Inspirational Historical Fiction

Jessamine Grant is strong-willed and independent. All her life, she’s worked hard to carve out her own path, even if it doesn’t always fit with society’s ideas of what women should be allowed to do. While successfully running a boarding house in Cripple Creek, Colorado, makes Jessamine proud, she also can’t help but notice that her dear friends are finding love all around her, and she hasn’t found the same. When she stumbles upon Duke Rollins’ encampment, she’s immediately intrigued by the handsome carpenter. Duke is also captivated by beautiful, stubborn Jessamine, but the ...

Lauren Brown, daughter of one of Cripple Creek’s founding families, is an anomaly in town. She wears pants and works the family farm alongside men. She’s strong, loyal, smart, and independent, all qualities that endear her to the townsfolks even when she occasionally gets into trouble for her less than traditionally womanly ways. In particular, her father, Jack, despairs at his daughter’s atypical behavior. When Cripple Creek’s old pastor passes away, Lauren can’t help but think that the young, handsome pastor from the next town over would be a perfect replacement. As it turns out...

After Tessa lost her parents suddenly and finding herself both incredibly wealthy and entirely alone, Tessa decides to return to the first place she ever called home. But Cripple Creek doesn’t take kindly to what they call Tessa’s new “airs,” and even Blake Donahue, the boy Tessa loved in childhood and still loves now, is less than warm and welcoming. Initially, he and Tessa butt heads, but as Blake begins to see that the woman he still loves hasn’t really changed all that much, he realizes maybe the problem lies with him. But will he get the chance to tell her that when danger ...

*****Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B09X3NM1YW (copy and paste the link into your browser) ***** When Mary-Jo Young sets out to meet her fiancé, Benjamin Nelson, out west, she carries several saplings from her father’s Florida farm with her. Luckily, she also carries a good deal of courage because she’ll need it when she’s in a terrible accident even before she has a chance to meet Ben. When they do finally cross paths, she immediately knows this is the man God wants her to spend forever with, but first, they have to contend with the men trying to destroy Ben’s farm …...

Available as a value box set (Pioneer Wilderness Romance Complete Series) amazon.com/dp/B0743DNQTG (copy and paste the link into your browser) It’s 1887 and love is starting to sprout in the promising land of Mankato, Minnesota. Meet Hannah, she was raised in an orphanage and does not remember any family at all. She does not believe in love. She’s been helping out with cooking, cleaning, and teaching some of the other kids. However, now she’s turning 18 and has to decide if she will stay there as a worker and receive a small stipend, room, and board and continue with this life. Or ...

On the verge of abandoning the fur trade in Montana Territory circa 1886, Frenchman Rene Dubois rescues lovely trespasser Brynelle Merriman from a line of traps set to catch a pesky beaver. Uncommitted to staying in Mustang Pass despite appeals from friends Chance and Argus, Rene becomes drawn to the fleet-footed daughter of the new mercantile’s owner, but cannot persuade her to run in his direction. Building shelves for the store sets him in better position for feminine attention, but he scarcely gains ground when trouble threatens Granite Mine. As the women retaliate, Brynelle ...

American Mail order brides of the West, historically inspired clean and wholesome short story romance. Best Selling Author Kat Carson! Southeastern Oklahoma Winter 1877 The unknown challenges of southeast Oklahoma Territory in the late 1800s test the faith, grit, and determination of three sisters relying on their hopes of finding true love as they travel westward as mail-order brides. Unforeseen challenges confront them every step of the way - from the Jesse James gang to the challenges of the rugged wilderness. Journey into the Old West with them as they overcome emotional struggles and ...

Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. Hannah, bookish and calm, can coax plants to grow even when the weather is bitterly cold. Sarah, defiant and strong, can control the impulsive nature of fire. And Levana, the fey one, can read the path of the stars to decipher their secrets.

When everything you know and believe is telling you "no", do you have the strength to listen to the true voice of your heart? Far away in Iron Creek, stagecoach driver Nelson Gustavson is fighting his own loneliness and places an advert for a bride. As replies flood in, he begins to fear that he’ll have to settle for someone, or search hard to make a connection. That is, until he finds Bronwen’s letter, a blunt and honest reply that he feels compelled to respond to. As Bronwen and Nelson connect through their letters, she feels his warmth radiate through his honesty.

Bryn Farrell, the youngest sister of Darcy in Bandit Bride, grew up in Dodge City’s heyday as a cattle town. Rudderless since her fiancée’s death, she crashes into Ty Shelton, an old nemesis from school, as he is racing to the last of the big fires of 1885 with a bucket of water. She is drenched with freezing water, but her spirit is not quenched, and she returns to help fight the fire. Practical and reserved, Ty is a wheat farmer who takes care of his widowed mother and younger brother. When he rescues Bryn from the first blizzard of the big “die-up” of 1886 and must take her home...

