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When Esther Carruthers realizes her father had been embezzling from her fiancé's father's bank, she doesn't expect her life to change. After her fiancé immediately ends the engagement, she is shocked and dismayed. Her younger sister-the thinker in the family-convinces her to talk to a matchmaker, and she immediately agrees to marry a rancher in Montana, somewhere she's never been, and no one knows her.Brody Finnegan has worked hard for the past...
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Julia Simmons had spent her entire life studying hard to become a teacher. Finally, she had her first assignment, in a small Texas town, and she was on her way. When the stagecoach dropped her off, the only man nearby kissed her, acting as if he'd been waiting for her. She couldn't seem to make him understand she wasn't his mail order bride.When she found herself married an hour later, she was clueless as to how to handle it. How would the school...
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When Ellen and her sister, Malinda, are forced out of the only home they've ever known by a local banker after the death of their father, they answer an advertisement placed by Harriett Long for mail order brides. Ellen chooses to marry the sheriff of a small town in Colorado while Malinda agrees to marry his brother, a banker. When they arrive, each sister is immediately drawn to one of the brothers….too bad it's the wrong one! They each had specifications...
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Amelia Beckham, an orphan, sees the world through eyes filled with wonder and joy. Her spirit, untouched by life's hardships, finds beauty in the most unexpected places. When she answers an ad to become a mail-order bride, her heart flutters with anticipation, not fear. She knows not what awaits her, yet she strides forward, her faith unwavering.Anthony Martin, a widower who weathered by life's storms, carries the weight of the world on his shoulders....
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Francine "Frankie" Weston is an independent woman. She moved to Idaho to homestead with her older brother at the tender age of seventeen, pretending to be a man. Now, at twenty, she's ready to marry, but she doesn't want to admit she's deceived everyone, so she sends for a mail order groom-one who's willing to take her last name. She doesn't think it's possible, but she's willing to wait for just the right man to make her happy.Wallace Miller, a former...
6) Vicki's Vows
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Vicki Williams meets the man of her dreams in church one Sunday. The only problem is he has to go all the way to Oregon City and come back before they can even court. But he promises her he'll be back in the spring. John Abbot returns to Clover Creek as soon as the snow melts. The journey seems to take forever as he knows Vicki is waiting on the other end. One of the first things he does upon arriving in Clover Creek is to call on her and ask her...
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Frederica Hughes felt as if life were passing her by. She had a good job teaching school in the small town of Salmon, Oregon, and she finally had good friends she felt she could bare her soul to, but there was still something missing. When her friend Doris proposed sending for a mail order husband for Gretchen, who was seven months pregnant and unwed, she hoped for the best for her friend, but still felt badly for herself.Darryl Miller has always...
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Berniece Johnson wants more from life than marriage to an old man who wants to beat her, but her parents believe he's exactly what she needs. In a desperate attempt to take control of her life again, she goes to see Elizabeth Miller, the town matchmaker. Elizabeth has her on a train a short while later to meet up with Elizabeth's sister Charlie and to marry a man in Missoula, Montana.Kane Burton has no desire for another wife. He buried his wife just...
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Caroline Casey is a romantic in a world of realists. When she decides to leave her privileged upbringing to become a mail-order bride, everyone she knows is surprised, but she is convinced she can make a difference and find true love out west. There are two motherless girls who need her and her special brand of loving everyone around her to make their lives complete.Andrew Dawson is mortified when yet another housekeeper leaves thanks to his daughters'...
10) Mail Order Mate
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Kate Jessup is a talented seamstress and unwed mother whose life is as intricate as the patterns she sews. Her world collides with Emmett, a rugged rancher whose heart is as vast as the ranch he tends.With a mother who harbors a bitter resentment towards Kate, Emmett's world is fraught with tension. Yet, when circumstances compel them into a marriage of convenience, they navigate unfamiliar territory. They must learn to coexist amid the rustling prairie...
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Joy Miller loves life. She's happy to be able to spend time in the fields helping her father and is willing to work for anyone who needs some harvesting or planting done. But she feels like she's ready to marry and leave her demon horde existence behind. Thomas Worthington is a wealthy bank manager from Boston, who needs a wife to help him with clients and entertaining. He decides to contact a matchmaker to provide him with a mail-order bride. When...
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Malinda thinks her life is over after the death of her father and her subsequent eviction from the only home she's ever known. She, along with her sister, answers an advertisement for mail order brides and their lives change. She agrees to marry a banker in a small town in Colorado, because she refuses to be afraid of where her next meal will come from ever again. When she arrives in Colorado, she immediately falls for the handsome gentleman who picks...
13) Mail Order Match
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Since Bridget Mitchell was two, it was just her and her father. As her father nears the end of his life, she has no idea what she will do after his death. All that she knows for certain is that she cannot live in the house she's always been in.When Elizabeth Tandy comes into the post office where Bridget works, she tells her to come see her because she has a letter she believes was written just for Bridget-a letter to become a mail-order bride.Felix...
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Susan cannot stand living with her eleven younger siblings for another minute, so she answers an advertisement for a mail order bride, carefully choosing a man who has never married and has no children so she won't be plagued with other people's ill-behaved offspring. When she arrives in Fort Worth, she finds out her fiancé has been killed, and his older brother is offering to take his place. The only problem is his brother is a widower with four...
15) Fearghas
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Caitlin Stewart carries the world on her shoulders. Orphaned by the merciless black death, she has become the sole protector of her younger siblings in the rustic village of the McClain Clan. Her strength earns her the admiration of her fellow villagers-and the heart of Fearghas McClain. Fearghas, the future laird of the clan, is a man of power and prestige. Yet beneath his tough exterior beats a heart that has always yearned for Caitlin. Seeing her...
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Mabel Brida loves her job working as a cook for a family of means in Beckham, Massachusetts. What she doesn't love is her employer chasing her around town, trying to catch her alone so he can make improper advances.When Bernard Tandy spots her being backed into a corner by her employer, he takes her home to his wife, hoping Elizabeth can find her a better life out west as a mail-order bride.Walter Caldwell lost his wife just days after his third daughter...
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When Heather Flowers realizes she's been taking care of her mother for more than ten years, and her mother is only pretending to be sick, she decides it's time for her to leave and start a new life elsewhere. At the suggestion of her mother's doctor, she seeks out Elizabeth Tandy, who's known for sending women out west to be mail-order brides.Patrick O'Brien loves his life as a rancher in Clover Creek, Idaho, but with only his mother for companionship,...
18) Mail Order Maid
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Josephine Gray leaves the only life she's ever known to escape her lecherous employer, going west to marry a stranger. She knows next to nothing about the man she will meet other than his name when she arrives in Montana. A former maid, she worries that she won't be the kind of wife the handsome stranger needs.
Gustav Schmidt sends for a mail-order bride as soon as his ranch is capable of supporting a wife. He's not terribly worried about much about...
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Having watched the marriage of his father and stepmother for most of his life, when Albert Dailey feels ready for a wife, he decides to send for a mail-order bride. As a cattle rancher near Fort Worth, Texas, he is finally on his own and working hard to make all his dreams come true. The one dream left is a wife and children, and he pursues that with the same singular intention with which he pursued his dream of being a rancher.
Alice Miller is bored...
20) Jane's Journal
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Jane Davies-a new pregnant widow on the Oregon Trail-spends too much of her time thinking about what could have been. To help herself as well as others, she offers to help a family with three young children whose mother has passed by cooking their meals for them. Her only intention is to help the other family. Soon she finds herself falling in love with the three children in the family she helps.Matthew Henderson cannot believe his bad luck. His wife...
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