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For lovers of authentic mail order bride stories of 19th century American frontier: The Sunny Springs trilogy boxset. Note: Each book in the series is a standalone story that can be read out of order. Mail Order Bride’s Baby And Her Mismatched Rancher A mail order bride with a baby mismatched to a rancher with no interest in children… Abbie Hustley thinks her future is secure when she becomes a mail order bride for a rancher in the west. There will be no more singing in saloons, no more late nights. Sam Sayler has everything he wants, a ranch of his own, loyal ranch hands, and a life ...

Sometimes the most significant journeys are those that take place within the heart. Amelia Hall, widowed and pregnant, stands at a pivotal juncture in her life… Facing a future shrouded in uncertainty, she finds no other option but to agree to an arranged marriage with Benjamin Grant. A pragmatic blacksmith, Benjamin is driven by both societal expectations and the allure of new prospects in the rapidly developing state of California. But never in his heart did he plan to make room for love… Confronting the western trail’s harsh realities, Amelia’s steadfast faith and spirit slowly ...

All her life, she has been seen as second-class. Harriet Orland is the daughter of a former house slave and the man who owned the plantation where she was born. All she has ever known is a life of slavery until the end of the war brought their freedom. But she quickly sees that their so-called freedom is only half won. Life in New York after the Civil War is brutal, with only the most demeaning of menial jobs available to them. After losing her mother to sickness, Harriet is left alone to make ends meet on the streets of New York. Her chance to break away from a life of drudgery is to make ...

No one is as hopeful, nor as patient and courageous as Lottie Dumont. On a promise to her dying mother, Lottie looks after her father even as he grows unkind and on occasion, violent. Despite everything, Lottie will not give up hope. She dreams of a better life. When work takes Lottie and her father to a small Colorado town of Red Canyon, no one is more skeptical of the young woman’s seemingly endless optimism as Deputy James Butler. Worn and scarred by what the world has done to those he loves, James sees only the potential in people to do harm to one another. But Lottie is like no woman...

A mail order bride can run from her past, but she can never truly escape it. Alice has never exactly been on the right side of the law, but the West isn’t kind towards women. She did what was necessary to protect her and her sister. The last thing she needs is a husband. What she does need is some place safe to hide. But is there anywhere the law and her past can’t catch up to her? Gabe wasn’t always a man of God. His gunslinger days are behind him, but if anyone found out, he’d be ruined. He needs a respectable woman to lend credence to his story and help him avoid discovery. A ...

When Maribelle agrees to go west to be the bride to a man she knows little to nothing about, she believes that a peaceful life of hard but honest work awaits her. However she stumbles upon an abandoned baby, and her life is turned upside down. She is made a mother in an instant and her entire future becomes uncertain. Edward is a man contented with his life. He is merely in need of help on his modest, but well-tended homestead. What he does not need is a reminder of the troubled former life that he has worked for years to forget. But when Maribelle shows up, baby in arm, there is no denying...

Sometimes a woman has no choice but to start life afresh as a mail order bride, along with her children… When Emily’s husband dies unexpectedly leaving her with two young children, the only thing she’s left with is the mercantile store that she has no means to run. Emily decides to leave everything behind and start over in the west as a mail order bride. Her new husband, Levi, has children too, which makes Emily think that he will understand her and that things will go smoothly. But she couldn’t have been more wrong. Levi has been doing everything alone for several years since his ...

Finding love is never easy for a single mother listing herself as a mail order bride. But it is necessary. Eliza Buell has just given birth to her second child. Now a single mother after the death of her husband, she finds herself alone and desperate for a way to help her children survive the coming winter. With no other option, Eliza opts to become a mail order bride. Arthur Wells is eager to prove his merit in the west, especially when his promotion is stifled solely because he is not married. And there is no better way to get a wife from the mail order bride catalogue. When Eliza arrives...

Escaping from an arranged marriage, Gemma Campbell finds herself embarking on an unknown journey – one that will bring out her courage and resilience. The only thing known to her is: she wants to decide her own marriage, by way of mail-order bride. But it is a twisted journey for Gemma - at Winding Path Ranch in Shallow Springs in the wild west, far away from the city of New York that she is used to. Her unladylike self longs for something more in life than just the usual hustle and bustle of a big city; she has a romanticized perception of the west. Is the west, in reality, really as '...

Samantha Brown, a spirited young woman from Nebraska, finds her life irrevocably changed by tragedy. Fleeing the ashes of her past, she ventures westward to Goldenbrook, a small town nestled near the mountains, seeking a fresh start as a mail order bride. Unexpectedly for Gregory Harris, a mountain man known to the townsfolk as the ‘Mountain Whisperer’, Samantha’s arrival at his doorstep marks the beginning of an unforeseen journey – one that will tear him away from the solitude he has grown used to. Now bound by a marriage of convenience, they embark on a journey of survival, trust...

