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Laverne Weber’s husband has passed away, she’s lost her home and been forced to move into the city, and her little daughter Birdie is the only family she has left. With her meager savings quickly running out, she’s forced to become a Mail Order Bride. She’s matched to Doc Clinton Martin, in Culver’s Creek, Missouri. From his letters, he’s kind, gentle, honorable, and loving.

Shane Ellis is in dire straits. With a ranch to run, his brother’s children to take care of, and nothing but tragedy in his romantic life, he’s got his hands full. When his mother becomes injured, he’s left with no choice but to bring someone in to help. Local girl Trudie Stevenson is willing to help a handsome bachelor out, but instead, he sends for a Mail Order Bride, Clara Goodwin.

With a broken heart, James Clyde’s swears he’s done with love. His marriage will be one of convenience, only to ensure an heir to the family ranch. But when Alisha Smith shows up in Culver’s Creek, it’s clear all bets are off. Alisha is smart, stubborn, compassionate, good with horses...and the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen. On top of that, she’s the kind of girl who believes in love at first sight. And her first sight of James might be enough to prove her theory true. But Alisha’s got her own sad story, the kind of past all too familiar to James.

Mary Rose Martin is desperate. With seven younger sisters all happily married, her wealthy Virginia family is starting to give up on her, and she faces the dismal fate of being an old maid. Her only choice is to marry Thorton Ellis, 30 years her senior - and completely odious. Mary Rose can’t face the prospect of spending her life with him. Instead, she flees, and gets on the first train West.

When successful gold-hunter Charles Lawson decides to settle down in Shallow Gorge, Colorado, he ends up getting more than he bargained for. He never expected his new neighbor to take such an interest in his happiness. And he certainly never expected to be talked into writing an advert for a mail order bride. But when the answer to the advert comes, she is also far more than Charles bargained for. Kate O’Donnell, a young Irish immigrant, has a gorgeous face and a spitfire personality. She travels to Colorado with expectations.

Desperate to help her family, Elaine Rockmont agrees to marry Rodney Kingman, an ordinary bank teller in Fort Riggins, Montana. On the train west, she meets the handsome and entertaining Billy Warwick. The trip passes quickly in Billy’s company, yet she is promised to Rodney. Billy regrets leaving the beautiful and enticing Elaine at the hotel with Rodney. Later, when a pretty young lady shows off a nervous horse as a “wedding present” to Rodney and Elaine, she is thrown from the saddle. Rodney’s quick and intense response is puzzling. What is going on here?

When Courtney Atwood’s husband dies in an accident, she does her best to mourn him as she ought. But they never really loved each other, and their marriage was simply one of convenience. Raising her five-year-old son on her own becomes a challenge for more than one reason--how can she explain that there should be more to life than simply accepting what you’re given?

Years after being left at the altar, Susan Spencer is facing another sad, cold, lonely Christmas in Boston. Unwilling to let her life continue like this, she accepts a match with a bachelor blacksmith in Miles Gulch, Wyoming. Her dreams are immediately shattered. Her fiancé is deathly ill and passes away shortly after her arrival. Alone in Miles Gulch, Susan befriends the folks in town, and when they assume she was already married to the blacksmith, she hasn’t the heart to set them straight. With a home, a job, and friends, Susan is determined to make this new life a better one.

Her husband is dead. She's pregnant. And her odious brother-in-law is forcing her hand in marriage. Betty Rochester can't abide the thought of Garrett having anything to do with her child. Or her. She has to escape and fast. Her only hope is to get as far away from Boston—and Garrett—as she can. But Betty has run out of options. Except one. Her sister became a mail-order bride, so why can't she? But Betty doesn't count on her mail-order husband rejecting her when he discovers she's with child. Now she's thousands of miles from home with a man who can barely look her in the face.

