Left widowed within her first year of marriage, southerner Thea Sykes turns to a mail-order bride service in order to stay afloat. Shipping off to a mountain in Wyoming comes with its fair share of fears – until Thea sets eyes on her new husband, Wakefield Briggs. A strong and generous man, Wakefield seems to know exactly how to bring the joy back into Thea’s life, and she into his. Everything is simpler in Whiteridge, Wyoming. Full of love and hope. But things can’t stay the same forever. Thea is pregnant, and ‘no children’ is a stipulation of this marriage. It’s not the fact ...

Can a mere letter from the west be a ticket out of poverty and to love for a… half-deaf mail order bride? Elizabeth Quinn has had to bury her mother and is about to lose her home when a letter from a stranger offers her a way out of poverty: move out west to marry a man she has never met. She is unsure, especially of her… 1) fear of horses; 2) trauma of her father’s death at the hands of violent people out west; 3) prejudice towards Indian. And she is half-deaf. Determined to carve a new life for herself, Elizabeth heads west nonetheless and meets Joshua Isaac, a pastor for several ...

His love is held back by guilt. Her happiness hinges on her courage to forgive. Cindy Winters is suddenly left homeless and alone following her father’s sudden accidental death from a cattle stampede. Clinging on to hope, Cindy seeks out a new life as a mail order bride out west in Wyoming. The town of Cistern sits almost in the shadow of the wild and wonderous mountains of the Wyoming territory. In it, waits the graying and gentle farmer Robert McGinty. After he and Cindy are married, however, Robert’s falls ill and passes shortly after. Now, Cindy has to either abandon her new ...

A journey into the unknown is a journey to become a mail order bride. Margaret Leeds has no idea what a mail order bride is before her stepfather informs her that she is to leave for Colorado territory to marry a stranger. On her stepfather’s insistence that Margaret leave the house and stop draining the family’s resources, Margaret embarks on a long and grueling journey into the west to marry an unknown man. There’s a problem, however. The man is already married. Now, Margaret finds herself stranded in a small town of Stillwater, and her permanent limp leaves her struggling to find ...

What can a spinster mail order bride hope for? Plenty of luck. An unlucky Vivian Reed ends up in a strange town after the mail order bride agency fumbled with its paperwork. David Black, the man who shows up to get Vivian, is not her intended husband. David wants to fulfill her ailing mother’s dream of seeing grandchildren filling the house before she passes on. And David’s ‘perfect match’ is supposed to arrive as he has corresponded with a woman who has three children. Instead, the mail order bride Vivian has no children, is a spinster and totally mismatched by the agency. Now, ...

A life lost. A future uncertain. Following her father’s sudden death, dark-eyed beauty Ida Rose Lowry has few options on the table. For a woman of her status and education level in 1881 New York, it’s marry or work in a factory. Unfortunately, the number of men beating down Ida Rose’s door amounts to zero. Taking off for Wyoming Territory, and for a new life as a mail-order bride, Ida Rose quickly finds herself pulled into a fast world full of natural disasters, bandits, and family secrets. There is one shining light amidst the darkness – Thomas Adkins, the sandy-haired farmer who ...

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 ...

Ruby Williamson is struggling to get by on her failing farm and with a brother that won’t listen to sense. Haunted by a botched city job that went terribly wrong as well, Ruby makes a daring move to become a mail order bride. Fur trapper Travis Reed returns to the western town of Clear Hollow after the passing of his father so as to inherit the vast land and property. But he can’t transform the forested land into farmable land by himself and so he arranges to get married. After Ruby marries and moves in with Travis, the couple finds two runaway children who have been living and hiding ...

Being a mail order bride was her only chance – to shake away the shame that weighed on her shoulders. Ruth Gibson is a hardworking woman who wants to be treated as an equal. But every man she meets treats her as an inferior. She can stand it no longer. So, she looks west. Rumors have it that frontier women work alongside men and some of them even own their own land. That is the dream. The quickest way to get to the west is to become a mail order bride. But there’s one problem… She has to lie and hide her shame if she wants any chance of acquiring a husband. Harrison Tibbs is searching...

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 ...