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  Texas Trilogy (Lorraine Heath): Book 1

  Texas Destiny

  by Lorraine Heath

  Arriving on the Fort Worth train, Miss Amelia Carson, mail-order bride, had never met Dallas Leigh, the Texan she promised to marry. The tall cowboy at the station wasn't Dallas. He was Houston, Dallas's brother, sent to escort her on the rugged three-week trek to the ranch where Dallas waited. Brought up in war-ravaged Georgia, Amelia thought Dallas's letters made Texas sound like heaven, a place for her dreams... (more)
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  The Newlyweds

  by Nell Freudenberger

  From one of America's most dazzling talents ("Young writers as ambitious--and as good--as Nell Freudenberger give us reason for hope." -- The New York Times Book Review ) comes a cross-continental love story: a brilliantly observed, warmly engaging novel about the exhilarations--and complications--of getting, and staying, wed. Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she leaves Bangladesh for Rochester, New York, and for... (more)
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  Texas Boardinghouse Brides: Book 1

  The Anonymous Bride

  by Vickie McDonough

  Check yourself into the Texas Boardinghouse Brides series by Vickie McDonough, where you’ll meet Luke Davis, marshal of Flat Rock, Texas, who flippantly tells friends he’d get married if the right woman ever came along. When three mail-order brides are delivered to Luke a month later, he’s in an uncomfortable predicament. How will he ever choose his mate? Rachel Hamilton’s long-time love for Luke reignited with is... (more)
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  Morning Comes Softly

  by Debbie Macomber

  Single librarian Mary Warner answers an advertisement placed by Travis Thompson and travels to the brutal mountain region where he lives with his motherless children to become his wife.
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  Patterson-Cannon Family Saga: Book 1

  Duncan's Bride

  by Linda Howard

  Hoping to meet a no-nonsense wife who will help him on the ranch while raising a family, Reese Duncan simultaneously hopes to avoid a woman like his crushing first wife and finds more than he bargained for in Madelyn Patterson. Reissue.
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  Tender Is the Storm

  by Johanna Lindsey

  Headstrong heiress Sharisse Hammond wants no part of the New York society marriage that has been arranged for her. So she heads west across a vast and dangerous land -- with no intention of honoring her agreement to become the mail-order bride of a rugged Arizona rancher. But Lucas Holt needs a wife -- any wife -- if his plan to destroy his most hated enemy is to succeed. And this gullible Eastern lady would do... (more)
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  Flowers: Book 4

  Come Spring

  by Jill Marie Landis

  Heading west to seek her fortune, Boston-bred Annika Storm is abducted off a train by Buck Scott, a rugged frontiersman who mistakes Annika for the mail-order bride he is expecting.
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  Silhouette Romance: Book 539

  Mail-Order Bride (Silhouette Romance 539)

  by Debbie Macomber

  Caroline Myers had been eighteen when she'd first discovered how potent her great-grandfather's recipe for "tea" was. So, when her two maiden aunts suggested a vacation in Alaska, Caroline was sure they'd overindulged in the family brew. Why go now-especially right after she'd just been jilted by her fiance?But Caroline didn't know that her well-meaning relatives had cooked up a scheme. They thought that... (more)
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  Summer Moon

  by Jill Marie Landis

  Acclaimed author Jill Marie Landis has gifted readers with award-winning love stories that express the most intimate longings of the human heart. With unique insight and irresistible wit, she breathes vivid life into her characters while depicting superb settings of stunning beauty and realism. Now, in her long-awaited hardcover debut, Jill Marie Landis tells the tender tale of a woman without choices who risks... (more)
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  The Inconvenient Bride Series: Book 1