Nellie Williams is tired of the mundane, everyday sort of life she leads in Middleburg, Virginia. She longs for adventure, excitement, and true love—but she stands little chance of finding any of it if she stays put at home. When her cousin tells her about matrimonial agencies, her imagination takes flight at once. She can just see it now—being matched with a handsome cowboy in the Wild West, raising children, fighting off outlaws. But as she starts her journey toward the future, the fulfillment of her dreams is far more than she bargained for.

Home again at Planter’s Point, Marcus Tait is a wounded man. He’s long since recovered from the horrific mine accident, but his recovery from the woman who deserted him is far from over. Buried in his work on his cousin’s ranch, he fears he’s destined to become a lonely, bitter old man, one who will never love again. Six months a widow, Jessica Archer finds every day a struggle. It isn’t just the loneliness and grief - it’s trying to raise her five-year-old son in her husband’s childhood home, with her cold, overbearing in-laws blaming her for Seth’s death.

Keith Hamilton, the son of a wealthy tobacco plantation owner, is ordered to marry a thoroughly disagreeable woman in Rutger’s Creek - or his sister will not be allowed to marry her sweetheart. Something must be done. His best alternative is to get a Mail Order Bride. Anyone is better than Beatrice Charlston. Anyone. Colette Boisselot is newly arrived to America from France. After her fiancé deserts her, she’s impoverished, destitute, and out of options. She signs up to become a Mail Order Bride.

When Margaret Jameston’s father passes away, her whole life changes. In one swift blow, she goes from the coddled, spoiled daughter of a doting father to a penniless pauper, entirely dependent on the charity of others. As she seeks to take control of her life again, employment proves impossible to find - and that’s what leads her to the matrimonial agency, and ultimately to Shadow Gulch, Idaho.

When Lily Jones is left by her betrothed, she fears her heart will never fully recover. With no family, Lily decides to follow through on a match made by a matrimonial agency–a match with a wealthy rancher in Mountain Pass, Oregon. Daniel Brown is in his early 30s, a life-long bachelor, and the only inheritor of the beautiful, sprawling acreage of Delia Ranch. But there’s a secret or two that didn’t quite make it into his letter of application for a mail order bride: Daniel has a past that left him broken.

Sophie Connor has only known love once in her life and when he marries another, she is faced with a choice. Either spend the rest of her life as a sad old maid, haunting the lower stories of her parents home, or agree to become a Mail Order Bride to a man in Mountain Pass, Oregon. But the man she becomes engaged to has a tragic history of his own. Sophie falls for her husband to be at first sight. Tall, handsome, kind—and not given to long speeches—Evander Holland is exactly the sort of man she hoped he would be.

Belle Herman is destined for better things. At least, that is what her mother always tells her. When the local matrimonial agency matches her with a wealthy rancher in Colorado, she sets her sights on the future and says a fond goodbye to her past.

When Tom Knox decides to take his best friend’s advice and write for a Mail Order Bride, he figures it will be a marriage of convenience—someone to help him around the ranch and to keep him company. But when his intended bride arrives, it turns out to be anything but convenient… May Chapman, an heiress adrift, flees the stifling expectations of London high society for the promise of a fresh start. Boston was to be her salvation, but when fate uproots her plans, she finds herself venturing to the rugged plains of Texas.

Nettie Ellison’s life has turned upside down. Her mother married a rich but hateful man, George Wade, and he wants nothing to do with Nettie. After threatening to put Nettie out on the streets, he sends her away as a mail order bride to Spring Valley, Texas.

Rose Clarke has only ever wanted one thing: to spend her life caring for the family she loves. But when her godfather tells her his nephew in Montana has asked for her hand in marriage, she allows herself to be persuaded to set her sights on another goal – that of becoming a wife. Abram Ward carries the tragedy of a failed romance – along with a heavy burden of guilt. He wants nothing more than to care for his ranch and be left alone.

Eliza Montgomery has always lived under someone else's direction. So, when her overbearing father passes away, she is at a loss—for the first time in her life, the choice is up to her. Applying to a matrimonial agency, she agrees to become a Mail Order Bride for a farmer in Culvers Creek, Montana.