Available as part of a super value boxed set AMZN.COM/B084JRTQW6 (copy and paste the link into your browser) Meet Mary, a young woman wanting to find love, but being forced into accepting marriage proposals from old, undesirable bachelors. Mary’s father is ready for her to be engaged to anyone – as long as they have a house and money to their name. In a desperate attempt to find a husband on her own terms and control her own destiny, she answers the call to head west where she meets and marries John, a veteran of the War Between the States. Will the guilt John carries from the war ...

Widow Martha Patton has memories of a beautiful marriage cut short by the kidnapping of her daughter, and the mysterious murder of her Sheriff husband, Jonah. In the autumn of her life, Martha is living with their adopted son, Sheriff Tony, who she and Jonah gave a second chance and raised after he killed a man. When Martha learns she has a cancer diagnosis, will she trust in God that even in brokenness, the Redemption of Christ has called her into a Perfect Plan? And will she keep to her resolve not to tell Tony about the cancer? The first in the five- novella series of ‘Redemption at ...

A Hope Renewed Miriam Stoltzfus never imagined love could find her again. After the sudden loss of her husband, she devoted herself to raising her daughter and tending the farm they built together. But when Aaron King—a man from her past with a reputation for leaving—returns to Willow Creek, old wounds resurface, along with feelings she thought were long buried. Aaron has spent years trying to escape his past mistakes, but coming home means facing them head-on. Determined to prove he has changed, he throws himself into hard work, seeking redemption in the only place that ever truly felt...

When Olivia Dawson returned home one rainy Autumn afternoon, she could never imagine her life as she knew it would change dramatically. She finds an injured and unconscious man close to her cottage and takes him back to her home. After three days of nursing him back to health, a search party arrives at her cottage, and Lord Falmer identifies the injured man as his cousin, the Duke of Penrith. In a surprise decision, the Duke requests Miss Olivia stay at the estate until he regains his memory and recovers completely, as she is the only familiar thing in his life at that moment. When Lord ...

Each year Louisa Hamilton allows herself one dream, one hope, one prayer which she asks God to give her as her Mistletoe Christmas gift. God has always answered. This year she’s prayed fervently, but has she made a terrible Mistletoe Mistake? It’s 1880, and the Brahmin Elite, families who sailed from England on the Mayflower, rule tight-laced Boston. To safeguard the family wealth, heirs must marry heiresses. The gene pond is small and suitable choices few. The pool shrinks to a puddle when first born females must marry before their younger sisters. What if the first-born daughter is ...

Available as a value box set www.amazon.com/dp/B07634VX9W (copy and paste the link into your browser) It’s time for Betsy to come clean and tell her husband, Jim, all about Simon, the man she fell in love with. Her secrets are about to be exposed, and Betsy fears she has everything to lose. Will learning the truth mean losing Jim? Is Simon the man she should have married all along? Is Simon the man she should have married all along? Does it matter what her heart wants if the trial proves to be too dangerous? Betsy’s come a long way, though her next adventure will be the most dangerous ...

Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western short story romance. Available as part of a value boxed set: www.amazon.com/dp/B071JJY5QY (copy and paste the link into your browser) Meet Hattie, a school teacher from Missouri who was jilted just before her wedding. Feeling completely rejected, Hattie agrees to be a mail order bride to a farmer out west. Reuben Grant, her new husband, is handsome and a hard worker. Unfortunately, she did not know his mother and 3 brother’s lives with him and Ma has no plans to let a new woman take charge. -Will Hattie be little more than a...

The matchmaker’s son, Josiah Milton, finally falls in love with a bride from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Miss Julia Sullivan has stolen his heart. A breath of fresh air with a humble teaching background, she’s not like the other brides. Julia doesn’t have numerous trunks for him to hoist upstairs. Nor is she invasive and eccentric, like Miss Rose MacPherson, a wealthy socialite housing a flying contraption in his barn while waiting for Ella to find her a husband. Then Julia comes face to face with a shocking discovery about her already difficult past. Her world turns upside...

The Winter Rose of Northumberland A love tested by scandal. A past shrouded in whispers. A place she never truly belonged—until now. When Eleanor Whitmore’s father, the village parson, dies, she is left with nothing but a tarnished name and a town full of whispers. Langmere has never fully claimed her as its own, and when rumors of her mother’s mysterious past resurface, Eleanor is faced with a choice: stay and fight for her place, or leave behind the only home she has ever known. Nathaniel Grahame is a man forged in war, tasked with rebuilding the estate of a noble family that has ...

Emily Williams is an intelligent and hopeless romantic. She heads west and marries Tony Banks, owner of a large sheep farm in Oregon. Emily is brokenhearted that all her dreams of romance seem to have imploded. Then Tony doesn’t come home one snowy evening and … Six Sisters For Bear Creek Book 1: Sadie’s Adventure Book 2: Emily’s Dream Come True Book 3: Susan’s Truth Book 4: Diane’s Healing Heart Book 5: Laura’s New Family Book 6: Helen’s Hope Read all Mega Box Set Complete Series Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B0854K9DVX (copy and paste the link into your ...