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When Millie's friend, Berta, elopes instead of fulfilling her obligations to be a mail order bride, she decides to take her friend's place and be the best mail order bride a man has ever seen. Of course, she can't exactly cook, and she enjoys meddling in other people's lives under the guise of "helping them," but surely, her future husband won't mind that. Connor waits excitedly for his Berta to get off the train in Idaho, knowing that she is the answer to his prayers. She's an excellent cook and a hard worker, just what he needs for his restaurant. He's confused when Millie gets off the ...

When Brynna, the daughter of an English earl, is kidnapped and found tied to a tree in Scotland, she believes her life is over. Her father refused the ransom her abductors asked for because he felt he had too many daughters anyway. Now, Brynna has no home to return to, and knows no one in the Highlands where she was found. Colin, the heir to the Clan McClain, finds a girl while on his walks. He quickly discovers she has been kidnapped and has nowhere to go. He immediately takes her home to his family, knowing she will need much healing after her ordeal, but he also knows he has the power to...

James Salsbury, duque de Rothgar, pretende casarse. No es la primera vez que piensa en el matrimonio y no aspira a que sea un acto obligatorio, es decir, solo por el sencillo hecho de procrear y traer al mundo a su heredero. ¡No! Tiene que ser mucho más. ¡Ha de serlo! Desea que su unión sea por amor y por ello necesita encontrar a una dama que le haga suspirar embelesado. Ella tiene que ser diferente. Debe tolerar sus fuertes apetitos carnales, pues está decidido a serle fiel hasta que la muerte llame a su puerta, porque cuando empeña su palabra lo hace hasta el final. Eso es lo que ...

The happiest day of Esther’s life quickly becomes a nightmare when she finds her husband dead in their fields. Now she is pregnant with no way to provide for her unborn child and her in-laws will soon evict her from her home. Becoming a mail-order bride will meet her needs, but will it allow her to find love and happiness?Thomas is surprised to read the letter he receives from a young widow who is pregnant. He agrees to marry her, but wonders immediately what he’s gotten himself into. Was marrying a pregnant woman really the best idea?

When Doris Miller gets completely fed up with her younger siblings and knows she needs a break, she does the only thing she knows to do. She goes to her sister Elizabeth to ask to be matched as a mail order bride. Doris needs to forget all about her past as a member of the demon horde and go where no one else remembers it either. This book was previously published in the anthology "Pistols and Poplin." Harvey Butler knows that his children are terrors. He knows he's not doing the right thing by them since their mother died, but he has no idea what to do with them. Instead, he spends all his...

Alice Sanders feels as if love will never happen for her. She watches longingly as each of her sisters marries in turn. When her sister Ruby has a problem pregnancy, she agrees to help out in the store Ruby owns with her husband, Lewis. There she meets a handsome man she feels like she could care for, but his intentions are in question. Mark Brooks is struggling to find his way as he takes over the family business from his recently deceased uncle. His travel and work take him to Nowhere, Texas where he meets the beautiful Alice Sanders. For him, it’s love at first sight. When he makes an ...

Having lost her husband on the way to Oregon City, Melody was unsure how she should continue. She had no idea how she would make it on her own when they reached the land the government had promised. When she was offered the opportunity to marry a stranger in Clover Creek, a town her wagon train was traveling through, she jumped at the chance. Jacob Appleby lost his wife on the Oregon Trail almost a year ago. Settled in Clover Creek, three of his four children are married and living their own lives. When his daughter-in-law Fiona suggests he marry one of the women in the company coming ...

When Mary Mitchell agrees to go on the Oregon Trail with her family, she certainly has ulterior motives. Believing that married women are no more than servants to men and children, she wants to get her own homestead, and Oregon is the place she can do just that. Her father discovers her plans, and he tells her she must marry one of the single men who are on the Trail with them, and she only has a week to decide who it will be. Bob Hastings is enamored of boyish Mary from the moment he meets her, and he continually asks her to dance with him when they have music nights on the trail. One ...

Minnie Sanders has everything going for her. She’s starting a new job at the mayor’s office in Nowhere, Texas. She’s surrounded by family who love her beyond anything she’s ever known. But as Minnie watches her sisters all fall in love and marry, she realizes marriage is something she wants as well. She loves her nieces and nephews, and she dreams of holding her own child someday. She’s never been courted, but all of a sudden there are three men asking her father for permission to date her. Timothy Parker’s new job with the town judge is everything he’s ever hoped for. He ...

Jane Davies—a new pregnant widow on the Oregon Trail—spends too much of her time thinking about what could have been. To help herself as well as others, she offers to help a family with three young children whose mother has passed by cooking their meals for them. Her only intention is to help the other family. Soon she finds herself falling in love with the three children in the family she helps. Matthew Henderson cannot believe his bad luck. His wife was the first of their company to die on the trek to Oregon, and now he’s gotten a bad ankle sprain going down Big Hill. He can barely ...

