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Mademoiselle Sayler Rainier est folle de joie de retourner dans la petite ville de Ford’s Promise, à la frontière de l'Ouest, mais en comparaison de sa cousine Coralee, elle ne se sent pas dans son élément après une si longue absence. Néanmoins, elle est déterminée à être une enseignante exemplaire pour cette ville en pleine expansion, convaincue que le bon Dieu l’a appelée à s’établir dans l’Ouest pour y accomplir une mission. Cela lui convient parfaitement, car elle n’a aucune intention de se marier un jour. Mais elle n’a jamais imaginé que son arrivée serait si...

When the vicar lands in jail attempting to rescue Lady Juliet, and she sparks an ensuing scandal, will these two become sworn enemies? Lady Juliet Kaiden is determined to find a suitable match for herself in London during her first Season among the Ton. After all, though she is a duke’s ward, she is in an heiress in her own right—that is, until Cousin George appears on the scene after being imprisoned and detained in France during the war, reducing her inheritance greatly. Vicar Augustus Brooks has agreed to escort Lady Juliet during her Season, introduce her to the right sort from ...

Sadie Lynwood's cozy Christmas reunion at Castle Carrick in Scotland shatters when her estranged husband, Douglas, arrives unannounced at the Duncan family Christmas gathering. Her heart races as she wonders why he's there. Does he plan to save face with her family or rekindle their marriage, now shattered beyond recognition? As snow blankets the castle, Sadie and Doug must confront the past and take a leap of faith into the unknown if they want a second chance at love.

Can summer love survive amid mystery and mayhem? When Abigail Greenwood and her cousins settle in for their annual summer retreat at the stunning and impressive Sagamore Resort in the Adirondacks, all she wants is to spend as much time as possible plunking out stories on her typewriter. But when her cousins insist she join them in the tradition of choosing a beau to adore from a distance during their stay, she reluctantly plays along, setting her sights on a mysteriously quiet and aloof guest. What started as harmless fun soon changes as Abby finds herself captivated by debonair—and ...

Hensley Fitzwilliam inherited a wedding boutique from her grandmother. And she’s resolute about making Hensley’s Wedding Creations successful with her designs, hard work, and determination. But she also daydreams about the day she’ll find a husband and be able to have a family of her own. With four unwed sisters, and none of them married, and several broken relationships behind her, she struggles with doubts about her dreams ever coming true. Along comes Blake Sterling, who infuriates her at nearly every turn with his aloof manners and judgmental words. Why does he remind her of Jane ...

Miss Addison Campbell will do almost anything to leave Apple Creek behind, the small Wisconsin town where she grew up. She wants to expand her horizons and see the world. She thinks she has found the perfect opportunity to travel by accepting a position requiring her to move to Oklahoma Territory as a companion, maid, and nanny for Miss Bexley Opal Dellwood. However, Addy doesn’t expect her new employer to abandon her baby and surrender him to Addison when they journey to meet Miss Dellwood’s future husband, Reed Logan, the man Milly Crenshaw has matched her to marry. Find out what ...

Born the youngest of four daughters and one son in a modest vicar's family, Miss Catherine Edwina Lyndon faces a life of hand-me-downs and broken dreams. Her parents spend every shilling on finding husbands for her older sisters, leaving her overlooked and resigned to a future without marriage or family. Despite a passion for education reform, she is denied entry to a leading university and escapes to Northampton as a companion to an aristocratic family. As various catalysts and antagonists spring onto the scene, including a mystery unfolding as items begin to disappear during a country ...

Milly Crenshaw does it again when she succeeds at finding a groom for a destitute social butterfly from Fairfax, Virginia. She sends Miss Garner west to marry an Oregon farmer, Sterling Adams, widowed with four children who desperately need a mother while he tries to prove up his claim. Charity Garner, suffering from the shock of an accident leaving her injured and bereft of her parents and their wealth, has two choices. She can rely upon distant relations she's never met before by relocating to England, or follow the tug on her heart to become a missionary wife to Sterling and a mother to ...

Melody Ramsey has a daring and dangerous thirst for adventure in this inspirational Civil War romance. A governor’s daughter, she is in the unique position of meeting President Abraham Lincoln when news of the war breaks out. In fact, her father, the Governor of Minnesota, is the first to offer troops to Lincoln in response to his proclamation to put down the Confederate rebellion. She has no idea how she’ll accomplish the mission in her heart, but she has a courageous if not overly zealous idea to become a spy before she settles down into becoming a teacher. Since she doesn’t see how...

Miss Charlotte Kennedy, a southern belle from Georgia, has been waiting for her fiancé, Ryan Hill, to return from the Civil War since it ended three years ago. Nothing is the same since he enlisted, promising to return. When her cousin, Kitty Gardner, writes to her about a mail-order bride agency in Ottertail County, Minnesota, Charlotte writes to the proprietress, Miss Ella Milton, hoping she might be able to find her a suitable match. She doesn’t expect her heart to stop aching for Ryan, but moving forward with her life has become more appealing than the devastation of the war. The ...

