Sweet, inspiring historical romance with heart-wrenching twists.Former nanny, Bethany Jamison goes west as a mail-order bride to escape a lecherous employer who threatens to expose her part in a past tragedy. When she arrives in Wyoming, she's shocked to find her prospective groom, Joseph Milner, caring for a desperately ill newborn, abandoned by her father when her mother, Joseph's sister, died in childbirth.Since he's alone on his ranch, he insists the marriage take place immediately, but in name only. Bethany agrees, hoping to gain time to plan her future, but she quickly loses her heart to the infant clinging to life by a thread-and her new husband.Can their faith and mutual love for this tiny baby keep them together, or will outside forces destroy them all?
He didn't need a wife . . . until he met her. With nothing left for her at home, Hazel Hart takes a chance on becoming a mail-order bride to a rancher in the Colorado Territory. But her dreams of love and family are dashed when she meets her stoic, work-driven husband-to-be. Wade Pierce has neither the time nor the inclination for romance. Love made a shell of a man out of his father, and so Wade's only reason for sending for a wife is to have someone to cook and keep up with the house. But instead of getting the woman he imagined, he finds himself wedded to Hazel--who seems bent on making him into a real husband. Just as Wade finds himself softening toward Hazel, the small incidents that have been plaguing his ranch for months escalate into something much more dangerous. While Hazel is determined to discover who is behind the growing acts of sabotage, Wade fears his business will collapse before they can put a stop to it. If they don't meet the end of their lives first.
Miss Addison Campbell will do almost anything to leave Apple Creek behind, the small Wisconsin town where she grew up. She wants to expand her horizons and see the world. She thinks she has found the perfect opportunity to travel by accepting a position requiring her to move to Oklahoma Territory as a companion, maid, and nanny for Miss Bexley Opal Dellwood. However, Addy doesn't expect her new employer to abandon her baby and surrender him to Addison when they journey to meet Miss Dellwood's future husband, Reed Logan, the man Milly Crenshaw has matched her to marry. Find out what happens next in this inspirational, heartwarming Christian Historical Romance and mail-order bride story taken from another case in the files of the eccentric matchmaker who runs the Westward Home and Hearts Matrimonial Agency. Get your copy today!
Milly Crenshaw does it again when she succeeds at finding a groom for a destitute social butterfly from Fairfax, Virginia. She sends Miss Garner west to marry an Oregon farmer, Sterling Adams, widowed with four children who desperately need a mother while he tries to prove up his claim. Charity Garner, suffering from the shock of an accident leaving her injured and bereft of her parents and their wealth, has two choices. She can rely upon distant relations she's never met before by relocating to England, or follow the tug on her heart to become a missionary wife to Sterling and a mother to his children. Although she may never arrive at finding true love, she decides having purpose and a family of her own is a dream worth pursuing. Nevermind the fact she's suddenly afraid of horses and hasn't done anything of the sort before. When Charity arrives in Oregon, she must hit the ground running with no household or parenting skills whatsoever, accustomed to having servants and hired help for such things, practically raised by a nanny herself. She must also learn to do all of these things while overcoming grief and some new fears brought on by the accident. With no other means of survival, winning her husband's heart is merely a distant dream and hope in the back of her mind. Sterling Adams has buried his wife and infant child named Hope, but he has to admit the mail-order bride he sent for is captivating, full of charm, and a breath of fresh air. Still, he can't shake his losses. Just when he thinks they may have a chance, will a surplus of crops resulting in a community financial crisis devastate his new home and family? Needing cash to survive, he leaves his children behind in the care of his new bride when a friend convinces him to join an expedition panning for gold. It's his only chance, but will the weight of his absence crush his family? Can Charity survive for a few months without him? And can he even find any gold, or is it merely a fool's errand that could cost him everything? Get your copy today of this inspirational, heartwarming Historical Christian Romance and mail-order bride story taken from another case in the files of the eccentric matchmaker who runs the Westward Home and Hearts Matrimonial Agency.
