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This novelette by Vanessa Carvo contains powerful Christian influences, love, family and other related themes meant to make you smile! Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child.

Mail Order Bride: The Widow Turns The Montana Rancher’s Hardened Heart, presents the story of a widow with a new baby decides to leave her small town and travel to Montana to be the wife of a Montana man she has never met. Her three children in tow, two of which are twin freed slaves, she immediately runs into a heap of trouble as soon as she arrives; meeting the rancher and his bitter son.

Losing Her Cowboy, is the emotional story of Jordyn, a woman who starts out by lying when she begins a correspondence with a rancher in Oregon who has advertised for a mail order bride. All she wants to do is get out west, learn how to run a ranch, then own one herself - just like she and her now deceased father had planned. Under other deceptions, she gets a free boat ride out to the west coast from a mail order bride company sending one hundred women in search of husbands.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Gold of a Different Kind, is about one young woman forced into prostitution, along with her sister, and how she was saved by a lonely preacher in Montana who wanted nothing more than a wife to love and cherish. Without his help they would both have more than likely died. Little does he know that when beautiful Rachel arrives on the train and he sees her for the first time, how many more lives are both saved and loved, and how their eventual union will change their town forever.

The Western Groom: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish, is the story of a trading post operator and a bible salesman. When her Uncle Joe is killed, Penny is left to handle the trading post in a fairly remote area of Colorado. Her store was robbed and she's on the edge of a breakdown and she's lost most of her faith, when a bible salesman she is acquainted with stops by. He stays for a while, then much longer, and helps her get the store back on its feet.

Riding her own horse and dressed in working buckskins, Rebecca shows up at his ranch in California, unannounced, after finding his ad in her newspaper. He begrudgingly lets her stay if she'll cook them three meals a day and do some other 'womanly' chores. This she does not want because she thinks it's a big waste of her talent.

Mail Order Bride: Sent to the Prairie Preacher for Love and Marriage is a story about a young man who has set up a church in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory. When he becomes lonely and wishes more than anything to have a family of his own, he asks for help from an aunt. After anxiously waiting for a letter, he gets one and finds that his mail order bride is due in town in just a couple of days. He nervously waits for her and when beautiful Nadia arrives, he finds himself immediately in love.

Mail Order Bride: Sarah's Damaged Cowboy, is the story of a rancher in Texas, Hawk, who decides to write away for a big city bride from New York. Instead, he gets a relationship which starts out with untruths and a strange lack of empathy, let alone love, between the couple. Added to the mix is Sarah's sister, Susan, and a young ranch hand who works for Hawk, Johnny.

Maggie Saves Three Men From Death After the Oregon Trail, is a gentle story about love and faith and one lone woman on her Wyoming ranch, left by herself except for some transitory ranch hands, after her husband dies. There's a very long period of loneliness before God sends a man and his two sons who are near death after being abandoned by the people on their wagon train traveling the Oregon Trail, to her. What she does later will change four lives, and then many more, forever.

The Indian, the Bookbinder & Abby: An Oregon Trail Journey, is a wonderful and emotional love story about one young woman traveling the Oregon Trail with her father. She is engaged to a self-centered, controlling, and very angry young man. When a young bookbinder spots her ancient family bible, which is falling apart, he tells her he'll restore it for her. Her fiancé becomes enraged and when the bible is completed there is an altercation and someone dear to Abby gets critically injured. This love story has a fulfilling and satisfying ending.

Julia has hopes to meet her true love by responding to a Mail Order Bride advertisement from the west. On the way, Julia is stricken with a severe illness and is scared for her life. She also fears that she will not have a chance to get to know the man that God has led her to. Will she recover? Will the cowboy and his hopeful bride have a chance to know their true love?

Amanda and Cecil Get the Boot is about a young man who takes the bullet for an older man and becomes paralyzed. Stricken with guilt, the older man takes the paralyzed one home and because he cannot remember how he became paralyzed, and the older man's daughter doesn't know the circumstances, the older man has to live under a self-imposed lie, which is tearing him apart.

When Garret the horse rancher's thoughts turn to love and marriage, he is at a loss as to where to find a potential bride. He admires the tough women around him, yet wants a woman from the city. By chance, he's at the telegraph office and gets a letter from a relative back east, wanting to visit, along with her husband and a young woman. They all meet and Garret grows to love the spirited young woman but a few weeks later she tells him something which may change his mind forever.

When Jessie, a woman traveling west to an already established mission, finds a wounded Native American man, despite much opposition, decides to nurse him back to health because she knows it's what God wants. Despite hatred amongst some members of the train for the young man, she triumphs and is able to get him back on his feet, even though another attack almost kills him again.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Well, Hello Dolly - Is it Really You? is a wry look at how one battered by life older woman, her illegitimate daughter, and a whole lot of 'baggage' end up with an old rancher, who happens to also be a preacher out west. What will Gilbert do when he finds out about her past?

The Western Mail Order Bride: Preacher Man and Dinah with the Dark Hair, is a love story about a Civil War vet who is a preacher, and who decides to settle in a Baptist church in Phoenix, in the Arizona Territory. He's there over a decade and feeling quite lonely when an aunt from back east recommends that he meets up with a young lady she has under her wing. He agrees to meet them and Dinah goes to Phoenix. Now, all the preacher has to do is find out why she seems to be carrying a great burden of guilt and sadness deep within her.

A Christian Heart Of Gold In The Yukon Territories is an incredible story about faith and the love for God, among rough gold miners and one Mexican camp cook. It's tough up in the frozen north in 1898 but Maria the cook is determined to both feed the men there and teach them about her faith, the bible, and God. Along the way and facing many obstacles, she finds a strong love for herself in addition to God's love, and enriches the lives of all of the lost souls seeking fame and fortune and riches from the golden ore.

Oregon Trail Honeymoon is about Ida, the daughter of Chastity Skylark, who develops a hankering for the Oregon Trail. She's been living as a mountain woman for years and now it's time to test her wings. She orders up a mail order groom, as well as supplies for the four month trek and they start off on the trail, as she and her new husband Flint consider the four month trek an extended honeymoon. There are many obstacles along the way; not the least of which is simple survival.

Footprints Left After The Wagon Train: An Oregon Trail Christian Story, is a novella about the 1847 journey to the west as told from the POV of a teenaged boy. It's a story about hope, love of God, charity towards others and redemption. There is death, joy, anger, hope and tragedy along the trail as all of the families leave their own footprints in the dusty soil, long after the train has passed on and they have settled into their new lives thousands of miles from their starting point.

He is a good Christian man but has an extreme emptiness in heart ever since his wife and children passed away years ago. After placing an advertisement seeking a mail order bride, the man begins corresponding with a fascinating woman from Boston. He is unaware about a single great and important detail in her life. She is a nun and feels led by God to touch this troubled man’s lonely heart.