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When Lily Jones is left by her betrothed, she fears her heart will never fully recover. With no family, Lily decides to follow through on a match made by a matrimonial agency–a match with a wealthy rancher in Mountain Pass, Oregon. Daniel Brown is in his early 30s, a life-long bachelor, and the only inheritor of the beautiful, sprawling acreage of Delia Ranch. But there’s a secret or two that didn’t quite make it into his letter of application for a mail order bride: Daniel has a past that left him broken.

Life isn’t easy for a small-town sheriff–especially when he’s trying to raise two energetic seven-year-olds. When he realizes his children are becoming too much for his aging aunt, Sheriff Caleb Murray decides it’s time to remarry.

Iris James has every reason to run away from home. Living in her uncle’s cold, loveless household has stripped her of everything – including her hope for the future. When a matrimonial agency matches her up with a widower in Mountain Pass, Oregon, she’s only too glad to accept. Though the challenge of stepping into a dead woman’s shoes and becoming a wife and mother all at once will be difficult, she can’t believe it could be any worse than staying in Philadelphia. But there’s far more to the story than she expects – her new husband is haunted by the ghosts of his tragic past.

Amelia Turner is tired of living her boring, pampered life. She craves adventure and a new life out West. Ben Thompson is still grieving the loss of his wife, but he knows their son needs a mother, so with reluctance, he places an advert for a Mail Order Bride. He is immediately matched with Amelia. When Amelia arrives in Montana, their first meeting does not go well. Both fear they have made the wrong decision. This is not the adventure Amelia expected, nor is it the smooth transition Ben wanted.

Bertie Bennett is out of options. After losing her parents and her job, she’s spent six months living under her Aunt Joan’s roof—only to discover Joan plans to marry her off to the most cold-hearted man in Boston. Desperate for escape, Bertie takes a chance and applies to become a Mail Order Bride, trusting that a stranger in the West offers better prospects than her aunt’s schemes.

Isabelle Becker is at a crossroads: stay trapped in Boston’s relentless poverty or take a leap of faith and become a Mail Order Bride. With little to lose, she chooses to start over in the shadow of Colorado’s Bitterroot Mountains, marrying rancher Ethan Callahan.

Eliza Montgomery has always lived under someone else's direction. So, when her overbearing father passes away, she is at a loss—for the first time in her life, the choice is up to her. Applying to a matrimonial agency, she agrees to become a Mail Order Bride for a farmer in Culvers Creek, Montana.

When Tom Knox decides to take his best friend’s advice and write for a Mail Order Bride, he figures it will be a marriage of convenience—someone to help him around the ranch and to keep him company. But when his intended bride arrives, it turns out to be anything but convenient… May Chapman, an heiress adrift, flees the stifling expectations of London high society for the promise of a fresh start. Boston was to be her salvation, but when fate uproots her plans, she finds herself venturing to the rugged plains of Texas.

In the winter of 1880, Rose Berkshire arrives in Glass Lake, Wyoming, brimming with hope for a fresh start and eager to meet her fiancé, Eli Stillwell. Determined to leave the pain of her past behind, Rose is shocked when Eli postpones their wedding until after Christmas, leaving her questioning whether agreeing to a matrimonial agency match was a mistake.

After a tragic loss, Penelope Langford feels suffocated by her overprotective parents, who would rather bury her past than let her live again. But at just twenty-three, Penelope knows she can’t spend another Christmas confined to the familiar walls of her Baltimore home. Desperate for a fresh start, she takes a leap of faith, becoming a mail-order bride and heading to the rugged frontier town of Miles Gulch, Wyoming.

Maggie Whitaker has spent most of her life in a Boston orphanage, serving as a surrogate mother to countless children. Now, at twenty-two and too old to stay, she faces an uncertain future. Determined to find a family of her own, she answers a matrimonial advert that leads her to Clearwater, Texas.

Abby McCarthy has a knack for making friends, and a reputation for being one of the most skilled seamstresses in Boston. But times are tough, and work is impossible to find. Desperate, she agrees to travel to Texas to marry a rancher, Will Skinner. But Will Skinner has challenges of his own. In the three years of working his ranch, it’s been one disaster after another. He’s at the end of his rope – and when Abby arrives and voices her disappointment in what she finds, it seems their marriage is destined to be over before it begins.

Lily Montgomery’s parents have died, leaving Lily and her younger sister, Hope, to struggle with the debts left behind. Jobs are sparser than ever—and it seems Lily’s only option is to become a Mail Order Bride.

Maggie Foster has a reputation for pouring her heart into her work. As a nurse in training in one of Philadelphia’s many hospitals, she has no shortage of patients who appreciate her care – but when the hospital is suddenly closed, she finds herself at loose ends. Accepting a marriage proposal seems to be her only option. Soon she finds herself engaged to a man she’s never met – but the surprises she anticipates aren’t the surprises she finds once she arrives in Miles Gulch, Wyoming.

Ian Ross has worked hard all his life, and finally, he’s seeing the results: a prosperous ranch in Wise River, Montana, with a beautiful home he shares with his elderly parents, plus a sweet and pretty Mail Order Bride on the way. But when his newly built home, the pride of Ross Hollow Ranch, burns down overnight, everything goes sour. Suddenly, Ian is back where he started, scrounging for supplies, and living in a hastily built shack. The last thing he wants or needs is the responsibility of a wife in the middle of winter.

Neither Ellie Dawson nor Jonathan Hart are strangers to tragedy. Though they have never met, both have lost parents and sisters, and are alone in the world. When a matrimonial agency matches the two as husband and wife, it seems common ground isn’t enough to make a successful marriage.

Following the passing of her mother, Ella Emerson faces a whirlwind of upheaval. Burdened by family debt, her house must be sold, and her uncle arranges for her to become a Mail Order Bride. Her intended husband, Lawrence Carrington, is a handsome, wealthy rancher in Mountain Pass, Oregon. With little say in the matter, Ella agrees to the arrangement to honor her mother's memory.

Rose Clarke has only ever wanted one thing: to spend her life caring for the family she loves. But when her godfather tells her his nephew in Montana has asked for her hand in marriage, she allows herself to be persuaded to set her sights on another goal – that of becoming a wife. Abram Ward carries the tragedy of a failed romance – along with a heavy burden of guilt. He wants nothing more than to care for his ranch and be left alone.

Sophie Connor has only known love once in her life and when he marries another, she is faced with a choice. Either spend the rest of her life as a sad old maid, haunting the lower stories of her parents home, or agree to become a Mail Order Bride to a man in Mountain Pass, Oregon. But the man she becomes engaged to has a tragic history of his own. Sophie falls for her husband to be at first sight. Tall, handsome, kind—and not given to long speeches—Evander Holland is exactly the sort of man she hoped he would be.

Charlotte "Lottie" Thomson feels trapped in the stifling confines of her life in Boston, where the only escape seems to be marriage. Desperate for freedom, she decides to become a Mail Order Bride and heads west for a fresh start. Impulsively, Lottie books passage on the first stagecoach to Texas. The journey takes a dangerous turn when notorious outlaw Luke "Hawk" Jackson and his gang ambush the stagecoach, robbing the passengers and killing a young woman named Emily. Lottie discovers that Emily was on her way to Clearwater, Texas, to marry a rancher named Nathan Caldwell.