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Abandoned by his fiancée hours before their wedding, Walker McKay is determined to never let a woman near his heart again, but he needs an heir to inherit his ranch after he is gone. Courting someone new is out of the question, so he'll have to find a wife another way. Wealthy heiress Sara Livingston wants to be married, but her suitors are deemed unsuitable by her unreasonable father. When the opportunity to fill the bill for a mail-order bride...
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1884 - When Rebecca Switzer hears that Jesse Montgomery is near Apple Grove, she must see the rugged but dissolute cowboy who had stolen her heart years earlier. Sheriff Colin Maddox is counting the days until he can quit and follow his dream of starting a church. When a lovely woman, looking travel-weary and lost, gets caught up and arrested with the leaders of a temperance riot, he can hardly believe she is a Plain and simple woman. Nor can he believe...
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The New Guinea jungle holds many fascinations, but not for librarian Johanna Holland. Johanna is simply aghast at the lack of hot showers and ... well ... clothing! She is positive the mission field is most certainly not God's plan for her life, but will that mean letting go of the man she loves?
4) Simple gifts
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When Marlene Queens goes home to put her late Aunt Beth's house on the market and settle the estate, she suddenly finds herself in over her head and fears that the secret she's kept for years may be revealed.
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1886. Jesse Montgomery is feeling restless. Though he's grateful to friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again, surely the Lord doesn't want this reformed rowdy cowboy to stay in Apple Grove forever. When an unscrupulous cattle baron tries to steal Amish land, Jesse intervenes and is wounded. Lovely young healer Katie Miller attends to him while guarding her heart. This sweet Amish widow can't risk falling in love with an Englisch...
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Katie Addison's big heart shows in her caring deeds: opening her home to abused women. Rehabilitating injured horses. Helping Warren Tate mend his broken heart. It's only Sheriff Ben O'Keefe who can't seem to get Katie's attention. When mysterious events turn Katie to Ben for help, is this the chance he's been waiting for?
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Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Not just once, but twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Now her Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling Washington State potato farm. It looks like strengthening her relationship with her sister and improving the prospects of the Blue Bayou farm will be Jules' chief concerns. But when cancer takes the life of her best friend, Jules finds herself caring...
9) Patience
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Patience is abducted in a case of mistaken identity. But everything changes when she escapes her kidnapper and stumbles onto a gold mine. Can Patience make her fortune without losing her heart to Sheriff Jay Longer? -- publisher description
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Following the end of the Civil War, three young women flee a vindictive uncle, as they encounter a young pregnant slave who is looking for freedom, a Cherokee Scout who finds a place of refuge for them, and a group of war-weary soldiers who rescue them from a cotton field fire.
12) Glory
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On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glory reluctantly joins a wagon train of mail-order brides heading for Denver City. But what if her secret endangers them all? And the way the handsome wagon master makes her heart do flip-flops is just plain befuddling! As if five mail-order brides weren't a big enough handful, now Jackson has a fiercely independent young woman to look after, who makes his job harder by insisting she doesn't need help! Jackson...
13) June
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Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer.
Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiancé's vision for an elaborate...
Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiancé's vision for an elaborate...
14) Rainy day dreams
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When the Burgert family moves to Seattle in 1852, Kathryn is convinced her father has destroyed her life. The backwoods settlement offers none of the comforts and culture she loves in San Francisco. She cares nothing for the new sawmill the townsfolk are so excited about. That is, until she meets Jason, a lumberjack with dreams for a bright future. As she comes to know Jason, Kathryn can't help catching his vision.
15) Hope
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Brides of the West series continues with book 3, Hope. As Hope leaves Michigan for Kentucky as a mail-order bride, she is waylaid by bumbling outlaws. She is puzzled by the oddball in the group, the disarmingly kind Grunt Lawson. She doesn't know that Grunt is really Dan Sullivan, the government agent sent to infiltrate the gang. She gets mixed up in a family feud and is kidnapped yet again! Together, Hope and Dan learn that no matter what happens,...
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The McDougal sisters can swindle a man faster than it takes to lasso a calf. When the wagon carrying them to jail falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Unfortunately for Abigail, she's grabbed by a twit of a shoe salesman, Mr. Hershall Digman. She steals his horse and rides off to the nearest town, not giving him another thought-- until she discovers those secret papers in his saddlebags. Could Mr. Digman be a Confederate...
17) Faith
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With the matrimonial prospects in her little Michigan town virtually nonexistent, nineteen-year-old Faith, along with her two sisters, Hope and June, answers an ad for mail-order brides. Before she knows it, she's on her way to Deliverance, Texas, determined to make a success of her marriage to wealthy rancher Nicholas Shepherd. But from the moment she arrives in Deliverance, sparks begin to fly between Faith, a strong-willed tomboy, and her prospective...
18) A bride for Noah
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Penniless and desperate for an adventure, Evie Lawrence moves to the Oregon Territory in 1851, intending to build a restaurant in one of the new settlements there.