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Belinda's Beloved Family Bible, is a story about a young Irish heritage woman traveling across the Oregon Trail and headed West, with her single parent father. Her mother had died giving birth to her and the treasured family bible held her only memories. On a rugged river crossing the bible is lost and Belinda doesn't notice until later, when her father - who's the wagon master - is unable to stop. Distraught, Belinda jumps off the wagon and runs towards the river and back into unknown territory.

One Bible's Journey Along The Oregon Trail: Aaron & Elizabeth's Story, is about two young people traveling West in the same wagon train, but with disparate beliefs about God. It's basically the entire wagon train against Aaron and his family and his abrasive father. Through his songs around the campfire young Aaron wins over Elizabeth and they end up talking long hours as families settle in for the night.

Our Wagon Train's One Special Christmas Eve Along The Oregon Trail is a beautiful story about a young woman traveling west on a wagon train. She looks after the children and others before she does herself, but always tries to write in her journal. It’s her way of talking to God. During the trip they all have to contend with one bad apple, the weather setting in, and the splitting up of the wagon train because of a child's injuries and need for rest.

A woman and her sister are sent out to Texas for one of them to be a mail order bride to a disabled war veteran rancher with one hand, and as a new mother to his two children. The rancher hadn’t known he could ever love again, but when he first saw Beth, he realized instantly that she would be the one to save him. His brother is there at the ranch and he realizes that he’s also in love with Beth’s sister. Their life and love together develops slowly, until something happens later that will change six lives forever

The Western Mail Order Bride: James Gets His Georgia Peach gives us the story of James, who settled in California and made a life and homestead and ranch for himself along with his brother and his wife.

Home Is Where the Heart Is, tells the story of a twenty-five year old woman, still unbaptized, who decides to take her Rumspringa 'at the last minute'. As she arrives in the city, she immediately meets a charming man who works for the local newspaper and there, she forms a deep friendship with him. As she's about to give him her decision on whether to stay in the city or return to her community, he surprises her with a decision of his own.

Jake's Grace On The Road West, is about a Canadian Amish family's decision to move out West where they feel they will have more freedom to express themselves. Along the way and after they join up with a wagon train, the young man of the family--Jake--does indeed, find Grace. This is a gentle and sweet love story suitable for any age and it contains a few inspirational passages of scripture.

A wonderful story about an entrepreneur in old Montana, Weston B. Freeman. He has a checkered and colorful and sometimes sordid past but he finally wants to settle down - and he’s lonely. He advertises for a mail order bride but it’s a long wait, until a woman from England shows up at his bar unannounced. She’s attracted to him immediately and he to her, but a little later a few things surface from his past, then his present, that may throw their arrangement into utter confusion.

Our Wagon Train: Christian Love Never Ends on the Oregon Trail is the story of a woman whose husband is killed in an attack on their wagon train, leaving her alone with her two children and parents. She bears a terrible burden after retaliation in self-defense, and it's only when they come upon a wounded man wandering the trail on his very tired horse that the redemption starts. She and the rest of the wagon train decide to make camp and she tends to his wound.

Along The Oregon Trail, is about the hardships and joy, life and death, that five sisters traveling the long road of the Oregon Trail experience, along with many others, including a man and his troubled father. There is sickness as well as health and all along, faith guides the two families through both misadventures and adventures, chance meetings with strangers, and troubled pasts. Love does play a major role in the end.

High Society Woman & The Wolves, is about a high society woman in NYC who gets sent off to Oregon to be the bride of a lonely outpost operator. He is as stunned by her beauty when she gets off the train, as she is by the wilderness surrounding his cabin and home. She doesn’t know how to make a fire or even sweep the floor and her many trunks of fine clothing fill up his small cabin. Amidst the howls of wolves surrounding them in the darkness of the forest, both will have to decide if they can ever make a match.

The Western Mail Order Bride Company, is a wonderful story about a couple of lonely men in a dusty western town in the late 1800s. What one gets when he signs up, is a fiery red-headed Irish woman with a checkered and troubled past and a very strong will to survive. Later, his best friend doesn’t fair much better. It’s a rocky road with plenty of curves ahead set in a frontier town. It’s also a powerful love story full of strong Christian values.

The Amish Way: A Father Never Known is the story of a young woman who is looking after her father, when he asks her to fetch a reclusive doctor. She does so, not knowing why he asked it of her. Later, she is asked to foster a child and grows to love the baby and in a while, she finds out who the stranger is and what he means to her and her growing family.

i>Chastity, the Orphan & Mail Order Bride, is a story about a very feisty, intelligent and strong willed orphan, sent to Idaho as a mail order bride and to meet her future husband, a rancher from Germany. Leaving her alone because she is called to deliver a baby, her chaperone tells her to stay in the hotel lobby but she wants to explore the small town and ends up in the saloon. Just in time her future husband shows up and they immediately get off on the wrong foot. Along with that she also has no clue as to what will be expected of her as a rancher's wife.

This wonderful eight story Christian Western Mail Order Bride audiobook collection, contains the titles listed below, and, within this collection, you will find a variety of characters who find their soon-to-be significant other in a variety of ways, but always with the involvement of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Please enjoy this labor of love!

When Jacob saw Mary, a new member of their congregation, for the first time, he knew that marriage would be a possibility for his future. He wanted desperately to have a family and when Mary helped him in the kitchen he realized that he'd have to tell her his dark secret before much more time elapsed, and he lost all chances of having a son.

Mail Order Bride: Led by God to the Texas Cowboy takes place during the time of the American Civil War. It tells the story of a young woman, Susan, who lives in New York City and responds to a mail order bride advertisement. Ben, the cowboy in the ad, seeks a Christian woman he can spend the rest of his life with. After exchanging several letters, the hopeful bride and groom decide to meet. On her way to his Texas ranch, Susan is the victim of an assault on a train and is devastated.

God’s Way of Sending A Mail Order Husband: Abby, William, And The Little Man, is about young Abby who just loves horses. She’s out riding one day when she hears a thud and then a groan and then a mustang runs right past her and her mare. She finds out that the thud was the son of a neighboring rancher who she hasn’t seen for years.

Mail Order Bride: Lord, Please Heal My Sick Cowboy takes place shortly after the Civil War and is an inspirational story of love and faith in God’s healing touch. After responding to a mail order bride advertisement, Carissa can’t wait to meet her hopeful husband. She strongly feels that the Lord is leading her to the Californian cowboy (Joshua) and his large ranch. After finally arriving, Joshua shows her a love and happiness she has never felt before.

Delivery Refused? is a novella about a lonely California rancher who requests a mail order bride, but considers sending her back when she tells him adamantly that she doesn't want to get married yet - or ever.