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A Desperate Bride For A Gloomy Sheriff by Evelyn Boyett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeneva’s mother makes her become a mail order bride because the rest of the family will have a better chance of surviving if she’s out of the house.Even though she wants a family, her hopes are dashed when she gets a glimpse of her new life. Despite her disappointment, she decides to make the best of the situation. That’s what she’s been taught to do.Sully always wanted to be a sheriff... -
The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet in a Cathedral city in the 1870s, a remote town dominated by the great cathedral and its formidable Dean Adam Ayscough, who holds a deep love for his parishioners and townspeople. But the craggy, homely old Dean, lived locked in by shyness... when an obscure watchmaker, the timid, fearful little Isaac Peabody, a genius of a clockmaker, strikes up an unlikely friendship with the Dean...Categorized as:
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The Wretched Needle Worker by Iris Cole
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVera has uncovered things she never wanted to know. Her father was a monster.How could Vera have been so blind to what was right before her eyes?After the death of her kind and loving Papa, Vera’s home is claimed by ne’er do well Uncle Merritt, who drives the household with cruelty and deprivation... -
Dear Mr. Stone by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHeiress Beryl Branson didn’t plan on becoming a mail-order bride, but doggone it! Desperate times called for desperate measures. Her friend, Katie Haverdash, had the stubbornest set of parents she’d ever met. They were determined to marry Katie off to a man of their choosing... -
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Just Grace by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGrace Benjamin Listen was just trying to rescue a poor helpless kitten. She certainly didn't plan on falling out of the tree and landing on Dodsworth's newest resident, Dr. Gatlin O'Malley-breaking her arm and wounding her pride in the fall. Gatlin only arrived from Atlanta, Georgia, the week before...Categorized as:
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Five Novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFive Novels, Complete and Unabridged: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations...Categorized as:
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The Tomb: A Novel of Martha by Stephanie Landsem
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this captivating retelling of a classic biblical story, Jesus shocks the town of Bethany with Lazarus’s resurrection from the dead, leading Martha—a seemingly perfect woman trapped by the secrets of her past—to hope and a new life. Everyone in Bethany admires Martha—the perfect Jewish woman... -
That First Montana Year by Donna L. Scofield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen B’Anne (Beatrice Anne) marries Will, she knows he is a reluctant groom. But she's a minister’s daughter and pregnant. To save embarrassment for the families, and hoping a fresh start will help them become the sweethearts they were before, B’Anne agrees to leave everyone and everything she knows and go with Will to the Montana Territory... -
The Secret Admirer of an Extraordinary Lady: A Historical Regency Romance Book by Bridget Barton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLydia Gibbs is much more interested in drawing beautiful dresses than settling for something less than a fairytale love. But when she unexpectedly starts receiving anonymous letters from a secret admirer, she begins to dream of a love she never knew she could have... -
The Highwayman's Letter by Martha Keyes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe waylays her carriage and runs off with her property. Can she keep him from stealing her heart as well?By day, Reginald Sinclair works in the post office, but by night, he is the increasingly infamous Paladin, the gallant highwayman making young women swoon all over Somerset...Categorized as:
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Saltwick River Orphan: Historical Victorian Saga by Dolly Price
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDrugged and supposedly drowned by the mother who should have loved her, 6-year-old Gwendoline is dredged from the Saltwick River. Poverty-stricken but rich in love Mr. and Mrs. Paul love the tiny child as their own until hard times and tragedy drive them to the workhouse...Categorized as:
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Love is Blind by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucius Judrow was good at his job, maybe too good. Hired by Jack Carlson of Cutter’s Creek to track down and retrieve his sister Emma, Lucius got more than he bargained for. The free-spirited Emma wasn’t what he expected, nor was the family she’d taken refuge with... -
Mining for Love by Dana Alden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCordelia Watson is ready to start over. Her husband didn’t return from the war, her fiancé jilted her, and she’s had enough. J.B. Wood agrees to help Delia start anew in Virginia City, even though all he really wants to do is mine his claim for gold. When bad things start happening, J.B. realizes he’d do anything to protect Delia...Categorized as:
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A Fearless Bride For A Wounded Rancher by Ember Pierce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMae is a fearless woman who grew up in a poor family in Massachusetts.She struggles for independence and respect in the world. For years, she felt as though she was just an object. She wants to be loved for who she is, not what she looks like. When her father tried to force her to marry the local banker, she decided to form her own destiny and answer a mail-order bride ad... -
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The Orphans of Warrenby Mill by Catharine Dobbs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFREE with Kindle UnlimitedThe ominous letter arrives… and what of its repercussions for Warrenby Mill?When fate delivers a series of terrible blows, Veronica must first look out for her brother and sister.Outrageous. Perilous. Disheartening.These are their living conditions for several years, abandoned and alone with few options to consider...Categorized as:
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A Hope Unseen by Nerys Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt may be there are some things even true love can't overcome. Sara Worthing is determined that she'll only marry for love, even if it means becoming a mail order bride and moving all the way across America to find it. After a long correspondence, when she finally meets farmer Daniel Raine, she has no doubt she's made the right choice. Daniel is everything he was in his letters and more... -
Love Finds a Way by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBartholomew Brown had been a successful business man in his day, a very fine one. But after serving in the war, he sold his business and ran off with his father and brother to mine gold, even though they were years late to the gold rush. But, they had to give it a try. After all, what did they have to lose? Unfortunately, Bart lost plenty. But he did gain a friend... -
Carved in Stone by Margaret Manchester
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFROM AMAZON INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Northern England 1881. Sent away during her brother’s trial, Phyllis Forster returns home as mistress of Burnside Hall only to find that the Weardale people have turned against the Forster family, and she desperately wants to win back their respect...Categorized as:
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A Groom for Celia by Cat Cahill
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCelia Thornton would give anything to start over after the blizzard ends her loveless marriage.Jack Wendler needs to leave New York immediately after one too many business deals left his investors penniless.Figuring marriage in remote western Nebraska must be better than the reckoning he's facing in New York, Jack pens a response to a marriage advertisement... -
The Welch Brothers of Beaver Hills Boxset: Mail Order Bride Romance by Terri Grace
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCOMPLETE BOXSET – FREE TO READ ON KINDLE UNLIMITED - The Welch Brothers of Beaver Hills follows the lives and romantic fortunes of The Welch family. The journey of each brother and the wives God has chosen for them is a rich and surprising adventure for keen readers of clean Christian Historical Romance!Book 1 - Second Chance At LoveMirabelle Crane is on a mission... -
A Careless Wind by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Rachel's fiance was killed in a railroad accident, leaving her with nowhere to go, she came to the Brody Hotel as a last resort. With the help of her new friends, she found comfort and healing, and now she believes herself as content as she can be. But when Nicholas Hardy, her fiance's brother, walks into her dining room, her world falls out from under her...Categorized as:
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Promise of Love by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMerritt Petroff is staring spinsterhood in the face, that is until a stranger shows up in town. Problem is, her matchmaking grandparents (not to mention the rest of the town) can't leave well enough alone. Wouldn't it be better if they let nature take its course? Not when there's a living, breathing man of marriageable age in Cutter's Creek they deem perfect for Merritt. Much to Merrit's dismay . -
Mail-Order Bride Ink: Dear Mr. Miller by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDear Mrs. Pettigrew, I seek an educated woman whom I can hold intelligent conversations with, one skilled in the art of domestics, with a strong demeanor and mind. As an aside, I’m partial to taller women, being tall myself, and would appreciate your expertise and discretion when sifting through candidates in search of my future bride ..Categorized as:
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Reading the Rancher by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHattie Dodge was spoiled, rich, and so not interested in marrying Bartholomew Sullivan. So she did what any other self-respecting about-to-be-forced-to-be-married bride would do. She made a run for it. Which is how she wound up in Creede, Colorado. Cooper White was honest, hard working, and couldn’t read a lick. How he wound up in Creede’s new poetry club was anyone’s guess, but there he was...Categorized as:
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The Redemption of the Puzzling Governess: A Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe is her last chance. And she will protect him at any cost... Tormented by his guilt over the past, Mark Collingridge, the Earl of Dulshire, is blind to the danger that circles him closer and closer. Only one person can see the imminent threat: Delia Caulfield, his daughter’s new governess, who has confused him so much with the unexpected feelings she has awoken inside him... -