Annabelle, Geneva's cousin, gets knocked down so many times. Yet, she keeps holding onto hope, the theme in this Antebellum Era, Christian Historical Romance novel. Living in Edinburgh where she helps her parents manage their general store, Annabelle writes to her Aunt Millie in Kentucky. She shares her concerns about being unable to find a suitable husband, fearing everything Grandmother Kirkland says about her may be the cause of her approach to spinsterhood. Yet, there is hope she'll have a husband and family of her own when her wealthy American aunt, thousands of miles away across the ...

When a spy and local adversaries descend, can a governess protect the duke's children and her heart? Miss Marjorie Pritchard, known as 'Jory' in the village of Glad Crown, was once caught poaching as a young girl. Now, she is the protégée of a duchess, the wealthy Lady Kingston in Northampton. Lady Kingston, the vicar's daughter who married Xander, the Duke of Gladdington, believes it is her duty as a duchess to lift up those around her. When the widowed Duke of Pensford is in desperate need of peace in his household and a governess, Lady Kingston recommends Jory for the position. She ...

Isabel Merriweather was born to become a southern belle from a rice plantation in South Carolina. When her parents become deceased during the Civil War, Aunt Margaret from Atlanta takes her under her wing. With a knack for trouble and no fiancé in sight, Isabel has grown past the customary marrying age and her aunt has become weary of finding her niece a suitable match. Desperate, Aunt Margaret ships Belle to a northern matchmaker in the hopes an unorthodox approach will succeed. When another mail-order bride in want of a husband and two completely different marriage prospects greet Isabel...

Bookshop owner Stephanie Williams can’t explain why she purchased her dream wedding dress without a boyfriend in sight. But dreams of a wedding and becoming an author someday will have to wait as she is pushed into survival mode when a competitor bookstore moves in directly across the street. The return of her archnemesis from high school isn’t helping matters either, especially when she has eyes for the very man who could destroy everything Stephanie’s family has built for generations.

Forbidden to marry Heath, the one man she truly loves, Lydia Catherine Hayden, an American heiress from Boston, boards a train and heads west to become a mail-order bride when matchmaker, Milly Crenshaw, introduces her to Wyatt from Iowa. Five years have gone by, and she isn’t interested in any of the society gentlemen of whom her father would approve. Her love for Heath has turned to a mild hate since hearing he married someone else. When the Wild Whitman Gang involved in an Iowa train robbery use orphans traveling west as human shields to make their escape, they converge on Lydia’s ...

On the outside, Jill Michaels seems to have it all together. She is a successful New York columnist and travel critic. When she isn’t writing the next book or column from her west side Manhattan office, she’s a single mother to three beautiful children. On the inside, her faith completely shattered when a routine mission in Afghanistan claimed the life of her husband. When she decides to move back to Wyoming to be near family, the last thing she expects to find is a second chance at love when Logan Haven walks back into her life. Logan has been building his dream of transforming his ...

Anastasia isn’t the least bit interested in a romance with Jed when her sister’s job placement agency sends her to work as a temp at The Sweetwater Ranch bakery. She finally has a chance to make one of her dreams come true by doing a great job managing the bakery. Maybe she’ll even get to ride the horses on the Wyoming ranch in her leisure time, or catch a glimpse of the wild horses she longs to own. Jed’s laid back, fun-loving personality hasn’t helped him find a woman to settle down with, but he’s perfectly content working as a wrangler at The Sweetwater. However, he can’t ...

Joshua Stanton, a Virginia widower, and his tomboy daughter, Ambrosia, have settled in Belle, Wyoming at Silver Aspen, his family’s ranch after his wife’s passing. Soon after, he inherits Silver Aspen and the title his pa held, ‘The Cattle King.’ As one of the largest cattle barons in the area, running the ranch is a tremendous job for a Virginia crop farmer who spent most of his life studying philosophy, theology, and agriculture. When Ambrosia is expelled from school in the middle of her term, the weight of the world falls on his shoulders. Lady Mia has inherited her mother’s ...

Jenny Lindford is a southern belle from Lexington, Kentucky about to become a mail-order bride in Minnesota. The eldest of five sisters, she worked hard to help her ma hold the family horse farm together while her father was away fighting in the Civil War. Raised to be an independent thinker, she attends Miss Clark’s Finishing School after the war, and then tours England and France with one of her sisters under an aunt’s watchful eyes. However, it seems no one can see what she’s writing in that journal of hers. Philadelphia-born Dr. Zane Beckham has led a privileged life. Not only is ...

Maddie and Brandon Kingsley have been happily married for fifteen years, but they begin navigating rough waters as Maddie decides to transition from stay-at-home Mom to owning her own antique shop. At the same time, Brandon's career as an advertising executive brings additional stress when business travel and other demands increase. When their pre-teen twin daughters mistakenly think Mom and Dad are headed for divorce, they begin calling the local Nashville radio station for on the air, expert Christian relationship advice from radio personality, Pippa Johnston, to save their parents' ...