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Bennett Weston doesn't want a wife - instead, he wants a helper. The easiest way to find one is through an advertisement for a bride. When Grace shows up ready to marry him, he's not going to ask too many questions. At least, not until someone from Grace's past arrives in town, looking to collect on an old debt. Will the two of them be able to overcome Bennett's reluctance and Grace's deceit?

Clementine is the oldest girl in the family, and they can't afford to feed the kids they've already got. Making sacrifices for her family, she agrees to marry a man thousands of miles away when the church finds her a match through a mail-order bride catalog.

Four stories of romance and inspiration as women travel into the western unknown in hopes of the love. Imagine using the only social media at the time (postal mail) to communicate with a man across the country and agree to marry. Then having to make the trip in a carriage and meet the man face to face for the first time!

When Sibyl accepted Adam's proposal to join him in the Wyoming Territory, she hadn't expected it would be so quiet and so remote. When the coyotes and the wolves howl at night, and especially when the catamounts scream, Sibyl wants nothing more than to return home to her cantankerous father in New York City. And then there's Adam. He only has a single bedroom, with a big bed for them to share. But they aren't even married yet! Sibyl makes him sleep out in the barn, and almost a week after her arrival, it doesn't seem they're making any progress.

Tillie Montero doesn't want spinsterhood. In fact, she used to be happily married...or so she thought. Now divorced because her ex-husband couldn't abide the thought of a barren wife, she's resigned herself to a quiet existence. It isn't until she sees an ad for a mail-order bride that she begins dreaming of starting a new life again.

Clémentine est la fille aînée d'une famille qui n'arrive plus à nourrir ses enfants. Contrainte de se sacrifier pour aider sa famille, elle accepte d'épouser un homme vivant à des milliers de kilomètres. C'est l'un de ces cow-boys qui commandent une fiancée par correspondance par le biais de l'église.

Saddle up and head west with three women and three separate inspirational journeys...to a better life and frontier men.

Clementine es la hija mayor de la familia y ya no pueden seguir alimentando a los hijos que ya tienen. Haciendo un sacrificio por la familia, acepta casarse con un hombre que está a miles de kilómetros de distancia cuando la iglesia le encuentra pareja mediante un catálogo de esposa por correspondencia.

Tyler is too busy mourning the loss of his fiancée to take much notice of anyone else. When Antoinette shows up at his family's hotel looking to marry him, he couldn't be more surprised. Will Antoinette's quiet resolve and dignified attitude finally win him over and heal his grief?

After her husband dies in the Civil War, Fanny Ryan is well cared for by his extensive family in Boston. However, they would see her alone and mourning her late husband rather than finding her own happiness once more. After answering an ad from a man in the Wyoming territory seeking a bride, Fanny is finally certain that a new life will be hers.