Colorado has bandits, rattlers, and cactus galore... not to mention Jesse and Summer, the town's newest and most hard-headed heroes. Summer Bennett has been at her aunt's etiquette school, and now she is ready to start a life as a mail-order bride. After answering the ad for a bride in her hometown, she is eager to get back to her roots and see her family again. But when her stagecoach is attacked and a handsome deputy comes to the rescue, she realizes the man is her childhood tormentor, Jesse Slade. With Jesse in her life again-and engaged to her sister-Summer is determined to stop the wedding while at the same time, planning her own special day. Perhaps tying Jesse to the outhouse might make things easier than having to deal with his desirous looks and warm touches.
Poor pregnant Rachel, abandoned by a heartless husband on a Western train to an unknown destination. No money. No one waiting at the end of the line. Her only hope is an advertisement on the lonely station wall requesting a cook at the Croxley Ranch. But when her runaway husband is found dead in a gully with a bag full of jewels, the sheriff naturally pins Rachel as an accomplice. Will her new employer, the handsome Duke Croxley, also abandon Rachel to her fate, or fight to see her return to his ranch and bring her child into a warm home rather than a cold cell? Rachel & The Rancher is part of the Mail Order Brides & Babies Series. In each book pregnant brides or brides with babies find love on the Frontier with strong men and faithful fathers. READ THEM ALL... The Surprise Valentine Delivery Rachel & The Rancher Alexia & The Fur Trader Elma & The Sheriff Prudence & The Innkeeper
This is a sweet, clean, mail order bride, historical western romance by your favorite author Faith Johnson. Small town sheriff Rob Durham is man of God, so when he finds a baby abandoned at his door, he has only one choice. Care for the young baby, and find a wife to help him with the task. Although Rob has always thought he would remain a bachelor all his life, he places an ad for a mail order bride. It would be marriage of convenience, he tells himself. A way to ensure the baby has a mother.Margie Green has seen her home devastated by war, and her brothers as well as her fiance killed. With few options remaining, she takes a chance and answers an advertisement from a man out west looking for a mother to his baby. Margie knows she can never love again, and sees this marriage as a way to start a new life for herself and her parents.But love has a will of its own, and can work its way into the most unlikely hearts !
Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together.
When he agreed to guard her, he never bargained on having to guard his heart. Brilliant scientist Linnea Newberry is on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling the Santa Fe Trail with her grandfather, Dr. Howell, on a botanical expedition to Colorado Territory. She longs to be valued for her contributions and not seen as a helpless liability. But at every calamity she faces, her grandfather threatens to send her home. After watching his ma suffer and die in childbirth, Flynn McQuaid has sworn off women and marriage forever. Headed west to start a new life, he has his hands full not only taking care of his younger siblings but also delivering cattle to his older brother. He doesn't need more complications. When Flynn rescues Linnea from drowning during a river crossing, Dr. Howell promptly hires Flynn--unbeknownst to Linnea--to act as her bodyguard for the rest of the trip. As Flynn fights against the many dangers of the trail, he soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all--falling for a woman he's determined not to love.
After her father's death, Lizzy Brookstone, the star trick rider of the all-female Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, loses interest in performing. What she longs for is a life with the Brookstone ranch foreman, Wesley DeShazer, the man who once broke her heart. Meanwhile, Jason Adler, son of the show's new financial partner, comes to help with the show, and Lizzy soon finds him vying for her affection. Ella Fleming is fleeing a forced engagement when she stows away on the Brookstone train. Lizzy finds her and gives her a job in the costume department, but Ella has a dangerous secret that could affect all of their lives, as well as the future of the Brookstone Extravaganza. When Mary Reichert, a former sharpshooter for the show, learns that her brother, August, has been killed at the Fleming farm, she refuses to believe it was an accident. She returns to the show to find the truth, but is she seeking justice or vengeance? As the three women work together to discover how August died, Lizzy strives to hold the show together. Can she keep the Brookstone Extravaganza alive without losing the desire of her heart?
