The Proxy Brides

Bode needs this opportunity to prove he can be a successful businessman. His trustee, however, won't release the necessary funds unless Bode marries, by proxy, the man's choice of brides. He willing agrees. After all, he can annul the marriage after the money is in his possession. All thoughts of annulment disappear when he meets his less than shy or wilting Violet. But will Violet stay with him when she learns how Bode makes his living? Why do attempts on his life start when he makes it clear to the people around him that he plans to stay married?

Eight years ago, Toby Keller had been a clumsy, shy adolescent when he left his hometown of Brownville, Nebraska, to go live with his grandfather, the famous Marshal Hampton Gibson. Now confident, mature, and handsome, 25-year-old Deputy Tobias Keller has come home to visit his family. Once there, he finds out about a young woman under the employ of a mutual acquaintance, in a city 600 miles away, who is in dire need of a hero. Although they’ve never met, he takes it upon himself to volunteer to give her the protection of his name.

After Seth’s death Greta finds out she is with child. Seth’s parents pressure their other son, Adam, into a proxy marriage in order to keep the child in the family. Adam loves the sea and fails to arrive in Texas to meet his proxy bride. His father is forced to send the maritime police after him. Will Adam and Greta stick with the marriage? Will they fall in love? Or will Greta continue to obtain an annulment?

Mathematics teacher Daisy Murphy agrees to participate in a new matchmaking service organized by her pastor and the matron of the orphanage where she has spent the last 15 years. Romantic, yet practical, she's systematically eliminated all candidates but one and anticipates getting to know him better through months of correspondence. Time is not on the side of David Taylor. He has a nephew and niece to think about, and his attorney has warned him he will lose custody of both to their rich grandfather if he doesn't have a wife.