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Lonely, heartbroken, and determined to leave tragedy behind, Clarabelle Demont packs up her belongings and travels west to Montana. There, she stays with her brother, Stuart, her only living relative, who works as foreman on Circle Moss Ranch in Fort Riggins, Montana.

Laura Willard has a problem. Her father is marrying her off to the highest bidder for his personal gain, and she detests the man he has selected. Edgar Cochran is pompous, coldhearted, and a snob. She cannot let her father sentence her for life with such a man—even if it means getting cast out penniless. Then she hears of a possible solution—a mail-order bride agency matching men from the Wild West with women from the East. Can this be how she escapes her father’s dictatorship?

When her father passes away suddenly, Justine Mayer has no reason to stay in Boston. With the promise of a romance, she answers an advert for a mail-order bride and sets out for Fielder’s Union, Arkansas. When she arrives, she discovers the man she is all set to marry isn’t waiting for her. Even worse, he may never have existed. Taken in and sheltered by the Barnett family, she begins to rebuild her shattered life in Fielder’s Union, unsure of what the future holds. All she knows is she has found new friends, including the handsome local sheriff, Tom Barnett.

Justine Russell has lost the man she loves. Now her father wants her to marry the son of his old friend in Missouri. How can Justine leave her native Boston for the Wild West? How can she marry a man she’s never met? Riley McPherson’s father informs him he is to marry his friend’s daughter, Justine. Unwilling to follow his father’s wishes, Riley rebels. How can he marry a stranger? Why should he? Left at the altar by the only woman he’s ever loved, Riley will not trust his heart to another.

Iris Reeve’s young niece, Nanette, invites Iris and Geneva Pomolo to a birthday party at a lavish estate belonging to Leandra Bosworth. Iris and Geneva - both of them amateur sleuths - are expecting a relaxing weekend getaway in rural Indiana. But the Bosworth household proves to be anything but relaxing. There’s the aggressive ex-boyfriend who is still hanging around...the daughter who is secretive, anxious, and high-strung...and the teenage granddaughter who seems entirely too invested in boys...

Reese Tait is a single rancher with two small children and a run-down ranch to care for, and he’s running out of time. Aileen Warrick is a young widow with debts to pay and nowhere to turn. She’s also running out of time. Valerie Tait is the frustrated, lovelorn bride who brings them together.

Melinda Post flees Pittsburgh, and heads west to marry Bart Brown, a young newspaper owner. Although Bart has advertised in the Matrimonial News, Melinda doesn’t answer his Mail Order Bride advert straight away. She wants to see for herself what kind of man Bart is, before she promises herself to him. So, she poses as a married woman, takes a job with Bart at his newspaper, and falls in love with him as they work together. But believing she’s married, Bart won’t give in to his feelings for her - and he begins writing another Mail Order Bride.

In the sleepy town of Raven’s Point, the annual ball at the opulent Park Mansion is the highlight of the year—a night of pure fantasy. This year, the Regency masquerade theme adds an extra layer of allure, and sisters Helen and Maybelle can hardly contain their excitement. Dressed in exquisite period costumes, they enter the grand estate, eager to glimpse the luxurious lives of the Park family, the town’s wealthiest residents. But the glittering evening takes a dark turn when Jeffrey Park, the man controlling the family fortune, is brutally murdered during a sudden power outage.

When Waneta Bowman is forced to go and stay with her cousins in Rock Point, Ohio, she misses the beau she left behind in Indiana. Even as she tries to settle into her new life, she waits anxiously to receive a letter from Thomas. But all her letters to him go unanswered. Isn’t he missing her? As the days wear on, Waneta feels guilt when thoughts of her beau are replaced by another man who offers friendship—and perhaps something more.

Mandy Chambers is moving to Pepper Gulch, Utah, to become a mail-order bride to rancher Ernest Flinn. But when she arrives, everything changes. Now, her younger sister and Ernest are happily married and expecting their first child. The more Mandy sees the happiness of her sister, the more she wants that same happiness for herself. But Pepper Gulch isn’t a big town, and Mandy despairs of finding someone special.

