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The only thing harder than being a saloon girl is finding true love as a mail order bride. Jane Thompson suddenly finds herself a widow after her abusive husband passes away. With no way to support herself, she is forced to advertise with a mail order bride catalogue, agreeing to move out to Wyoming to marry a farmer who proposes a home and a peaceful life. But what seems like a blessing at first becomes a nightmare. There is no husband in waiting. Instead, Jane is forced to work as a saloon girl… for the slimy Mr. Cox. Widower Adam Keen is a man who has condemned himself to an uneventful...

How will an Irish mail order bride fit in? Earn it. Lorna Faulkner never imagined that she would have to leave her beloved Ireland. But she is forced to pack up her things and take her little sister, Caitlin, across the sea to the land that has already opened its arms to so many of her people: America. When they arrive, however, they find themselves to be less accepted than they had expected. Engaged as a mail order bride to the handsome Peter Andrews, Lorna and Peter see their lives grow together in strange and expected ways. More so when Peter’s difficult past comes to light. With the ...

When Maribelle agrees to go west to be the bride to a man she knows little to nothing about, she believes that a peaceful life of hard but honest work awaits her. However she stumbles upon an abandoned baby, and her life is turned upside down. She is made a mother in an instant and her entire future becomes uncertain. Edward is a man contented with his life. He is merely in need of help on his modest, but well-tended homestead. What he does not need is a reminder of the troubled former life that he has worked for years to forget. But when Maribelle shows up, baby in arm, there is no denying...

Sometimes the most significant journeys are those that take place within the heart. Amelia Hall, widowed and pregnant, stands at a pivotal juncture in her life… Facing a future shrouded in uncertainty, she finds no other option but to agree to an arranged marriage with Benjamin Grant. A pragmatic blacksmith, Benjamin is driven by both societal expectations and the allure of new prospects in the rapidly developing state of California. But never in his heart did he plan to make room for love… Confronting the western trail’s harsh realities, Amelia’s steadfast faith and spirit slowly ...

She can heal the wounded, but can she heal a wounded heart? Alexander Roy has come to the small town of Evergreen, Wyoming to give the area its first bank. Though he is kind and quiet, he carries a great pain within him. His one desire is to find a peaceful, uneventful life in the small community, and it looks like he is going to get exactly what he wants. Until Martha Schmitt arrives. Originally from Germany, Martha finds herself tricked into making the journey to America. When she arrives and finds that things are not as they seem, she flees to Evergreen where she is taken in by the mayor...

It’s hard keeping secrets from your husband, but harder keeping from your wife. Caitlin Faulkner is a changed woman. She is no longer the naïve, stubborn girl who arrived on the American frontier with her older sister. Caitlin is now a confident, intelligent woman who can hold her own with anything that is thrown at her. Well, almost anything. When Colby Kuhn, a shop owner from a fledgling town, begins to stir strange feelings within her, Caitlin is confronted by her traumatized first love. Colby himself hides an unsavoury past. An uneasy past coming back to haunt Colby, and Caitlin as ...

For lovers of authentic mail order bride stories of 19th century American frontier: The Sunny Springs trilogy boxset. Note: Each book in the series is a standalone story that can be read out of order. Mail Order Bride’s Baby And Her Mismatched Rancher A mail order bride with a baby mismatched to a rancher with no interest in children… Abbie Hustley thinks her future is secure when she becomes a mail order bride for a rancher in the west. There will be no more singing in saloons, no more late nights. Sam Sayler has everything he wants, a ranch of his own, loyal ranch hands, and a life ...

All her life, she has been seen as second-class. Harriet Orland is the daughter of a former house slave and the man who owned the plantation where she was born. All she has ever known is a life of slavery until the end of the war brought their freedom. But she quickly sees that their so-called freedom is only half won. Life in New York after the Civil War is brutal, with only the most demeaning of menial jobs available to them. After losing her mother to sickness, Harriet is left alone to make ends meet on the streets of New York. Her chance to break away from a life of drudgery is to make ...

A mail order bride who refuses to give in to despair heads further down the pit of despair. Annabelle Buckley suddenly finds herself widowed after the passing of her villainous, abusive husband. She’s free from abuse. But she’s unwanted. When a weaker woman might have given up, Annabelle decides to do the unimaginable. Be a mail order bride. But what decent man would want her? A man who needs help. Brett Tucker is working hard to have his own ranch, and fighting against the unseen demons of his past. He thought the arrival of Annabelle would ease his struggles, until Annabelle’s ...

