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Mary Smith was unknowingly sold by her parents into a marriage that she was not willing to agree to. Jackson Peter's parents were tired of him focusing on his cowboy ways and wanted more grandchildren. Jackson wasn't ready, but his parents made a bargain with Mr. Smith, and now Jackson was set to marry someone he didn't even know. When they meet, they discover they have more in common, and he hatches a plan for them to run from the ceremony. Can they get away from their parents, or will they be caught? How will they live their lives on the run? Will they be able to settle down? Read "The ...

After some bad choices, Sophia Mason finds herself pregnant. Out of wedlock, no less! As one of two daughters of one of the wealthiest families in Charleston, this is a horrid stain on her reputation. When the child's father finds out she's pregnant, he refuses to marry her and set things right. Unless she can do something, her parents are determined to send her child away so that she can marry the man who got her pregnant and set her reputation right, hopefully, without much blowback on themselves. Peter Harrington lost his pregnant wife a few years ago. It had been a horrible time in his ...

Orphaned Victoria Medford spent years on the streets of New York City until her thieving ways caught up with her. Arrested for stealing from churches, she served her sentence and tried to start a new life, but with her tainted past, she sees little hope for a promising future. Jed Tyree is a minister in a small Idaho town. He’d love to find a wife, but women are scarce, and no one lives up to his expectations for a minister’s wife. The deacons in his church take matters into their own hands and place an ad on his behalf in The Matrimonial Times, determined to find their preacher a mail-...

Amelia Ross has had a tough time finding a husband in her hometown of Boston. She believes she is very beautiful except for the jagged scar on her face. Is there any way for Amelia to stop obsessing about the scar? And most of the men in Boston that her parents are introducing her to believe that they're above reproach because of their social status. When she is given a suggestion to become a mail-order bride, she at first recoils from it. What can Amelia do to increase her social status? There are stigmas to doing it, after all. What would people believe was wrong with her if she went that...

Paulina Black has struggled with the feelings that come with being a widow for the entirety of the year she's mourned her husband. Going by her maiden name has helped a little, but it doesn't fill the hole in her heart. Now that her year of mourning is done, she is not sure how to go about with life. She thought she'd have a family by now. Without a husband, she's not sure how she'll accomplish that. And she's not ready to put herself back out into society in a courting capacity. Eugene Richardson has been yearning for a family since he moved south of San Francisco for mining work. His ...

When Elizabeth Shaffer’s family came to the United States from Britain, she hadn’t expected to grow up to be struggling to find love. Her father, a cobbler in Washington, D.C., is as successful as he can manage alone. Elizabeth helps, but her father never puts his business above their happiness – which is more than she can say for some people in Washington, D.C. Westley Anderson is a judge for a small town in California. He put an ad out in The Matrimonial Times to find a wife before he moved to California, but it hasn’t gone well so far. Most women are searching to get away from a ...

Amelia Jenkins struggles to understand why her father has been picking suitors who look quite handsome, but have nothing underneath that to facilitate a courtship. She wants to marry for love and passion, not because the man looks good. However, it seems men who look good are the only suitors left in Boston for a woman of twenty-one years of age. Amelia refuses to marry someone she cannot carry a conversation with. Ethan Wyman lost his wife in childbirth. With his child now a year old, he decides that it's time to find someone else to help him around the ranch. Especially so that his son ...

Josephine Taylor has a well-paying job as a reporter in New York City. She loves every minute of it – the action, the adventure, and the fact that it has allowed her to focus on marriage for love instead of keeping herself off the streets. She's had no luck with marriage, and that's all right with her. Until she overhears something outside Tammany Hall about fixing an election and decides to print a story about it. When the story breaks, she starts getting afraid of everything. With a threat against her life, she must flee. In Boston, she searches for a job and a husband when that fails. ...

Jennie Stone and her siblings have never entirely seen eye to eye on how to live their lives. Her brother wants her to stay in town and get married properly, while her sister believes that everyone should be able to do as they please. And Jennie? Well, Jennie has no desire to get married in town. When an opportunity to find a husband through the Matrimonial Times is presented to her, Jennie takes it in stride. She wants adventure. That's the main reason she doesn’t want to marry in a big town. All the men are too boring – priests, pastors, businessmen, that kind of career. No place to ...