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Mail Order Bride: Emma's Temptation: A Western Historical Christian Romance Story tells the story of Emma taking a leap of faith by responding to a mail-order bride advertisement. Her original motive: financial security to assist her struggling younger siblings. While meeting her cowboy suitor, she begins to genuinely fall in love with the Christian man. She soon meets a rival ranch owner of her cowboy who presents an offer to make her wealthy. The only problem; it involves betraying the trust of her soon-to-be husband.

Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way, she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child. After finally arriving at her cowboy's ranch, she falls for the handsome man but knows she must soon reveal her unfortunate circumstance.

Is He a Mail Order Husband Sent by God?: June Finds Rico on the Prairie is about the oldest of six children who, with their mother in frail health and their father gone for weeks, finds a severely wounded man on the prairie as she takes her normal early morning ride. With the help of her siblings and mother, June manages to get him back to their ranch to try to heal him. As the time when her father is to return approaches, all wonder what will be thought of the man who June has grown fond of, and if he will be allowed to stay a while longer.

Shaw's forte was her ability to create interesting casts of characters through whom and between whom she was able to develop a suspenseful and unpredictable interplay. This story is a good example of her character driven Western fiction.

Brother Shotgun is about an old buffalo hunter whose return to the plains after the Civil War keeps being delayed by the needs of a young woman who has taken in a number of orphans.

The Baby Left Along The Oregon Trail & Rescued By Christian Pioneers is a heart-warming story about a poor wagon train making its way along the Oregon Trail. The train may be poor but the Christians on it are strong. A Native American baby is found along the trail by one young man and he takes it immediately to the wagon train. There are no nursing mothers on the small train and no source of food for the infant.

Losing his wife years, Wes begins to think he will not find a woman to love or take care of his children. God soon compels him to place an advertisement for a mail order bride, which Amish widow Hannah responds to. Wes is a strong, God-fearing Christian man. They begin a correspondence and feel God’s love emanating through their letters to one another.

Mail Order Bride: The Widow Turns The Montana Rancher’s Hardened Heart, presents the story of a widow with a new baby decides to leave her small town and travel to Montana to be the wife of a Montana man she has never met. Her three children in tow, two of which are twin freed slaves, she immediately runs into a heap of trouble as soon as she arrives; meeting the rancher and his bitter son.

Losing Her Cowboy, is the emotional story of Jordyn, a woman who starts out by lying when she begins a correspondence with a rancher in Oregon who has advertised for a mail order bride. All she wants to do is get out west, learn how to run a ranch, then own one herself - just like she and her now deceased father had planned. Under other deceptions, she gets a free boat ride out to the west coast from a mail order bride company sending one hundred women in search of husbands.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Gold of a Different Kind, is about one young woman forced into prostitution, along with her sister, and how she was saved by a lonely preacher in Montana who wanted nothing more than a wife to love and cherish. Without his help they would both have more than likely died. Little does he know that when beautiful Rachel arrives on the train and he sees her for the first time, how many more lives are both saved and loved, and how their eventual union will change their town forever.

Arriving With Her Beloved Children, is an incredibly moving story about love; love for people of another race, love for children with special needs, and love between a man and a woman - a surprise mail order bride - who can give nothing but kindness to all who surround them.

God's Way of Sending a Mail Order Husband: Abby, William, and the Little Man is about young Abby who just loves horses. She is 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. When she looks into his gray eyes, she is hooked.

Bill Ash, an escaped convict returns to find his father murdered.

Chance Strangers on a Train Headed West is about a mail order bride headed for California, and a man she has never met, to marry him and start a new life out west. When she meets a charming and handsome lawyer who was fired from his firm and is now headed there too, she is torn between the duty to her parents to marry who they chose for her, and a burgeoning respect then love for Asa, her stranger on a train.

The Western Groom: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish, is the story of a trading post operator and a bible salesman. When her Uncle Joe is killed, Penny is left to handle the trading post in a fairly remote area of Colorado. Her store was robbed and she's on the edge of a breakdown and she's lost most of her faith, when a bible salesman she is acquainted with stops by. He stays for a while, then much longer, and helps her get the store back on its feet.

Mail Order Husband: Going to Meet Rebecca, Worth More Than Rubies is a wonderful story about a man who heads for Colorado and a family he intends to get to know if they’ll have him, as he’s answered a mail order groom wanted ad. Mail Order Bride: Two Sisters and the Family Quilt Go West for Love is the story of two sisters sent by their parents to California, where one is to be a mail order bride.

Mail Order Bride: Sheriff Nathan Falls In Love With Drunken Lizzie, presents us with is the story of a sheriff in California, a good Christian man, who tries to help and look after everyone in the small town he works in, including the local drunk. When he asks his mother back east if she knows any woman who would like to live in California and be his bride she sends him someone but Nathan is shocked when a fiery woman shows up on the train, and it's very evident that besides being beautiful, she is also very tipsy.

Mail Order Husband: Going to Meet Rebecca, Worth More than Rubies is a wonderful story about a man who heads for Colorado and a family he intends to get to know if they will have him, as he is answered a mail order groom wanted ad. He is a widower and she is a widow and their story after that is an emotional and satisfying one about family, faith, and the love for God.

Mail Order Bride: Tainted on Her Way to the Colorado Cowboy tells the story of a young woman's journey to Colorado in 1865. She intended on meeting the love of her life after answering an ad in a mail order bride catalogue, but encountered a trying ordeal along the way. Sarah will need to cling to the Lord more than ever as she continues her path toward her Colorado cowboy and the Lord's plan of matrimony.

Mail Order Bride: Jasmine's Lonely Cowboy is an emotional story about a lonely man with children who sends away for a mail order bride, and in return, gets so much more than he expected.