Hombres difíciles que no entienden de tiernos sentimientos, solo de órdenes. Mujeres criadas para ser sometidas, pero decididas a encontrar su lugar. Llega la serie Los Rudos de la mano de Minerva Beaumont, una talentosa autora que desgranará los secretos del Londres de Regencia a través de unos personajes de lo más peculiares. Si te gustaron los Bridgerton… esto no tiene nada que ver con ellos. ¿Por qué? Pues porque los caballeros no son razonables y las damas no hacen lo que se espera que hagan. Declan Ballister es el ejemplo más claro de que un grandullón está revestido de un...

With only two young girls, Margaret Bolling, a widow, has been left with nothing. Desperate to survive, she takes her girls from their home in Kentucky to Independence, Missouri—the starting place of the two-thousand-mile trek to Oregon Territory. She only has herself to rely upon, and with her finances in dire straits, she sells baths and meals on the trail after driving her wagon all day. Everyone is so friendly—but one man always seems to be there when she needs help. After falling in love with Margaret the moment he saw her at the general store in Independence, Jamie Prewitt is ...

Lady Caliope Archer está de regreso en Londres. Las salidas sociales, los bailes, el teatro o los conciertos han llegado a causarle una grata impresión. Cosa que no pensó que ocurriría. La hija del anterior conde Luff no está tan contenta con los pretendientes que ansían conquistarla. Convencer a su tutor de que rebaje su dote parece ser una salida de lo más digna para disfrutar de un poco de tranquilidad en la ciudad. Si además su hermana Charlize la dejase en paz, Caliope podría llegar a darse cuenta de que la temporada no es tan mala como pensó antaño. Y sin embargo, hay un ...

After the death of Elaina Walstad’s father, she realized that the man running her ranch was stealing from her. She needed help to prove it, and she sent off for a mail-order groom to not only help her with the ranch but also to be her life partner. Steven Miller never planned to be a mail-order groom like his brothers had been, but when his sister showed him Elaina’s letter, he knew that he had to marry the woman. As soon as he arrived in Montana, he went over the ranch’s books and found them to be deceptive. It wasn’t long before Steven and Elaina knew there must be a showdown. ...

This box set includes the first four books in the bestselling Brides of Beckham Series by Kirsten Osbourne. Included are: Mail Order Mayhem, Mail Order Mama, Mail Order Madness and Mail Order Mix-up. Harriett Long, a widow in Beckham, Massachusetts, begins her journey as a matchmaker by matching up four brides with grooms in the West. Follow her and her butler, Higgins, as they give desperate women their happily ever afters. Mail Order Mayhem When Maude is told she must marry a repulsive man, she instead responds to an Iowa farmer who is looking for a mail order bride. After sneaking out of...

Dissatisfied with her life in Beckham, Massachusetts, Tabitha Murphy decides to head west as a mail-order bride, though she is certain it’s a bad idea. She expects to arrive in Wyoming only to find out whoever had written to her had meant it as a joke, or that the man she was set to marry had died. She’s not at all surprised when she reaches her destination to find no one waiting for her. After waiting for a good, long while, she stops the next stranger passing by, and asks him where to find the man she was sent there to marry, only to see him laughing at her. Bert Blander is highly ...

A forced betrothal, a missing chambermaid, and two unlikely allies whose lives merge in a forbidden entanglement of the heart. Emmeline is to be married to a heartless brute of a man—sold off like a pig at auction, nothing more than a pawn to secure her father’s business dealings. When the handsome Elias Compton arrives at the hotel under the guise of seeking employment, she is instantly smitten. Elias has come to The Balfour Hotel undercover. His real mission is to search for a missing woman who was last seen working as a chambermaid at the hotel. Has she met with foul play? Does the ...

Prepare to be whisked away once more to the enchanting world of Harborview in "The Beacon of Love's Light." In this captivating tale, Elena, a hat maker whose vibrant spirit and boundless creativity are matched only by her passion for life falls for Jonathan, a man of quiet strength and unwavering determination whose gentle demeanor belies a heart as rich and warm as the sun-drenched shores of their beloved town. "The Beacon of Love's Light" is a tale of opposites attract, where Elena's effervescent energy meets Jonathan's steadfast resolve, creating a love story as timeless as the sea ...

AFTER THEIR UNEXPECTED MEETING AT PEMBERLEY, Elizabeth Bennet believes that she and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy have been afforded a second chance at love. Even with the news of Lydia Bennet's elopement with George Wickham could surely only delay their happily ever after. After his visit to Longbourn in the autumn, Mr. Darcy must go to London but promises to return within a fortnight. Elizabeth does not doubt an engagement will result then once he returns.

What do you do if you are of noble stock, but impoverished, and living in London with a certain style to maintain? One has to work... but One's relatives will be appalled when One turns One's hand to trade - and opens a hotel, The Poor Relation, offering employment to others of the same social standing and in the same awkward situation. This is precisely what Mrs Fortescue decides upon and, together with friend Colonel Sandhurst, transforms her decrepit Bond Street home into a posh hotel, offering guests the pleasure of being waited upon by the nobility.