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Isabel Merriweather was born to become a southern belle from a rice plantation in South Carolina. When her parents become deceased during the Civil War, Aunt Margaret from Atlanta takes her under her wing. With a knack for trouble and no fiancé in sight, Isabel has grown past the customary marrying age and her aunt has become weary of finding her niece a suitable match. Desperate, Aunt Margaret ships Belle to a northern matchmaker in the hopes an unorthodox approach will succeed. When another mail-order bride in want of a husband and two completely different marriage prospects greet Isabel...

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 ...

Miss Olivia Jane Kennedy is something of a child prodigy when she becomes a published author earlier than anyone could have expected. She also finds herself with a broken heart by the time she’s nineteen. When an opportunity arises to study abroad in England at The London Writing Academy on scholarship, she takes the chance, hoping a change of scenery will do her some good. “Ollie,” as her kid sister, Kendra, has nicknamed her, takes up residence in a Victorian terrace flat on a scenic street in Chelsea. Four years later, she's a successful writer, age twenty-three, and about to ...

A Modern Day "Ruth" Love Story of Regency Proportions The widowed Earl of Essex, betrothed to Lady Juliana ... is hopelessly distracted by the rescue missions for the governess of his three children. When Lady Margaret Colton and daughter-in-law, Lady Georgiana Colton, flee the revolution of Napoleonic France to live with distant relations, Georgiana is forced to accept the position of governess for the widowed Earl's three children. The Earl, however, only has eyes for his intended, Lady Juliana; though there is a certain something, a "je ne sais quoi..." regarding his new governess. Will ...

Wade Beauregard Jefferson, a handsome, rugged man from Cheyenne, has obtained recent employment from newlywed Joshua and Mia Stanton at Silver Aspen Ranch. He is faced with the formidable task of fetching Mia’s cousin, Lady Hazel Jane Brayden, from the stage when it arrives in Belle during an early January blizzard. However, her reputation precedes her. After Hazel has caused an abundance of mayhem at Saxheim Manor, her father packs Hazel off to her cousin in Wyoming. After all, he’s heard Mia worked wonders with her former pupil, Ambrosia. At twenty and one years of age, Hazel has ...

Jenny Lindford is a southern belle from Lexington, Kentucky about to become a mail-order bride in Minnesota. The eldest of five sisters, she worked hard to help her ma hold the family horse farm together while her father was away fighting in the Civil War. Raised to be an independent thinker, she attends Miss Clark’s Finishing School after the war, and then tours England and France with one of her sisters under an aunt’s watchful eyes. However, it seems no one can see what she’s writing in that journal of hers. Philadelphia-born Dr. Zane Beckham has led a privileged life. Not only is ...

Trouble follows Ryan Keller all the way from St. Louis, Missouri to rural Wyoming. Ryan’s plan is to comply with his mom’s request to visit his grandmother in the nursing home, and prepare her home to become a rental. He only wants to do what’s required, and return home to protect his restaurant from threats which could cost him everything he’s worked so hard to build. Marigold Wilson—a dancer and actress from the Midwest enjoying a successful career on New York’s Broadway—has recently relocated to work at The Sweetwater Ranch in Wyoming. After a disastrous relationship with a...

A faith-inspired, "Jane Austen-ish," mail-order bride story... 1875, England Miss Chelsea Careen Stanton, the heiress of Cherrywood Manor and orphaned daughter of a country squire, finds herself in peril. The ward of reckless relations, they have placed her inheritance in jeopardy. She has few alternatives. Marry Lord Thornbridge, a philandering rake of the worst kind, or take her chances as a mail-order bride to Braydon McLane, an Irish-American clergyman, without a Pemberley. Will her ability to see life through rose-colored glasses and romantic Jane Austen novels help her rise to the ...

Madison Monroe finds herself utterly distraught when her fiancé, Chaplain Wilson Jameson, must leave for Afghanistan to serve in a war she doesn’t understand. Knowing he’ll return in six months for their wedding provides little comfort. The excitement of planning their wedding, decorating the farmhouse she recently inherited from her maternal grandmother, and caring for her beloved horse, Rebel, should keep her busy and occupy her mind until November. Still, she panics.

Joshua Stanton, a Virginia widower, and his tomboy daughter, Ambrosia, have settled in Belle, Wyoming at Silver Aspen, his family’s ranch after his wife’s passing. Soon after, he inherits Silver Aspen and the title his pa held, ‘The Cattle King.’ As one of the largest cattle barons in the area, running the ranch is a tremendous job for a Virginia crop farmer who spent most of his life studying philosophy, theology, and agriculture. When Ambrosia is expelled from school in the middle of her term, the weight of the world falls on his shoulders. Lady Mia has inherited her mother’s ...