  The Bride Wore Spurs

  by Sharon Ihle

  Kathleen Lacey O'Carroll knew she faced an uncertain future when she arrived in Wyoming as a mail-order bride--especially when she learned that the man she was to marry hadn't actually ordered her. How could John Winterhawke, a fiercely independent and unsettlingly handsome half-Indian, possibly make room in his heart and in his life for her?As far as Hawke was concerned, the last thing he needed was a... (more)
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  The Bridal Veil

  by Alexis Harrington

  She was his bride in name only. Could she teach him to trust in love once again?Emily Canon is not the mail-order bride Luke Becker expected: plain and tall, Emily has taken her sister's place as Luke's bride. And she is far from the woman Luke thought he wanted. Arriving in Oregon with nothing but the gown and veil her sister had intended to wear, Emily has nowhere to go and is in more desperate straits than she... (more)
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  Brides of Prairie Gold

  by Maggie Osborne

  FATE BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER ON A JOURNEY THAT WOULD TEST THEM, CHANGE THEM, AND GIVE THEM A CHANCE AT LOVE...The twelve women from Chastity, Missouri, meant trouble for wagon master Cody Snow. He was used to transporting guns and whiskey, not mail-order brides. Then he looked into the beautiful, defiant eyes of Perrin Waverly, a woman who had a past as painful as his own, and discovered an even bigger... (more)
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  Heart of the Prairie: Book 1

  Waiting for Summer's Return

  by Kim Vogel Sawyer

  After losing her husband and children to typhoid, Summer Steadman lacks the desire to forge ahead to Oklahoma. Instead she seeks employment in the small Mennonite community of Gaeddert, Kansas, to be near the graves of her family. Widower Peter Ollenberger, the local gristmill owner, needs someone to teach his son. When he hears of a "learned woman" in town, he believes she is the answer to his prayers, despite... (more)
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  Sarah Plain and Tall: Book 1

  Sarah, Plain and Tall

  by Patricia MacLachlan

  "Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sara Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Ana, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah desides... (more)
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  Mail-Order Bride (Avon Romance)

  by Maureen McKade

  Kate Murphy arrives in the Rocky Mountain mining town as a mail-order bride--just in time to discover she's a widow before she's a wife. Looking to earn the stagecoach fare out of this dangerous town, Kate never expects the true peril to come in the tantalizing form of Trev Trevelyan. A MATCH Kate Murphy arrives in the Rocky Mountain mining town as a mail-order bride-- just in time to discover she's a widow... (more)
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  The Unexpected Wife

  by Mary Burton

  He Could Never Love AgainOf that, Matthias Barrington was certain, despite the well-intentioned meddling of his neighbors. But now they'd sent him a special delivery in the form of the very comely Miss Abigail Smyth, who'd stepped off the stagecoach and announced that he needed a wife -- and she was just the woman!Mail-order bride Abby Smyth just wanted a place to belong -- preferably at... (more)
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  The Surgeon

  by Kate Bridges

  A wife shouldn't be a surprise package. But Mountie surgeon John Calloway suddenly found himself saddled with a special delivery he hadn't signed for--mail-order bride Sarah O'Neill. He had no room in his life for marriage! But why then did he feel compelled to protect Sarah from all things dark and dangerous--including her own unspoken past? If John Calloway didn't want her, fine! Sarah would survive--and ... (more)
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  Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek: Book 2

  Too Rich for a Bride

  by Mona Gansberg Hodgson

  With a head more suited to bookkeeping than a bridal veil, Ida’s dreams include big business- not beaus.    Ida Sinclair has joined her sisters, Kat and Nell, in the untamed mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado for one reason: to work for the infamous but undeniably successful businesswoman, Mollie O’Bryan. Ida’s sisters may be interested in making a match for their determined older sister, but Ida only wants to... (more)
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  Nan's Heritage: Book 4

  The Eyes of a Stranger (Nan's Heritage Series)

  by Elaine Littau

  Rejection was an emotion Gertie Brenan knew well. At the age of eighteen, she finds hersef at the threshold of life and comes to realize that because of the rejection of her fiance', many options are open to her. In her childhood, rejection held her captive. Now, it gives her freedom that few women of her time were afforded. Set in the beauty of Denver, Colorado in the1860s, The Eyes of a Stranger folllows vivid... (more)
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  Wild Women: Book 4

  Wild Hearts

  by Sharon Ihle

  Formerly published as Tempting Miss PrissyPriscilla Stillbottom, a respectable rancher’s daughter, dreamed of performing on the stage. But she never expected that fleeing an unwanted husband would make that dream come true. Or that she'd end up a star saloon singer in a rough-and-ready Colorado mining town. And she certainly never imagined Payton Cobb, the devilishly handsome saloon owner, whom she... (more)