A mail order bride with an unwanted baby in tow meeting a one-arm Indian husband-in-waiting is nothing short of a disaster… Rachael Jeffers has spent her entire life living, and then working, in an orphanage. Until circumstances give her no option but to flee – with a baby in tow. Her only hope now is a man named Motega, whom she had corresponded via letters. Motega has offered her marriage and a home in the west in Wyoming. Motega has spent most of his life living between worlds. He is from the Shoshone tribe and has been forced to live the life of a white settler because of the ...

There’s no place for you in the world, when you do not even fit in with your family. Wicapiwakan’s life has been a series of tragedies. She has lost her mother, her brothers, her home. All she has left is her father. But her father wants her to marry Ogaleesha, the son of their tribe’s chief – a cruel, dangerous man. She has no choice but to flee… as a mail order bride. Harv Truskett has it all. He is handsome and his family has wealth. But his parents pressure him to marry. When he starts searching for a mail order bride, he does not expect to meet Wicapiwakan. She is Indian and ...

Burned and disfigured as a child, Millie Becker has always struggled to belong. At twenty-eight, her parents still treat her like a troublesome child. Taking a chance, she becomes a mail order bride, hoping to find love in the untamed Old West. Rancher Otto Morris is not expecting that Millie could not ride a horse. And she has a limp. Millie, on the other hand, is not expecting to live in such close proximity to Otto’s ranch hands. She also thinks that the “hard work” advertised in the mail order bride catalog are just going to be cooking and cleaning. But Millie now has to learn to ...

Samantha Brown, a spirited young woman from Nebraska, finds her life irrevocably changed by tragedy. Fleeing the ashes of her past, she ventures westward to Goldenbrook, a small town nestled near the mountains, seeking a fresh start as a mail order bride. Unexpectedly for Gregory Harris, a mountain man known to the townsfolk as the ‘Mountain Whisperer’, Samantha’s arrival at his doorstep marks the beginning of an unforeseen journey – one that will tear him away from the solitude he has grown used to. Now bound by a marriage of convenience, they embark on a journey of survival, trust...

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 ...

No one is as hopeful, nor as patient and courageous as Lottie Dumont. On a promise to her dying mother, Lottie looks after her father even as he grows unkind and on occasion, violent. Despite everything, Lottie will not give up hope. She dreams of a better life. When work takes Lottie and her father to a small Colorado town of Red Canyon, no one is more skeptical of the young woman’s seemingly endless optimism as Deputy James Butler. Worn and scarred by what the world has done to those he loves, James sees only the potential in people to do harm to one another. But Lottie is like no woman...

Sheriff Chance knows he must bring Laura’s father to justice. What he does not expect, however, is to fall in love with Laura... For the last ten years since the passing of Laura’s mother, she has been following her father across the west as he sells his ‘miracle tonics’ from one town to the next. Laura remains filial, but her father’s crooked trade is becoming unbearable by the day. When Laura meets Sheriff Chance of Still Springs town in Colorado, she finds that he is the only person who sees just how difficult her life has become. Then, when her father is accused of poisoning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shamed by a cruel man, a privileged city girl does the unthinkable… becoming a mail order bride. Odette Finch is a woman of means but, when her parents order her to marry a wealthy, though aggressive and cruel man, she refuses. Her only way out is to flee west and try to live the life of romance and adventure. Becoming a mail order bride seems to offer that. Wyatt Owens is a man running from his past. But the town’s sheriff does not trust an ex-outlaw. Wyatt needs help if he is going to leave behind his criminal past in an effort to find a normal life. He needs a bride. When Wyatt and ...

Finding love is never easy for a single mother listing herself as a mail order bride. But it is necessary. Eliza Buell has just given birth to her second child. Now a single mother after the death of her husband, she finds herself alone and desperate for a way to help her children survive the coming winter. With no other option, Eliza opts to become a mail order bride. Arthur Wells is eager to prove his merit in the west, especially when his promotion is stifled solely because he is not married. And there is no better way to get a wife from the mail order bride catalogue. When Eliza arrives...