On the outside, Jill Michaels seems to have it all together. She is a successful New York columnist and travel critic. When she isn’t writing the next book or column from her west side Manhattan office, she’s a single mother to three beautiful children. On the inside, her faith completely shattered when a routine mission in Afghanistan claimed the life of her husband. When she decides to move back to Wyoming to be near family, the last thing she expects to find is a second chance at love when Logan Haven walks back into her life. Logan has been building his dream of transforming his ...

Step into the Victorian Era, Turn -of- the- Century time period with every turn of the page in this inspirational, Christian, coming of age love story! Meet Hannah Jubilee Parker of Brookside Meadow Farm. Travel back in time with her on a journey that begins with tragic and challenging circumstances that threaten to destroy her future; but ends with renewed faith, true love and triumph in finding purpose, hope and meaning in life. If you loved reading Lucy Maude Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables," "Hannah's Garden" is reminiscent of the orphan girl the world fell in love with. Experience ...

Lillie can hardly believe she will finally meet her sister Edith after years of being separated. Disillusioned with small town life in 1920s Wisconsin where her choices and circumstances have led to little more than daydreams and working as a dressmaker, she jumps at the chance to join Edith as a switchboard operator in Anchorage, Alaska. Lillie figures she can get to know her sister and save some of her earnings to fulfill her dream of becoming an actress. She’ll stay long enough to enjoy Edith’s wedding and then head south to Beverly Hills, California to audition for the brand-new ...

Lisa blends the world of southern belles with English aristocracy, Welshmen, and Scottish villagers in her own unique style with the story of Victoria, Volume 3 in the Brides of Grace Hill. Victoria has grown up on the Kentucky meadows and fields of Grace Hill and Sarah Rose Hall, surviving the Great War with her family, unscathed. She’s beautiful, vivacious, and swarmed by one beau after another. None of them have held her heart captive like Lieutenant Langford does for her sister, Rose. When Langford appears to be drawn to Victoria, there’s sure to be trouble. Ridge and Geneva, ...

Senator Andrews never dreamed he’d have to crash land his plane on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. It’s love at first sight for the handsome Wyoming wrangler, McGuire Halston, when the Senator’s daughter, Katie Andrews, steps off the plane and onto his horse; but not for Katie, a successful fashion designer with no regard for ranching. She hates dirt and isn’t fond of animals. Stuck on the ranch while the plane is being repaired, Katie has a knack for getting in trouble and is unpredictable. “Marry Me Katie” may be read as a stand-alone and is a clean, inspirational, and sweet...

The romance continues in the ‘Whispers in Wyoming’ series when Bronson meets Tory, whose teenage kid sister, Harper, enters her in the Miss Lander Beauty Pageant, hosted by The Sweetwater Ranch. There’s fun, trouble, romance, and adventure with Tory being a tad klutzy, and the characters of Jill and Logan Haven jetting off to honeymoon in beautiful Ireland, returning in time to take the kids camping along the Oregon Trail to discover the history and struggle of pioneer life. “No Place Like Home” may be read as a stand-alone. A lighthearted, endearing, clean and wholesome journey ...

Think rebel preacher's kid on the adventure of a lifetime in English countryside. "Abigail's Melody," Volume 2, of 'The Victorian Christian Heritage Series.' You fell in love with Hannah in Volume 1, but wait until you meet the all grown up Abigail. In 1906, ruin and scandal await Miss Abigail Careen Parker in this turn of the century, Victorian Era novel. A coming of age, clean and wholesome story of sisters and family; faith and romance; courage and triumph! When she is abandoned by the man who pledged his love to her, will one mistake destroy the rest of her life? The seventh of ten ...

Bryn is determined to marry Geneva Rosemont, the beautiful vicar's daughter in his Welsh parish, despite being nearly engaged to the sensible Elizabeth Berkley. He is young, handsome, fickle where women are concerned, and the arrogant heir to the Palmer shipping fortune. Geneva's parents also think she should settle into an idyllic marriage with Bryn, but the precocious Miss Rosemont is passionate about her teaching work at the Cardiff orphan mission and writing. She knows Bryn is not the man God has ordained for her. She is far too strong and independent for the likes of Bryn Palmer, even ...

Nicole Maribella Beaumont liked everything exactly the way it was going. She had a practically perfect life with her daughter in their Santa Monica beach house and a fabulous career as an American actress. Why did Drew have to mess everything up by proposing? Then again, they were a happy couple when they were together, weren't they? Drew Fairchild was the sole heir to Fairchild Studios and a Hollywood Legacy. He’d helped build her successful acting career. Marrying him would be almost a dream come true in so many ways. Besides, if she didn’t accept his proposal, where would that leave ...