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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 ...

Mail order brides don’t expect to find love… but sometimes they get lucky. Mary Jean has a secret. She’s been in love with Jasper since she was thirteen. Too bad he was twenty-four Too bad he never gave her the time of day. Their age difference never mattered. At least not to her. Especially when she saw him risk his life for their neighbor just to have justice served. But eleven years between them isn’t easy to overcome. Until now. Ten years later, and MJ needs a husband. Desperate to care for her aging grandmother, she needs money and a place to live. Fast. This time, Jasper ...

There is nothing wrong for a mail order bride to desire children. But what happens when her husband is unable… At 26 years old, a limped Cora Duke wants to stop being a burden on her family. She decides to marry herself off to a stranger, by means of becoming a mail order bride. Cowboy Derek Masters is a man of solitude. A man running from a troubled past and seeking to build a family at his ranch. When a beautiful and confused Cora sweeps into his life, however, old wounds resurface, especially on the touchy topic of childbearing. Despite their growing affection for each other, a ...

Sarah Smith is a woman out of options. So she turns to being a mail order bride. When a small town welcomes Sarah into its midst, she realizes that her hopes for a happy and normal life are far out of reach. Sarah discovers that she has a serious condition: face blindness. She finds it hard to recognize anyone, and her condition is driving her far from those she loves. Sarah’s adversity is further tested when she gets to know her husband-to-be Stephen Tyler, a pastor expecting perfection out of himself. When they got married, Stephen realizes that his hope for a harmonious lifestyle may ...

Harriet is running for her life, and she is fleeing with her daughter, to the Old West. When Harriet’s unfaithful husband dies, her wealthy mother-in-law threatens to take her child Alyssa away. Harriet is pushed to make a snap decision and flees out west with Alyssa. As the mother and daughter duo head into uncertainty, Harriet is prepared to gamble on another uncertainty – seeking a matchmaking agency to help her marry a stranger and learn how to live in the wild west. Bounty hunter Collin Crawford is a man who needs nothing and no one. While he tries to convince himself that he is ...

Betty “Blue” Yates has single-handedly run the Clear Hollow saloon for the past ten years. But times are changing fast. Her elderly mother has passed away, leaving her truly alone for the first time. Named Blue for her prematurely silver hair, and already considered a spinster by most, Blue has never seen herself as marriage material. Meanwhile, at the foot of the mountain ranges outside Clear Hollow, rumors spread of gold being found in the rivers. The town is flooded with people chasing fortune. One of them is Thomas Harper, a young man come looking for gold and adventure. Looking for...

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...

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 not always about what you say to your love ones, but how you say it. Beth Cartwright is an orphan on the run. After her mother’s death, she is facing a life of destitution. With debts being called in, no prospects for marriage and no protector, she has to do something. And fast. Becoming a mail order bride is her only option. There is one small problem. She hasn’t told her husband-to-be that she comes with a little sister in tow. But she quickly finds her husband has secrets of his own. David Justman is a man haunted by his past. His scars not only mar his skin, but his heart. ...

After the passing of Lucy’s aunt, there is no longer any home for her in Virginia. Her only way of getting by is to reconnect with an estranged sister out west. Once she is in Colorado territory, not only does Lucy realize that life out west is far more difficult and dangerous than she could ever have imagined, she also comes to understand a little more about her sister’s silence over the years. Lucy realizes that it is up to her to reawaken the joy in her sister’s life. Matthew is a man of the mountains. He is proud of his independence, and he plans to keep it that way. Until… Lucy...

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 ...

In the Wild West, passion and peril ride side by side. Catherine Davis, burdened by her parents’ tragic deaths and an impending marriage to an abusive man, has nothing left to lose. When an advertisement for a mail order bride offers a glimmer of hope, she seizes control of her own destiny by embarking on a journey through the sprawling and untamed landscape of the American frontier. Little does Catherine know that her path will lead her to a kind and enigmatic man in California. James Wilson, seeking solace from his dark past, views his newlywed wife as an opportunity for redemption and ...

The life of a saloon girl is all she knows. Leana Connelly never dared to dream of a good life. Her family is long gone. Her only friends are the other saloon girls. When a cruel patron attacks her, she knows she must leave that wretched place. Leana has no one to turn to, nowhere to go. Fleeing out west to be a mail order bride is her option. But who will marry a saloon girl? Her future husband must never know her past. When Val Depue sees her ad, he decides she is the woman for him. But there are secrets about Leana that Val doesn’t know. And there is a man from Leana’s past who can ...

The path of love may at times demand the sacrifice of truth. Caroline has lost everyone; everyone but a baby left in her care. Her abusive husband, Leland, is a danger to her and her adopted baby. The fastest and only way to escape is to head out west as a mail order bride. But… she is still a married woman. And her new husband-to-be must not know that. When Henry responds to her ad, Caroline dares to dream of a better life and flees her house with a baby in tow. As Caroline learns more about Henry the farmer, she forgets her old life and grows fond of him. Though she is aware that she ...

Doctor Thomas Grant is a man accustomed to loss. The widower spends most of his days tending to the town’s sick, trying to get over the grieve of losing his wife and child in childbirth. When Mabel Walker arrives in the secluded Colorado town, however, she shakes things up for Thomas. Asked by a dying father to seek out her half-brother, Mabel comes out west to find that her half-brother is a drunkard, violent and aggressive, and disrespects women. But Mabel is not one to abandon someone in need. She sets to the task of sobering up her abusive brother – a task which proves just as ...

A mail order bride can run from her past, but she can never truly escape it. Alice has never exactly been on the right side of the law, but the West isn’t kind towards women. She did what was necessary to protect her and her sister. The last thing she needs is a husband. What she does need is some place safe to hide. But is there anywhere the law and her past can’t catch up to her? Gabe wasn’t always a man of God. His gunslinger days are behind him, but if anyone found out, he’d be ruined. He needs a respectable woman to lend credence to his story and help him avoid discovery. A ...

An Indian mail order bride is not what she sees herself as, and certainly not what he expects… Ceeh'eenesie's whole family is dead. Her Arapaho way of life is dying. Sometimes Ceeh'eenesie wishes she could vanish as well. But she has a promise to keep. Her dead grandfather wants her to go on, to carry on their ways. And being a mail order bride is her only way. Until… She discovers her late husband left her with a present: a baby in her belly. Marshall Berkley hasn't seen any kin in years. When Marshall’s friend Michael Briggs tells him he's bringing him a bride, the last thing ...

Loving an outlaw isn’t easy, but it’s harder if you do not know you are loving one. When Ellie accidentally gets caught up in an outlaw gang’s escape, gang member David manages to convince his group to release Ellie since her blindfold meant she has not seen any of her abductors. As the outlaws lie low after the bank robbery, David is forced to become a ranch hand at a nearby ranch. He believes it will be just a matter of weeks before he and the rest of the gang are able to slip out of town and escape. But fate has other plans for David Bynes. He soon realizes that Ellie is the sister...

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 ...

It is never easy for an Indian mail order bride to fit in… more so when she has a dreaded burden. Kimimela found a chance to escape her home – and she took that chance. She is desperate to escape an arranged marriage to Mahkah, the chieftain’s son and an abusive man. She is chosen simply to bear child for the tribe’s shrinking number. Her only way out is to become a mail order bride. Flynn Johnson owns a small ranch in the mountains. He knows nothing on the ways of Indians. Yet, he had encounters with Indians. Those encounters are his dark past. He wants to forget. But he will not ...