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With both parents working all hours and four younger brothers at home, the care and keeping of the household is squarely on her shoulders. When her father forces her to find a job in addition to everything else, it proves to be too much. Desperate for a way out, Mandy agrees to become a mail-order bride and marry a man she’s never met—a ranch hand named Matthew Bostwick, in Mine’s Place, Colorado. But traveling from Boston to Colorado is just the beginning of Mandy’s journey.

After fleeing Virginia, Temperance Tucker and her family established an inn along the Shawnee River. It's a welcome way station for settlers and frontiersmen traveling through the wild Cumberland region of Kentucky—men like Sion Morgan, a Virginia surveyor who arrives at the inn with his crew looking for an experienced guide. When his guide appears, Sion balks. He certainly didn't expect a woman. But it is not long before he must admit that Tempe's skill in the wilderness rivals his own. Still, the tenuous tie they are forming is put to the test as they encounter danger after danger.

When Lillian Hart travels West in late December to marry the beau she’s been writing to through correspondence courtship, she expects to enjoy the most passionate and romantic Christmas ever, despite her parents’ protests. But instead of rushing into the welcoming arms of her beloved, what she finds is an empty lodge with a kindly proprietress who tells her that her fiance has not arrived yet — and doesn’t even have a reservation! Heartbroken and abandoned, Lillian feels her dreams crumbling around her. All seems lost until Nick, a kindly local cab driver with good samaritan ...

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.

When Dolly Christal, a refined bride-to-be from the East Coast, steps out of her train for a breath of fresh air at a whistle-stop in Colorado, little does she imagine that the doors will close on her, leaving her stranded in the middle of nowhere right before Christmas and unable to reach her fiance in Denver. Fortunately, Yule Harken, a stranger with problems of his own, takes pity on the devastated young woman and invites her to stay with him and his sister at, of all places, a reindeer ranch. Country life is hardly a welcome experience for the cultured Dolly, who frets over what her ...

Ivy Hall has always dreamed of a Yuletide wedding. As she prepares to walk down the aisle on Christmas Eve, everything looks perfect, with the church decked out in greenery, soft candles glowing, and favorite carols playing in the background. In the final moments before she joins her true love, Blaze Shepherd, in holy matrimony before a nave packed with eager townspeople, there’s only one problem: The groom's not there! Ivy is so bereaved when the wedding is canceled that she’s packed off to a hot springs healing resort where the doctor suggests that besides a change of scenery, the ...

Wambleeska, the youngest son of the Lakota Chief, has grown up in a changing world. Gone are the days of his forefathers. Now, the future is bright with possibilities, and Wambleeska is ready to join his people in this exciting new world. There is just one problem. Unlike his brother, who recently found love and happiness, Wambleeska has felt no connection with any of the women from his tribe, or even the ladies belonging to the nearby settlement of Daisy Creek. Longing for a family of his own, Wambleeska decides to take matters into his own hands and advertise for a mail-order bride.

What is Valerie Mayfield to do? Her stepfather sold her into marriage with a shady saloon owner in a small town in Texas. But her husband-to-be has no intention of marrying her. He wants her as a saloon wench. Risking her life, Valerie flees during a blizzard, finding the only person in Texas she can trust....

Independent young Kate Porter envisions a future far greater than the middle-class existence she's always lived, and her work as a governess is simply a means to an end. The glittering world of a society wife calls, and her new position as a private tutor for the children of Mr. Alonzo Colaco is a step in the right direction. She merrily imagines the grand house awaiting her - but when her new employer meets her at the train station driving a gaily-painted gypsy wagon, Kate suspects her new job as a children's tutor will not be all she dreamed.