The Brave Mill Girl by Rachel White
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom homeless to a maid, to homeless again. She ends up in a hazardous cotton factory. After her mother dies of tuberculosis, Annabelle Walker is told by her stepfather that he has arranged work for her as a maid. When Annabelle arrives at Rosewood House in Huddersfield, there is no job. It is just her stepfather’s ploy to chase her out of the house... -
A Sea Rose for the Duchess by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor a Sea Rose appeared to save her when all seemed lost, and from the storm of her past, a new life shall come forth... Captain Arnold Reynes has found a lot of things at sea: peace, freedom, and an escape from a past he avoids facing. What he never expected to find, however, is a beautiful young woman who has lost her memory. All he knows about her is her name.. -
A Christmas Worth Remembering by Abby Ayles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his search for a lost lady, he found true love… Now he must save her from those who would try to harm her again, just like all those years ago on a tragic Christmas night…As a friend of the Duke of Hartford, Lewis Darby feels it is his duty to help the man track down his long-lost daughter, Anastasia... -
Taming the Thorn of Blackwell by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA rose may be full of thorns, but that does not take away from its beauty… And lucky is the man that finds a way to hold it without getting hurt…Selina Griffiths created a fierce reputation for herself, after being forced to run a Duchy all by herself. But it was all worth it to protect her son’s heritage... -
Love Lessons for a Lady by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYielding to their hearts’ desires would be oh-so-sweet…and oh-so-dangerous…She’s illegitimate… Chastity Noble finally has the security she’s always craved. She may have been born on the wrong side of the blanket, but now that she’s been promoted to assistant headmistress at the girls’ seminary, that no longer matters...Categorized as:
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A Second Chance for the Tormented Lady: A Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance Novel by Abby Ayles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say the darkest hours are just before the dawn. Now, her sun is about to rise again, ignited by his love. It was only a year ago that Frederica Chaput was rescued from her seemingly endless misery by her brother and his wife...Categorized as:
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A Mail Order Bride to Heal his Heart: A Historical Western Romance Book by Etta Foster
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis Mail Order Bride is everything he finally deserved. But without clearing up his past, will he be able to keep her? Caleb Turner decides that it is about time to heal his heart’s wounds and find himself a wife to start a family. He’s hoping that this mail order bride he is expecting, is the complete opposite of his former fiancée. And she is... -
A White Rose for the Marquess by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bush of white roses there once was, and she was the fairest of them all. Then that cold winter came and wiped them all away, leaving her alone against a monster… until he comes, and he is not afraid of her thorns... After losing her family in a terrible accident, Gwendoline Hathaway becomes a servant in her cruel aunt’s home... -
The Christmas Pauper by Iris Cole
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the early hours of Christmas eve, a young girl hides in doorways seeking refuge from the icy streets. But London is not kind to orphans and paupers and survival can exact an unthinkable price.On Christmas Eve in 1881, eight year old Luella Morris is suddenly and tragically alone in the world...Categorized as:
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Emer: Clover Springs Mail Order Brides by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLife isn't easy for a young woman alone in 19th Century Colorado, but when Emer Matthews needs to escape an untenable situation, she only has herself to depend on. She has no time for men having seen first hand the high price women pay for love, so she seeks solace with the sister she's never met, Sorcha...Categorized as:
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Lily For My Enemy: A Lockhart Sweet Regency Romance by L.G. Rollins
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's from Lords. She sides with Commons.Watch out London, sparks will fly.Felix Lockhart is tired of balls, tired of musicales, and most especially tired of society only seeing him as the heir apparent to a powerful seat in Lords. Then, one evening he meets the witty Jocelyn Hunt—perhaps the only young lady in London who isn’t impressed with him...Categorized as:
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A Foolish Game: A Regency Romance by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Isabella Beauchamp is beautiful, clever and rich. But she is not happy with the restrictions that Society has placed upon her. She is determined to prove that she can be so much more than what people expect her to be, even if it means that she is destined to become a spinster...Categorized as:
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Isadora's Christmas Plight: Victorian Romance by Rosie Swan, Dolly Price
