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When Susie and her sister Maggie both lose their young husbands in the war, Susie decides it’s time to take control of their own destinies. With her sister lost in heartbreak, Susie answers an ad from a pair of brothers in Montana who are looking for wives, hoping to find them both a warm and safe place to live. But life in the logging camps of Montana is much harder than Susie ever dreamed, and it doesn’t help that her sister, Maggie, seems to be settling in much better than her.

Widowed and with a young child, Claire Jeffries leaves her old life behind and heads west as a Mail Order Bride. She knows that her last chance to build a home for her daughter Angelica rests with Elijah Monroe, whose ad she answered in a catalog. He sounds like a kind man in his letters, but Claire worries how kind he will feel when he meets Angelica, who Claire has failed to mention in any of her own letters. Can he possibly love them both, and forgive her deception?

Devastated when her childhood love marries her sister instead, Nora Robertson leaves her old world behind for a chance as a mail order bride. She heads west alone, ready to begin her new life, but when she arrives in the small, dusty town, she is not alone anymore. An unfortunate event has left her to care for an orphaned infant—a child Joshua Ellsworth is not expecting at all. Joshua Ellsworth is a good man, however, and he readily accepts both Nora and the infant into his home.

To Mary Turner, the West is a chance to escape the trappings of her privileged life and find adventure and love. So when she agrees to become the Mail Order Bride to William Redding, she’s ready for the world she’s read about in her favorite dime novels. What she’s not ready for is a rundown ranch, a debt-ridden husband, and scorpions in her bedroom.

When nineteen-year-old Jessica Downs arrives in Pinoche as a mail order bride, she’s devastated to learn that her intended has been killed. With nowhere to turn and alone at Christmas, she’s grateful for the chance for a job in the local hotel, until she finds herself stuck in the middle of a brazen theft. The town’s sheriff doesn’t seem to want her help, but Jessica has never been one to take ‘no’ for an answer. Not even from handsome young William Stanton.

Bridget O’Conner never dreamed she’d be heading West as a mail order bride, but she also never dreamed her parents would die within a year and leave her alone with her young brother, Ben. To Bridget, Sam Jones was her last chance to for her and Ben to have a home and security. But to young Ben, Sam is an unwelcome change that takes him far away from his old life.

When Cora’s high school sweetheart up and marries someone else, she knows she has only one choice left: Head West as a Mail Order Bride, or be doomed to a life of spinsterhood. She’s ready to make the best of her new life, but when faced with a gruff, uncaring husband and a lonely ranch in need of repair, she’s not sure she’s up to the task.

Celebrate the miracle of love and the joy of the holiday season on the Western frontier with the Twelve Mail Order Brides of Christmas, a new series from popular author Emma Morgan! When Sarah agrees to be a Mail Order Bride, she never expects to her arrival to be a surprise. She had hopes for a chance to find love and a new life, but instead her husband-to-be doesn’t want her, and is ready to send her back home.

Feeling herself a burden on her family, Ella Burns decides to head West in the hopes of finding a purpose—if not love. And Benjamin Person, new father to an orphaned child, seems like a man who needs her help. If only he could accept it. Benjamin Pearson, now in charge of his orphaned niece, knows he needs a woman’s help to raise the child. But his life is so hard, and he does not want his new wife to have to struggle as he did. He resolves to shield her from the hardships of the ranch, and let her tend to the home and child. If only she would listen to him.

When Callie Browning agrees to travel West as a mail order bride, she never intends to stay. In fact, she plans to cancel the contract as soon as she arrives. With dreams of becoming a writer, Callie does not want to be tied to a home and responsibilities, and her ticket West is meant to be a way for her to escape all that. But Callie never expected kind and handsome Will Stanton.

EVERWOOD FALLS, a small supernatural community tucked up in the Colorado Rockies where witches, werewolves and vampires can live without fear of discovery, and those with curses they can't control are sent to keep the existence of magic from being revealed to Mundanes.

Ready to start a new life as a mail order bride, far from the reaches of her uncle, nineteen-year-old Catherine Statler has been expecting her world to change. But she does not expect to show up at her intended’s door with a stranger’s baby. Unwilling leave the baby alone, she takes her chances that her husband-to-be will still accept her, and the uninvited guest. After all, it’s almost Christmas, and winter is falling fast.

Devastated to learn of her father’s ruthless business dealings—and his desire to marry her off to the despicable Mr. Bergner—Celia Ward leaves behind her wealthy home to pursue a life out West as a mail order bride. She is ready for a new life of challenges and adventure, but she does not expect to arrive at the station to meet an unexpected baby and homeless husband-to-be.

Ready to start a new life after the death of her grandmother, Helen Parker decides to accept an offer from a Mr. Mack Cooper as a mail order bride. However, when she arrives, she realizes Mack is not the man she is meant to marry. Instead, he sent for her for a friend, Phillip, who knows nothing of her arrival.

Exactly five years, five months, and three days ago I spent a single afternoon with a guy, Noah, and promptly fell in love with him. Then he left without leaving a number or his last name. Now he’s standing above me in the same tiny cafe we met all those years ago. And he’s a grown man with an easy smile that’s making me feel eighteen again. But I don’t fall in love, not anymore.

James Carter has made a fortune in the silver mines, but he prefers a simple life. A kind and intelligent man, he is known for his generous nature, and is loved by the town. But when James announces a Christmas party to help welcome Mabel to town, she is not pleased. What kind of party can they have out here, in the desert, with a group of strangers in the house? But the holiday spirit can find us, wherever we are. And sometimes, so can love.

Melanie Danvers thinks her life is on track. She has a successful career, great friends, and a special someone in her life. But when she least expects it, fate throws her a curveball—a face from the past—the man who deemed their one night together a mistake. After eight years away, a temporary work contract brings Steven MacAlistar back to his hometown—a place to which he thought he’d never return. It only takes one encounter with Melanie to make him realize that despite the long absence, his heart has never left.

Hannah Orwell has returned to her hometown to take a new job as the host of a local morning show. Her childhood nemesis, Cameron Miller, has remained in Cool Springs all these years and is now the town’s head middle school football coach. Hannah and Cameron’s longtime pastor’s wife, Maureen (who is well known for her matchmaking), has asked Hannah and Cameron to both help her with this year’s children’s Christmas play. Can Hannah and Cameron forgive and forget the past, or are they doomed to repeat the patterns of their past?

Dealing with a controlling, manipulative, and self-absorbed mother-in-law can be a challenge. But when your child brings home a fiancé who’s completely unworthy, and the shoe is suddenly on the other foot, do you take the high road, or get down and dirty? It's been five years since Allison Montgomery's beloved father-in-law, George, passed away and her cantankerous mother-in-law, Margaret, moved in. After nearly killing each other during their initial adjustment period, Allie and Margaret have finally buried the hatchet and have even launched a thriving home staging business together.

If you can’t beat them, join them. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover is so annoyed by the infighting at tiny Bradley, North Carolina’s town council meetings that she decides on a radical course of action: she’ll run for the open seat on the council. After all, she taught most of the elected officials—she should be able to enact some order. But order apparently isn’t in the works. This becomes clear when a fellow candidate is found . . . murdered. Myrtle and her senior sidekick Miles must uncover the killer before someone else becomes a lame duck.