Inspirational Historical Fiction

You'll get FOUR full-length novels in one boxed set, Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western romance Stories full of heart in this Collection Three(Books 9 - 12) of Twin Creek's Rain Ranch Romance Series boxed set collection by bestseller and Kindle All-Star author Katie Wyatt! When they set out west to become mail order brides, Lizzy, Thea, Arabella, and Milly have no ideas that their paths will cross in the town of Twin Creeks. They don’t know that they’ll soon fall deeply in love with their respective beaus or that they’ll quickly become the best of ...

Girl in a Blue Dress opens on the day of Alfred's funeral. Dorothea is not among the throngs in attendance when The One and Only is laid to rest. Her mourning must take place within the walls of her modest apartment, a parting gift from Alfred as he ushered her out of their shared home and his life more than a decade earlier. Even her own children, save her outspoken daughter Kitty, are not there to offer her comfort - they were poisoned against her when Alfred publicly declared her an unfit wife and mother.

Some mail order brides find love when they least expect it… Zeline LeBlanc just made a huge mistake. Now... She’s got no home. She’s got no job. But this opera singer’s not ready to give up. All she needs is one chance. And Finn is just the man to give it to her. The handsome rancher needs a wife, and Zeline is willing to play along. She never thought she’d be a mail order bride. And... just maybe she can and will love Finn too. But his ex-fiancé isn’t happy. She’ll do whatever it takes to drive the couple apart. Zeline’s not about to give up. Her fiery temper has a way of ...

You'll get FOUR full-length novels in one boxed set, As each woman arrives in town to marry her mail-order beau, she gets drawn into the mayhem. Through every trial, however, the brides’ new husbands stand by their side. Tiny Twin Creeks’, California, has a mystery! When the town’s brand-new mail order brides stumble upon the pieces to an ancient treasure map, the brides suddenly find more than they bargained for in the way of heart-pounding adventure and life-threatening excitement. It will take a lot to solve the mystery—but whatever the treasure turns out to be in the end, the ...

Twelve sweet Regency Christmas romance stories to make you fall in love this holiday season. Christmas Mystery of the Heart Escaping her past, Lady Sarah Sayers seeks a simple life as a governess. Her world is turned upside down when she meets the Duke of Huntington. Together, they must solve a mystery, but will they also find love in this troubled time? A Duke for Christmas Isabella did not want to end up on Charles’ doorstep, but it might be exactly what both of them need… A clean, Regency romance to warm your heart Christmas Masquerade Ball A Christmas tale of mystery and love from ...

No one has ever been on Anna’s side. Will that change in Texas? In 1846, young widow Anna survives the grueling voyage from Germany to start a new life in the promised land of Texas. Forced by circumstances into servitude, Anna is now determined to leave her harsh master. But how can a single woman face the frontier on her own? Texas Ranger Carson Quinn is responsible for leading her party of German immigrants through Comanche territory to their Hill Country. Drawn to Anna’s sweet nature, he watches her persevere through the physical and emotional hardships of traveling through this new...

A sad twist of fate leaves her blind and desperate for a new start. Emily Stewart, a widow and blind woman who has a six-year-old son, agrees to be a mail order bride, only to realize that her intended husband is killed in a fire just days before she arrives out West. Benjamin Hart is reeling after the death of his brother. And Benjamin has to wonder why his deceased brother never tells him about his bride from back East. Benjamin has long dreamed of leaving the dullness of farm life behind and seeking adventure. Especially now that the gold rush has begun, he is eager to sell and be done ...

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 ...

Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western short story romance. Available as a value box amazon.com/dp/B071H3K8WH (copy and paste the link into your browser) follows two generations of the Saint family as they follow their hearts and make new lives for themselves out West, meeting every challenge head on and striving at all times to trust in their faith and love for one another. This enchanting tale illustrates the strength of character and hope that won the West. John Saint has long dreamed of a new life out West. In 1864 he and his wife and small son finally embark ...

No one looks at her twice because of her size… hence she turns to mail order bride. Rosalind Lee has been a large, beautifully curvy woman for most of her adult life. When her father dies and leaves her in the midst of insurmountable debts, she is forced to turn to become a mail order bride. Cassidy Gerber, a single father and saloon owner in Evergreen, Wyoming writes to Rosalind, proposing marriage. When Rosalind arrives, she finds life out west to be far more difficult than she had imagine – made worse when two strangers need to make their marriage work. As self-confidence, natural ...

