "The Western Mail Order: Garret and Meredith": In Montana's Bitterroot Foothills, is the story of a horse rancher who desires a life full of love and marriage, but he is at a loss as to where to find a potential bride.

Losing his wife years, Wes begins to think he will not find a woman to love or take care of his children. God soon compels him to place an advertisement for a mail order bride, which Amish widow Hannah responds to. Wes is a strong, God-fearing Christian man. They begin a correspondence and feel God’s love emanating through their letters to one another.

A Widow & Her Rival, is about a young, pregnant widow of a soldier killed during the civil war. While she doesn’t really need a job, she takes one as a housekeeper for a single man, and he and his three children hit it off, but not in a romantic way. While Abby is on maternity leave, he sends for a mail order bride and along with an attractive woman, he gets far more than he ever bargained for.

This collection contains the four Christian Western Romance audiobooks, including Mail Order Bride: Jasmine’s Lonely Cowboy, an emotional story about a lonely man with children who sends away for a mail order bride, and in return, gets so much more than he expected. Mail Order Bride: Sent by God to the California Cowboy is about a young woman in New York City who has fallen onto hard times after being released from the orphanage she’d been in for a majority of her life.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Garret and Meredith in Montana's Bitterroot Foothills, is the story of a horse rancher who desires a life full of love and marriage, but he is at a loss as to where to find a potential bride. He admires the tough women around him, yet wants a woman from the city. By chance, he's at the telegraph office and gets a letter from a relative back east, wanting to visit, along with her husband and a young woman.

Mail Order Bride: Emma's Temptation: A Western Historical Christian Romance Story tells the story of Emma taking a leap of faith by responding to a mail-order bride advertisement. Her original motive: financial security to assist her struggling younger siblings. While meeting her cowboy suitor, she begins to genuinely fall in love with the Christian man. She soon meets a rival ranch owner of her cowboy who presents an offer to make her wealthy. The only problem; it involves betraying the trust of her soon-to-be husband.

Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way, she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child. After finally arriving at her cowboy's ranch, she falls for the handsome man but knows she must soon reveal her unfortunate circumstance.

Tyvian Reldamar — criminal mastermind, rogue mage, and smuggler of sorcerous goods — has just been betrayed by his longtime partner and left for dead in a freezing river. To add insult to injury, his mysterious rescuer took it upon himself to affix Tyvian with an iron ring that prevents the wearer from any evildoing.

Mail Order Bride: Cowboy Father Finds Beauty Within Her Scarred Body tells the story of God bringing two people together and finding the true definition of love in 1867. Susan, a beautiful daughter to a preacher from California, begins to think she will never find a suitable husband. The men in her town are either all taken or are not of the church. While at a store, she reads a magazine advertisement from a man in California, Gabriel, seeking a "mail order bride".

Saving Lonely Crippled Thomas: Thomas lives virtually alone in his house in Pennsylvania, with only his cousin to look after him. His legs were damaged in a railway accident and the only way he can get around his house is by crawling, or by means of an awkward chaise lounge prototype wheelchair that his cousin pushes. He loses his faith and reads only controversial books.

Mail Order Lottery: Ruth Takes a Chance is about an independent woman from New York who wants more than anything to move out west, become a ranch hand, and earn enough money to buy her own farm. She corresponds privately with a man who explains that she could join him at a lottery mixer put on by a company who arranges marriages, but that they would have an advantage in that he could let her know who he was, and with any luck at all they would be matched up.

The Presence of God is of vital importance in our relationship with God; for it is the highest point in our Christian experience! His Presence makes all the difference, for with it; we can overcome anything, face difficult situations with ease, and walk the most dangerous paths of life without fear! The author helps you to discover how you can position yourself to become a carrier of God's Divine Presence and to manifest His Presence every day.

Is He a Mail Order Husband Sent by God?: June Finds Rico on the Prairie is about the oldest of six children who, with their mother in frail health and their father gone for weeks, finds a severely wounded man on the prairie as she takes her normal early morning ride. With the help of her siblings and mother, June manages to get him back to their ranch to try to heal him. As the time when her father is to return approaches, all wonder what will be thought of the man who June has grown fond of, and if he will be allowed to stay a while longer.

This novelette by Vanessa Carvo contains powerful Christian influences, love, family and other related themes meant to make you smile! Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Gold of a Different Kind, is about one young woman forced into prostitution, along with her sister, and how she was saved by a lonely preacher in Montana who wanted nothing more than a wife to love and cherish. Without his help they would both have more than likely died. Little does he know that when beautiful Rachel arrives on the train and he sees her for the first time, how many more lives are both saved and loved, and how their eventual union will change their town forever.

Mail Order Bride: The Widow Turns The Montana Rancher’s Hardened Heart, presents the story of a widow with a new baby decides to leave her small town and travel to Montana to be the wife of a Montana man she has never met. Her three children in tow, two of which are twin freed slaves, she immediately runs into a heap of trouble as soon as she arrives; meeting the rancher and his bitter son.