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Mandy Chambers is moving to Pepper Gulch, Utah, to become a mail-order bride to rancher Ernest Flinn. But when she arrives, everything changes. Now, her younger sister and Ernest are happily married and expecting their first child. The more Mandy sees the happiness of her sister, the more she wants that same happiness for herself. But Pepper Gulch isn’t a big town, and Mandy despairs of finding someone special.

When the notorious Linch Gang strikes in Rough Creek, Missouri, deputy sheriff Jordan Tredwell finds himself with a big responsibility on his hands - find the Linch Gang and bring them to justice, all while stepping into the shoes of the former sheriff. Jordan pours himself into the task, putting everything else on hold - which worries his mother to no end. Afraid that Jordan will make himself sick - or put himself in great danger, she follows the lead of another local family and writes for a Mail Order Bride...on her son’s behalf.

Justine Russell has lost the man she loves. Now her father wants her to marry the son of his old friend in Missouri. How can Justine leave her native Boston for the Wild West? How can she marry a man she’s never met? Riley McPherson’s father informs him he is to marry his friend’s daughter, Justine. Unwilling to follow his father’s wishes, Riley rebels. How can he marry a stranger? Why should he? Left at the altar by the only woman he’s ever loved, Riley will not trust his heart to another.

Johnnie Calloway is a gifted story teller, and has written a superb personal account of his harrowing childhood, and adult life. Although he retells his experiences of emotional and physical abuse, neglect, heartache, and betrayal, and later his own addictions and struggles with mental illness, he manages to keep the listener thoroughly engaged and inspired by his strength and wisdom throughout this pause resister.

When her betrothed leaves her for another woman, Celina Murray is distraught. Certain that she will never love again, she agrees to a marriage of convenience, arranging to care for two small children of a bachelor guardian. But love is not an option. Carrying his own load of tragedy and rejection, Sheriff Troy Faraday is just as sure that he can never again trust - or love - a woman.

Sally Johnson is sick of her life - sick of the upper class, sick of the social gatherings, sick of the dirty, bustling city, and truly sick of never feeling as though she is good enough. When the odious son of a failing steel baron announces they are engaged in order to marry into her rich family, Sally is truly fed up. Taking her life in her hands, she runs away and decides to become a mail-order bride.

Your personal space is a sanctuary in this beguiling hotel we know only as The Grand, where we are swept away on a course that pulsates like jazz music or paint on canvas. Writing poetry on the wallpaper in his room as a form of therapy, taking long walks, and even sleeping naked in the garden, we journey with this poet in metaphor and subconscious rhythms in a mysterious residence of beauty, while something dangerous and unstable lurks in the world outside.

This tender love ballad is set deep in the jungles of Mexico and tells the story of Victoriano and Mira Bella, a young couple madly in love with "enormous proliferations of passion". Laid out in colorful, poetic text with a creative ending told in two letters - one written by Victoriano, the other written by an American artist visiting their beautiful world.

Life isn’t easy for a Mail Order Bride…especially when the bride isn’t sure she wants to be one in the first place. But when Naomi Paxton is left a young widow, her friend Kate suggests she apply to a bridal agency along with her. At a loss for what else to do, Naomi agrees, and is matched up with a young store owner named Steven Wragley in Rough Creek, Missouri.

Christmas happens everywhere – except in Daniel Whitmore’s house. After losing his wife during the holidays five years before, Daniel has forbidden his children to celebrate any of the traditions they once loved. It seems things will stay like that forever – until his teenage daughter Melina comes up with a plan.

There aren’t many options for a young woman in Philadelphia during the late 1800s — especially if she’s running away from an abusive family. Eighteen-year-old Aimee Mitcham flees the city for Rough Creek, Minnesota, to meet the man she has agreed to marry. As she waits at the train station to meet her new husband, tragedy strikes. Now left alone and surrounded by strangers, Aimee is grateful to be taken in by handsome rancher Gregory Keegan and his spirited mother Sheila.

After a devastating rejection years ago, Bailey Evans has given up on finding love. Instead, he pours his energy into running the frontier town’s Hardware and Tinware Shop with his best friend, Jacob. But when Jacob is brutally killed in a robbery, his final whispered words seem to gesture toward a future Bailey didn’t think possible....Kathryn Sandridge has been discriminated against her whole life. Despite growing up in a loving home in Boston, she worries that her physical appearance - one brown and one blue eye - is too off-putting to attract a suitor.

In this vibrant new story from C.S.R. Calloway, a newborn baby is taken by a Great Storm from his home in the Philippines to the northern shores of Neverland, where he is raised alongside the seven Sandcastle princes by their mother, the King. When the unthinkable occurs, sending the young boy out into a world full of fairies and Never wolves, he faces all-new challenges when the impish Peter Pan makes a celebrated return to the island.

Francis Jones, known as Jonesy, never intends to get married. He is too busy building his future - his small and budding ranch in the foothills of Colorado. But when he is shot by outlaws, the local doctor reminds him of his loneliness and urges him to find a mail-order bride. Jocelyn Baxter, a native of New York, promises her dying aunt she will find a husband in the West. She’ll build a future as a mail-order bride by marrying a man in needs of a wife.

Home again at Planter’s Point, Marcus Tait is a wounded man. He’s long since recovered from the horrific mine accident, but his recovery from the woman who deserted him is far from over. Buried in his work on his cousin’s ranch, he fears he’s destined to become a lonely, bitter old man, one who will never love again. Six months a widow, Jessica Archer finds every day a struggle. It isn’t just the loneliness and grief - it’s trying to raise her five-year-old son in her husband’s childhood home, with her cold, overbearing in-laws blaming her for Seth’s death.

Life in Rough Creek, Missouri, isn’t easy - especially if you’re the older brother of the most daring, troublemaking young man in town. Spencer Ludlow has spent his entire life trying to rein in his half-brother Markus, with only middling success. He’s willing enough to keep trying, but with the harvest season coming on, he’d like a little help. Besides, he’s got something more important to focus on - Tina Webber, a young lady from Boston, who has answered his advert for a Mail Order Bride.

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