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Tired of being remembered only for her misdeeds as part of the demon horde, Ernestine Miller agrees to go out West to marry a banker in need of a wife. When she arrives in Montana, she discovers her groom has met with a fatal accident, and she has two choices. She can either find a way to support herself or go back home in shame. So she uses her former fiancé’s home to start a boarding house, happy to have a use for her superior cooking skills. When Clifford Solomon moves to Prairie Dog, Montana, he’s thrilled to find a boarding house where he and his business partner can stay. It ...

Rose didn't expect to even see anyone else in her apartment complex's laundry room on a Friday night. She was usually there all alone. Imagine her surprise when a good looking man walks in and starts doing his laundry. Alex wasn't looking for a commitment. He just needed to do the month's worth of laundry that he'd let pile up. How was he supposed to know that his dream girl would be there?

After years of working in a textile mill in Massachusetts, Grace decides to follow the lead of her friends and go west as a mail-order bride. After posting an ad, she waits for an answer, hoping it will be the man of her dreams. When David “Jack” Smith sees the ad, he immediately writes to the woman who posted it, explaining that he is a farmer and would love to be her husband. Immediately Grace embarks on the journey of her lifetime to meet the man who has asked for her. When they meet, everything seems as if it will go smoothly until Grace realizes she’s married to a very stubborn ...

Gertrude Miller is well-known for her cooking, working for the diner there in Beckham, Massachusetts. When she spots an old crush eating with his new wife, she realizes that there is no chance she will ever be able to find love there in Beckham, where everyone remembers her as a member of the demon horde. After some serious thought, she goes to her sister Elizabeth and asks to be sent west as a mail order bride. Douglas Charleston wants nothing more from life than regular meals. When he writes a letter to a matchmaker in the east, he makes it clear that he’s not worried about looks or age...

Caroline Casey is a romantic in a world of realists. When she decides to leave her privileged upbringing to become a mail-order bride, everyone she knows is surprised, but she is convinced she can make a difference and find true love out west. There are two motherless girls who need her and her special brand of loving everyone around her to make their lives complete. Andrew Dawson is mortified when yet another housekeeper leaves thanks to his daughters’ abhorrent behavior. When the domestic agency he uses refuses to send another housekeeper, he sends for a mail-order bride, expecting her ...

Amy Brown has spent her entire life in a foundling home, from being left there shortly after she was born, and now working there to help the matron. But what she really wants from life is a family of her own. When she overhears a conversation in the home, she feels that this might just be her chance at love. Timothy Stockwell lost the love of his life, and now he’s faced with raising four children on his own. As a rancher in 1898 Texas, raising children isn’t as easy as he would like it to be. He both hated to cook, and he was terrible at it. When he’s told about an opportunity to ...

Becky Brown knew she’d made a mess of her life. Eight months pregnant, and her fiancé has been dead for almost that long. After her parents kick her out, she moves into a boarding house and helps the kindly woman there with chores for half her rent. She wants what’s best for her baby, but how on earth is she supposed to provide it? When handsome stranger, Amos Bowen, shows up at the boarding house and asks her to marry him, her first instinct is to tell him he’s lost his mind. Instead, she finds herself married to him three days later. Can this couple survive the bitterness of her ...

Brenda Brown is one of the few lucky girls from the foundling home where she was raised. She has a good job taking care of three children she truly cares for, and she doesn’t have to live in the cramped orphanage. But she longs for more. When she hears of an opportunity to go west and be introduced to eligible men, she knows she has to jump at the chance. Seth Clinkinbeard loves his ranch. It’s his heritage, and he cares about nothing more than working it and helping it grow into a huge empire. But when he gets the opportunity to meet single women from back east, he jumps at the chance....

Needing to escape her mother’s world of constant dances to find her a husband, Ada Applebottom reaches out to a friend who helps people travel west as mail-order brides. All Ada wants from life is to be a farmer or rancher’s wife. She knows that’s the exact opposite of what her mother wants for her, and she can’t let her mother force her into a life that she has no desire to live. With Elizabeth Tandy’s help, she heads west to marry a rancher. Wade Kelso loves ranching, but he knows something is missing from his life. He writes a letter to a matchmaker, hoping to find just the ...

When Emily's mother decides to marry, her fiance says that 20-year-old Emily needs to find a new place to live before the wedding. Emily has always been exceedingly shy and has no idea what to do. She runs across an advertisement for mail order brides and responds, hoping to find a good situation. Benjamin lost the love of his life just months before. He and his girls need a new mama in their house. Will Emily be the mama they need?

