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He didn’t plan on getting a wife for Christmas . . . The last thing Liam Hannan expected was a bride for Christmas, particularly one whose brother is the town marshal. Liam never meant to place that advertisement, so when Tilly Wright arrives and expects to marry him, all he can do is let her down gently. But when the only way out of a potentially scandalous situation is marriage, they find themselves starting a life together. Tilly finally has everything she’s wanted—a husband and a life in a new, exciting town. Crest Stone is a welcoming place, and she finds herself quickly making ...

The town's blacksmith is in need of a bride--but he didn't expect to also become a father. Merrick Benton wants a family of his own, but he can't seem to string two words together around the eligible ladies in town. A mail-order bride is the perfect solution to his problem. Eleanor Stevens and her sister were both widowed when their husbands died in a mine explosion. Desperate for a new beginning, they each answer advertisements from men in Crest Stone, Colorado. Eleanor is certain that a new husband in a faraway place will be exactly what her sister Rebecca and her children need to heal. ...

Can love overcome danger? Remaining in her Virginia hometown won't mend Clara Brown's broken heart. Determined to set her life back in order--and go somewhere she won't have to see her former beau--she answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride. Before she knows it, she's arrived in Crest Stone, a rugged new railroad town nestled between the mountains in Colorado. And when she meets her intended, he's better than she ever could have dreamed--handsome and kind, even if he does seem preoccupied. Roman Carlisle is a cowboy turned livery owner. More than anything, he wants what his ...

Can this sheriff's deputy convince a schoolteacher that love is enough? When the town of Last Chance agrees to let Marian Scott open a school, she can't wait to begin. Marian has always wanted to be a schoolteacher, and with her family just barely surviving, the small income she'll receive will help. Lured by the promise of the slowly revitalizing town, Cole Robertson is looking for a new start. What he didn't expect was to rescue the town's pretty new schoolteacher from a drifter with bad intentions. Nor did he imagine he'd find himself serving as a sheriff's deputy. Marian can't let ...

He vowed to keep her safe, no matter what it takes. Sheriff’s Deputy Rafe Garland doesn’t need a wife. But when he’s dragged to a meeting at the least terrible saloon in Perseverance, he finds out he’s been volunteered to marry one of six mail-order brides. The idea is simple: bring more women to town, and the rougher element will settle down. Rafe reluctantly agrees. After all, he figures he’s a better choice than marrying the poor lady off to the town undertaker. The only life Hannah White knows is the orphanage in New York City where she grew up and where she worked. When the ...

Can a mistaken identity lead to love? When Matthew Canton's mail-order bride is kidnapped from her wagon train, he doesn't hesitate to rescue her. But he didn't expect to have to bargain for her--and he certainly didn't expect her to be someone entirely different. Sophia Zane needed a quiet, quick way out of Kansas City with the money she inherited. Opting to join a wagon train headed west, she doesn't correct the wagon master when he assumes she's someone else. It's safer to leave under a different name, and her way is now already paid. When outlaws kidnap Sophia from the wagon train, she ...

Can a rancher and a socialite put their differences aside to find love? Jacob Fletcher's ranch has always been first in his life. But after seeing his sister happily married, he can't get the idea of a wife and a family out of his mind. With few women nearby, he places an advertisement for a mail-order bride--one who is strong and capable, and able to care for the house while he spends his days tending to the ranch. Susannah Hughes is on the verge of spinsterhood. With an uncle who refuses to let her marry, she sets her sights West after a dear friend finds love in Colorado. Surely a ...

She never wanted to be married. Can a little girl and her father change Delia's mind? Maxwell Foster gave up life as a gambler to care for the eleven-year-old daughter he’d never met before. Settling down in Crest Stone and taking up work at the newly-opened Hannan Hotel, he sends for a mail-order bride to be a mother to Anna. It’s difficult for him to admit, but he can’t raise Anna on his own, not when she refuses to listen to him and runs off at the slightest inclination. Cordelia Elliott is certain that becoming Max’s mail-order bride will provide excellent material for the ...

The only place she can run is into the arms of one of the most eligible men in Crest Stone . . . Family means everything to Isabella Sutcliffe. When her father and brothers are arrested, she’s determined to help them. But there’s something standing in her way—the law thinks there’s another Sutcliffe brother out there, one who got away. Except that “brother” is really Izzy. The only way she can find safety and a means to help her family is to become a mail-order bride. Hale Darby and his sister have worked hard to ensure the success of their boardinghouse in Crest Stone. Ready to...

His mail-order bride is his best friend . . . When Jeremiah Wiley advertises for a mail-order bride, all he wants is a lady who can impress his parents. If he succeeds, he’ll secure the loan he needs to buy into the livery stable where he works. But he doesn't expect for the woman who answers his advertisement to be someone he already knows—much less his closest friend. Deirdre Hannan is certain Jeremiah is the man for her. But the only way she can seem to convince him is to marry him. She secretly responds to his advertisement under a name he won’t recognize, but worries he’ll turn...