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings21 years old is too young to die, but Isadora Fontaine believes that this awful Christmas day will be her last on earth. Isadora has little to celebrate as she nurses her wounds, hidden like a prisoner behind the walls of the workhouse laundry. It seems all hope is lost. Meanwhile..... -
A Night Rose for the Duke: A Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn English rose, they’d called her once, and her beauty and grace were admired by many. But then things changed, and she was named a flower poisonous... Having suffered tragedy after tragedy, Eleanor Ashford is but a shadow of her former self... -
Marriage by Mistake by Abby Ayles, Starfall Publications
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe was the most beautiful lady he had ever laid his eyes upon. Well-educated, opinionated, well-spoken, intelligent…but she was Helena, not Elizabeth!She bumped into him. The woman he had been waiting for his whole life, the one who could calm even the stormiest of seas and make them more beautiful than ever before...Categorized as:
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The Orphan Thieves by Nell Harte
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’ll be quick, the child thought, her feet wading further to the deep waters of the Irish Sea.. Don’t, a soft voice murmured, as a hand came to rest on her shoulder. Whatever’s happened, this isn’t the answer.On the brink of the unthinkable, eight year old Maggie is snatched from death by the lion hearted notorious Liverpool thief, Irene Westfield...Categorized as:
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Redeeming the Marquess by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMiss Elizabeth Bentley is in a most precarious situation, that is, until fate intervenes and Lady Bideford agrees to host her for the London Season. Desperate to change her circumstances, she sets out to marry, and quickly. That is the only way to escape her current predicament. It makes perfect sense, except her plan has one problem - Lord Bideford...Categorized as:
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Mail Order Melanie (Brides of Beckham) by Margery Scott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLeft penniless and homeless, Beckham socialite Melanie Rutherford sees no other option but to become a mail order bride. Luckily, a wealthy rancher in Colorado needs a wife, and although she’s not entirely thrilled with the idea of going west, at least she’ll be able to live the lifestyle she’s accustomed to...Categorized as:
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Mary by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMary Ryan leaves the orphanage and heartbreak behind and follows her friend Katie to Clover Springs to become a mail order bride. She's nervous but reminds herself that Davy Sullivan must be a nice man or Katie wouldn’t have recommended him. Davy Sullivan needs a wife, but he's not looking for love. In his experience, that only leads to heartbreak...Categorized as:
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Only a Duke Would Dare: A Regency Romance by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Delightful, dazzling, and oh-so delicious...Categorized as:
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The Reluctant Guardian by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBaldwin, the Viscount of Mountgarret, was content with his life. Unexpectedly, his childhood friend dies, leaving him his most prized treasures: his two young daughters. Baldwin’s priorities begin to shift as he arrives home and meets his wards’ infuriatingly stubborn governess. His interest is piqued by the mystery surrounding her, but she’s only a governess. He certainly can’t pursue her...Categorized as:
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The Jack of All Trades by M.A. Nichols
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn heiress looking to escape. A gentleman searching for purpose. Together they may just find love.Felicity Barrows is no fool, though the fortune hunters pestering her must believe differently...Categorized as:
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A Reluctant Bride for a Heartbroken Rancher by Evelyn Boyett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMercy grew up an orphan. But her life wasn’t bad and at least she has her sisters. They aren’t blood but they’re family. When they lose their lodgings, Mercy isn’t sure what to do. When she loses her job immediately after, she knows she’s going to have to come up with a plan — and quick. She never thought she’d become a mail order bride but desperate times call for desperate measures... -
The Odd Mystery of the Cursed Duke by Abby Ayles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance Novel When all hope seems lost, a deal between them offers them a new life. But within his castle walls, something evil seeks to destroy their happiness... After her heart was broken, Beatrice Leeson has forsaken love. Close to spinsterhood, she is content to help with her sister’s family... -
Dancing with a Gracious Lord by Bridget Barton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a childhood illness left her with a scarred face, Juliana Rothmond is determined that no man will ever look at her except for her generous dowry. When her father announces that she is soon to marry Ira Galbrathe, an opportunistic and arrogant man, Juliana desperately tries to escape from her future misery...Categorized as:
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