No one looks at her twice because of her size… hence she turns to mail order bride. Rosalind Lee has been a large, beautifully curvy woman for most of her adult life. When her father dies and leaves her in the midst of insurmountable debts, she is forced to turn to become a mail order bride. Cassidy Gerber, a single father and saloon owner in Evergreen, Wyoming writes to Rosalind, proposing marriage. When Rosalind arrives, she finds life out west to be far more difficult than she had imagine – made worse when two strangers need to make their marriage work. As self-confidence, natural ...

Leaving an abusive husband is hard, but loving a new partner is harder… Daughter of a woman of the Iroquois tribe and a white settler from New York, Kateri Hodges finds herself drowning in the debts of her abusive husband after he dies. She feels like a broken woman. What decent man would want her? Christopher Fellows is the new sheriff in town. He loves his work but longs for companionship, and a mail order catalogue with the picture of Kateri caught his attention. Fate has it for Kateri and Christopher to come together, first as companions and then as something more… Just when Kateri ...

Burned and disfigured as a child, Millie Becker has always struggled to belong. At twenty-eight, her parents still treat her like a troublesome child. Taking a chance, she becomes a mail order bride, hoping to find love in the untamed Old West. Rancher Otto Morris is not expecting that Millie could not ride a horse. And she has a limp. Millie, on the other hand, is not expecting to live in such close proximity to Otto’s ranch hands. She also thinks that the “hard work” advertised in the mail order bride catalog are just going to be cooking and cleaning. But Millie now has to learn to ...

Sheriff Chance knows he must bring Laura’s father to justice. What he does not expect, however, is to fall in love with Laura... For the last ten years since the passing of Laura’s mother, she has been following her father across the west as he sells his ‘miracle tonics’ from one town to the next. Laura remains filial, but her father’s crooked trade is becoming unbearable by the day. When Laura meets Sheriff Chance of Still Springs town in Colorado, she finds that he is the only person who sees just how difficult her life has become. Then, when her father is accused of poisoning ...

Forgiveness is not just about forgiving others, it’s also about forgiving ourselves for the pain we’ve caused others. When a tragic accident leaves Maisie Clark scarred, both physically and emotionally, her dreams of love and a future in the bustling city of Chicago start to crumble. Amid a world that has forsaken her, she discovers solace in the letters exchanged with an enigmatic suitor, A.W., whose eloquent promises of acceptance and a fresh start out west resonate deeply as she embarks on her journey as a mail order bride. Upon her arrival in the rustic charm of Goldenbrook, she ...

The path of love may at times demand the sacrifice of truth. Caroline has lost everyone; everyone but a baby left in her care. Her abusive husband, Leland, is a danger to her and her adopted baby. The fastest and only way to escape is to head out west as a mail order bride. But… she is still a married woman. And her new husband-to-be must not know that. When Henry responds to her ad, Caroline dares to dream of a better life and flees her house with a baby in tow. As Caroline learns more about Henry the farmer, she forgets her old life and grows fond of him. Though she is aware that she ...

What do the mayor of a failing town and the owner of a flourishing ranch have in common? When a mine collapse killed nearly all of the men in town, Chloe Lee is appointed mayor to watch over the lives of many women and children. Two years down, the town’s money can only go so far in the absence of trade and manpower. Chloe and her townsfolk are on the brink of despair when they meet Thomas Clarke, a ranch owner in a nearby town. The women are growing desperate, so Thomas agrees to help. But he finds himself embroiled in more than he bargained for. A long forgotten part of him slowly ...

Sam returns home one night after an absence of eight years, carousing with bad company. Sam’s father informs his prodigal son that his punishment for leaving is to make the one commitment that ensures he will never leave again: to get married. Clarise believes she is going west as a mail order bride to start a new life. But she is devastated when she learns that: 1) it is not Sam but his father who has arranged the marriage; 2) Sam is not interested to get married. Still, Sam’s father insists on the match. Caught between the warring father and son, Clarise learns about life on their ...

The life of a saloon girl is all she knows. Leana Connelly never dared to dream of a good life. Her family is long gone. Her only friends are the other saloon girls. When a cruel patron attacks her, she knows she must leave that wretched place. Leana has no one to turn to, nowhere to go. Fleeing out west to be a mail order bride is her option. But who will marry a saloon girl? Her future husband must never know her past. When Val Depue sees her ad, he decides she is the woman for him. But there are secrets about Leana that Val doesn’t know. And there is a man from Leana’s past who can ...

It’s not always about what you say to your love ones, but how you say it. Beth Cartwright is an orphan on the run. After her mother’s death, she is facing a life of destitution. With debts being called in, no prospects for marriage and no protector, she has to do something. And fast. Becoming a mail order bride is her only option. There is one small problem. She hasn’t told her husband-to-be that she comes with a little sister in tow. But she quickly finds her husband has secrets of his own. David Justman is a man haunted by his past. His scars not only mar his skin, but his heart. ...