Running from the law . . . into the arms of a sheriff. All Annie Stone wants is a new life, far away from the drudgery of working as a maid in St. Louis, and far away from the sour memories of her previous marriage. She's overjoyed when a sheriff in Colorado chooses her as a mail-order bride. But as she's making plans to leave, the unthinkable happens. She needs to leave town--fast. Sheriff Caius Hunt has more work than he can handle, an uncooperative town marshal, and a family waiting for him to give up and return home. To prove to the town--and himself--that he's settled and dedicated to ...

Can she trust the man who broke her heart? Sterling Matthews is done with the danger and uncertainty that came with being a bounty hunter. It's just as well, since he's suddenly found himself responsible for his most recent quarry's ten-year-old son. Sterling can't suss out why he volunteered for the job, but something wouldn't let him allow young Noah to be shipped off to the nearest orphanage. Taking on an assumed name to protect both himself and the boy from anyone still bearing a grudge, Sterling settles in out-of-the-way Crest Stone, Colorado. All he needs now is steady work--and a ...

The man she wished for has a dangerous secret . . . After losing her husband, all Rebecca O'Neal wants is to feel safe again with her five children. She arrives as a mail-order bride in Crest Stone with her sister, only to find her intended is deceased. His brother, Levi, immediately offers to marry her instead, and Rebecca reluctantly agrees. Levi Whiteside is determined to make his late brother's farm a success and to take care of Rebecca and her children. He didn't expect to fall in love with Rebecca, especially not when he has to keep the real reason for his presence in the mountain ...

He didn't need a wife . . . until he met her. With nothing left for her at home, Hazel Hart takes a chance on becoming a mail-order bride to a rancher in the Colorado Territory. But her dreams of love and family are dashed when she meets her stoic, work-driven husband-to-be. Wade Pierce has neither the time nor the inclination for romance. Love made a shell of a man out of his father, and so Wade's only reason for sending for a wife is to have someone to cook and keep up with the house. But instead of getting the woman he imagined, he finds himself wedded to Hazel--who seems bent on making ...

When he inherited a ranch, he didn't expect a bride to be part of the deal. When Cade Harris receives word that his older brother has passed away and left him a ranch, he pushes aside his grief and decides to take on the ranch himself. But when he arrives at the plot of land outside Crest Stone, Colorado, he finds a half-built house and cattle that have long since run off. And if that wasn't enough, his brother's bride-to-be arrives. Jolie Taylor always preferred studying the stars in the sky and the plants on earth to making the rounds of society. But when she loses her father and every ...

She's a mail-order bride hunting for a lost treasure . . . one that her new groom was the last person to see. Lina Groves' outlaw father died in a shootout, leaving her with a brother in desperate need of medical treatment and no clue to the location of the treasure he'd claimed to have for his children. With her brother growing worse by the day, Lina needs a miracle. As if in answer to her prayers, she spots an advertisement for a mail-order bride--from none other than the sheriff who was the last person to see her father alive and the only one who might know where his treasure was hidden....

He didn't expect a baby for Christmas . . . When Catherine Lee finds herself widowed and on the verge of losing her home, she quickly agrees to become a mail-order bride. She can withstand another loveless marriage so long as she has a place to live and food to eat. However, just before she arrives in Grover's Gulch, Colorado to be married, she discovers that she is expecting a baby--a child her intended knows nothing about. Jonathan Clark needs a wife to help him run the new boarding house he's opened in town. It'll be hard work, cooking and cleaning after any number of boarders. When he ...

A restless doctor. A woman who wants to call one place home. Will a Christmas Matchmaker's Ball help them find their way to each other? Dr. Nicholas Gatewood arrives in Creede just before Christmas, looking for a place where he can make a difference. When he happens upon a quack doctor shilling "medicines" from a wagon, he's quick to announce to the town that the man is a fraud. But Nick didn't expect to find himself confronted by the medicine show man's beautiful--but angry--daughter. Willa Rousseau's father helps people with his Miracle Elixir. She loves him dearly, but more than anything...

Dora Reynolds is just another Gilbert Girl at the Crest Stone Hotel, and she needs it to remain that way. If anyone found out who she truly is, she'd lose her friends and her position. But when money begins to disappear from the hotel's safe and a handsome new desk clerk arrives, she finds her security-and her heart-under threat.

Penny May would do anything to forget her past, even traveling all the way to the Colorado Territory to become a Gilbert Girl. Learning to be a good waitress wasn't easy, but Penny is happy with her new life and friends at the Crest Stone Hotel. At least until the handsome and infuriating county sheriff arrives in search of his kidnapped sister.