The only thing harder than being a saloon girl is finding true love as a mail order bride. Jane Thompson suddenly finds herself a widow after her abusive husband passes away. With no way to support herself, she is forced to advertise with a mail order bride catalogue, agreeing to move out to Wyoming to marry a farmer who proposes a home and a peaceful life. But what seems like a blessing at first becomes a nightmare. There is no husband in waiting. Instead, Jane is forced to work as a saloon girl… for the slimy Mr. Cox. Widower Adam Keen is a man who has condemned himself to an uneventful...

A heart-wrenching WWII historical fiction novel set in Nazi-occupied Holland, where love, betrayal, and courage shape the fate of a dancer-turned-resistance hero. Amsterdam, 1939. Edda van der Valk’s life was meant to be lived on stage. A gifted Dutch ballerina, she escapes rivalry and rising fascism to study at a Swiss finishing school, where she finds friendship among other young women destined for resistance—Lili, Océane, Esther, Sable, and Anna. Back in Holland, Edda falls in love with Asher Hoffmann, a fellow dancer from a Jewish family. But their fragile joy is shattered as Nazi ...

Sam returns home one night after an absence of eight years, carousing with bad company. Sam’s father informs his prodigal son that his punishment for leaving is to make the one commitment that ensures he will never leave again: to get married. Clarise believes she is going west as a mail order bride to start a new life. But she is devastated when she learns that: 1) it is not Sam but his father who has arranged the marriage; 2) Sam is not interested to get married. Still, Sam’s father insists on the match. Caught between the warring father and son, Clarise learns about life on their ...

When Maribelle agrees to go west to be the bride to a man she knows little to nothing about, she believes that a peaceful life of hard but honest work awaits her. However she stumbles upon an abandoned baby, and her life is turned upside down. She is made a mother in an instant and her entire future becomes uncertain. Edward is a man contented with his life. He is merely in need of help on his modest, but well-tended homestead. What he does not need is a reminder of the troubled former life that he has worked for years to forget. But when Maribelle shows up, baby in arm, there is no denying...

She longed for love and adventure. She found so much more. Larkspur Linwood yearns for a more exciting future than life as a small-town Arkansas schoolmarm. Mistaking her favorite college professor’s interest for romantic love, she leaps at the chance to serve with him at a missionary school in Kenya. But his ultimate betrayal shatters her heart, and she slinks home in shame. Anson Schafer, director of the Kenyan school, is losing his sight to an eye infection and must return to the States. Finding new purpose in the founding of schools and relief efforts for those struggling through the ...

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 ...

This is an enduring novel of great depth. Beautifully written, it explores how far the human spirit will journey for freedom and love. This story was a real pleasure to read. Highly recommended. Historical Novel Reviews She thought she could outrun her past. . . It is 1811, and the prosperous port city of Charleston is bustling with plantation owners, slaves, and immigrants. Immigrants such as the raven-haired Adalia Winston. But Adalia has a secret: her light skin belies that she is part black and a runaway slave from Barbados. Skilled in herbal remedies, Adalia finds employment with a ...

You'll get FOUR full-length novels in one boxed set, As each woman arrives in town to marry her mail-order beau, she gets drawn into the mayhem., feel-good sweet romance and Christian stories full of heart in this Collection Two of Twin Creek's Rain Ranch Romance Series boxed set collection. Juniper, Emily, Louisa-May, and Eleanor are as different as four women can possibly be from one another. But they do share one thing in common—they’re all mail order brides. Arriving in Twin Creeks, California, in search of true love, the ladies marry their new beaus and then quickly befriend one ...

Desperation is a poor foundation for marriage. Louisa Fay Denton is looking for a fresh start. After her fiance’s death in a Union prison camp, there are no prospects left for her in her little hometown. But with her father’s refusal to let her go West to be a mail-order bride, she will have to decide between family loyalties and making her own way in life. Running away in the dead of night is her only option. Starting a new life as a mountain man’s wife will be more difficult than she could have ever imagined. And her husband-to-be has an arrogant streak that will cost them both. ...

A brutal winter. A starving camp. And the thing in the woods that knows you're dying. If you're drawn to chilling historical horror, tales of human desperation, and the primal terror of being hunted by something ancient — this is the story you've been waiting for. Bigfoot – Donner Party drops you into the snow-choked Sierra Nevada, where the infamous Donner Party isn’t just battling hunger, frostbite, and each other — they’re being watched. As shelters collapse and sanity unravels, something massive, silent, and relentless closes in. This book will make your skin crawl, your heart...