Becky Raber is a young widow, seven months pregnant. She’s alone, scared, and misses her late husband. Her only close relative is her cousin, Doris. Becky has no choice but to live with Doris and her husband, Abel Yoder, a stern, dour man. He’s determined to find Becky a new husband, marry her off, and get her out of his house But Becky wants to be independent, and take care of the baby by herself. Then, she meets Noah King, and her world is upended again. She hadn’t counted on meeting someone so kind and tenderhearted. Does Gott have yet a different plan for Becky?

Mary Sutter couldn’t get away from Hollybrook fast enough.... Her former fiancé and his new wife are expecting their first boppli by Christmas, and she doesn’t want to be there when it happens. So when she gets the opportunity to go to Ohio to help her aenti after she broke her leg, Mary goes immediately. Once in Ohio, Mary also takes over her aenti’s responsibilities with the annual Christmas bazaar. She is paired up with Daniel Bender to organize it.

Society belle Sybil Webb is certain she is destined for something better than the social scene of Boston. Desperate to find a way out from under the thumb of her upwardly mobile father, she answers a newspaper advert for a mail-order bride. But escaping Boston was the easy part of Sybil’s adventure. Her intended groom, Dr. Henry Miller, is not what he appeared to be. Alone in a strange town, Sybil takes shelter with the friendly Frost family, where she finds herself challenged by—and undeniably drawn to—the Frost’s cousin, Brian Smith, a handsome man embittered by lost love.

Amateur investigator Geneva Pomolo is once again steeped in drama after she accepts a party invitation. After 10 years in the realtor business, Biff Wellington has finally obtained his PhD in history, and is about to achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a professor. But as often happens in Wrangler’s Hill, the serenity of the evening is shattered by a series of nasty confrontations. Biff has spent his entire life alienating anyone who ever loved him, and now these former friends and family are out for revenge.

The crime-solving duo Geneva Pomolo and Iris Reeves are invited to a comeback party hosted by country-music legend Dick Morrow. In the past 20 years, Dick’s style of folksy country had lost favor on the radio, having been crowded out by the louder, more aggressive brands. Dick released an acclaimed bluegrass album that sold approximately three copies, but now he’s ready to reclaim the stage that made him a star.

At an event celebrating Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland novels, amateur investigator Geneva Pomolo is drawn into intrigue when her gentleman friend, George, discovers he has a long-lost, now fully grown, daughter. This daughter lives in the Wrangler’s Hill area and is—or so he hears—in terrible danger. George and Geneva begin a mad scramble to find the girl before the worst happens. But their quest is interrupted by a murder—that of Myrna Nettles, a locally beloved octogenarian who had recently, improbably, become engaged to be married.

In early spring, amateur detective Geneva Pomolo receives a wedding invitation from a friend she hasn’t thought about in 10 years. Gladys Button has already been married six times—five of those marriages ended in divorce or annulment and the sixth ended in death. Now she’s getting married again, and she wants Geneva to be there. Baffled by the invitation, Geneva accepts. But when she and her detective partner Iris Reeves drive up to Fort Wayne to meet Gladys, they learn all is not as it seems. Gladys wants Geneva to investigate a murder—her own.

Georgiana Middleton doesn’t know what she’s getting into when she agrees to become a Mail Order Bride to a rancher in Fielder’s Union, Arkansas. But she has more reasons to leave home than she has to stay, and when she arrives at the tiny town, she is delighted to find the family friendly and welcoming.

For nearly 20 years, Chester Claus had run a year-round Christmas-themed diner in Wrangler’s Hill. For many Indiana locals, he was the embodiment of the holidays - gregarious, portly, his eyes radiating amusement as he handed out candy to children. The idea of anyone wanting to murder him was simply preposterous. But when Claus is found dead in his kitchen during the Christmas Feast, poisoned with his own favorite knife, it falls on Indiana’s finest amateur detective, Geneva Pomolo, and her partner, Iris Reeves, to investigate.

Blanche Weaver’s life falls apart when her husband Andy is killed in a tragic accident. Now widowed with four children, she has no idea how she’ll survive. With winter upon them and Christmas approaching quickly, she manages to get hired at the factory where Andy worked. Blanche’s eldest daughter, at only 10 years old, is tasked with watching her younger siblings. Just when Blanche is about to despair, Jonas Eicher, the local toymaker, intervenes. Blanche doesn’t know what to make of this kind, quiet man who seems to instinctively know what she and her children need.