Lisa Allen has spent her entire life being different, and being different was perfectly fine with her as long as her two best friends were at her side. But now both of her friends have gone West to marry Mounties, leaving Lisa without their constant companionship. Lisa’s mother makes her realize she wants to be a Mountie’s wife as well, so she goes to see Miss Hazel, the matchmaker who helped her two friends find happiness. Wesley Jacobson has never known what it was like to have a family, filling the gap with his fellow Mounties and the people he serves. When he hears that there’s a ...

When Heather Flowers realizes she’s been taking care of her mother for more than ten years, and her mother is only pretending to be sick, she decides it’s time for her to leave and start a new life elsewhere. At the suggestion of her mother’s doctor, she seeks out Elizabeth Tandy, who’s known for sending women out west to be mail-order brides. Patrick O’Brien loves his life as a rancher in Clover Creek, Idaho, but with only his mother for companionship, he gets lonely. Ready to start a family and give his mother the grandchildren she craves, he sends a letter to a matchmaker back ...

When Maude is told she must marry a repulsive man, she instead responds to an Iowa farmer who is looking for a mail order bride. After sneaking out of town on a train, she goes to Iowa and marries. She quickly falls for the wonderful man she marries, but does he feel the same? And will she be able to escape her past?

Four books from the incredibly popular River's End Ranch series of sweet contemporary western romances. This box set contains: Short-Order Sheriff: When Kelsi Weston's long-term boyfriend dumps her and leaves town, sheriff Shane Clapper, who has had a crush on her for years, happily takes his place in her life. What could go wrong? Ranch's Retreat: When a girl from Texas goes to Idaho for a writer's retreat, wanting nothing more than to finish a book, what could possibly happy other than falling in love with one of the ranch's horse whisperers? Bridget's Beau: Nurse, Bridget Taylor, is set ...

At thirty-four, Julia had given up on love. She had spent sixteen years nursing her sick mother, and now that her mother had passed on, she had no idea what to do with herself. She answered an advertisement to be a mail order bride, knowing she needed a new beginning. Edward, a Kansas farmer, had been alone for six years since the death of his wife. He was sick of eating his own cooking, tired of living in filth, and more than anything, he was lonely. He sent off a letter to try to find a bride, hoping against hope someone would answer it. When Julia stepped off the train, she was nothing ...

Minnie, a young widow and mother of a small child, finds out she has no money and no place to live after a meeting with her dead husband’s lawyer. When she goes to her church to find help getting a job, Miss Hazel invites her to stay with her and offers to help her find a Mountie to marry instead. She’s certain no one will want her, and she’s surprised when the first man she talks to decides she’s the wife for him. Robert Barret has always wanted children and a wife. When he sees beautiful Minnie in Miss Hazel’s parlor, he knows he doesn’t need to look any further. They marry, ...

After helping countless women find suitable husbands, Harriett is embarking on her own mail-order bride journey, to marry a man whose sister has eight lovely daughters of her own. Her new husband seems to care for her, but doesn't understand Harriett's attachment to her faithful butler Higgins. Will she find herself in another bad marriage, or is this, at long last, her own happily ever after?

Widowed midwife Patsy Lawrence spent too much time working and not enough with her young daughter. She felt like life was passing her by, and she knew Emily's childhood would be over before she realized it. So she took matters into her own hands and responded to a letter for a mail order bride, hoping for a better future for herself and her daughter. Dr. Wesley Hardy was happy with his frontier existence, but he needed a wife to complete him, so he sent a letter to a mail bride agency back East, hoping to find someone compatible. The idea of having a wife who would cook all his meals and ...

Heather McClain has a secret. As she goes about her daily life of teaching dance to the young ladies of Bagley, Texas, she worries about what will happen if people find out. When she goes to grab some tacos for lunch, she runs into a man who she immediately knows is meant to be the man she spends her life with. While Michael Muir is visiting Texas to buy a bull for his ranch, he stops for lunch and his entire world changes. When he spots Heather in the same line he’s in, he knows he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Will he be able to convince her to alter the entire course of...

When schoolteacher Cassandra Brown finds out there will be a matchmaking dance for her and her sisters taking place, she jumps at the chance to be a part of it. Having been raised in an orphanage, she wants nothing more to do with children, and the dance will hopefully be her way of finding a man who will be happy with her becoming a dressmaker. Andrew Forsythe loves his life as a rancher. He has worked toward owning his own spread for years, and now that it’s finally happened, he is ecstatic. The only thing missing in his life is someone to spend it with. Due to a case of the mumps as a ...