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The Wrangling of the Wreath by Liz Isaacson
Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe's been so busy trying to find Miss Right. She's been standing right in front of him the whole time. This Christmas, can Mister and Libby take their relationship out of the best friend zone?Mister Glover has been inspired by his brothers and cousins as they've all found someone to spend their lives with... -
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McCabe's Luck: The Feud Goes On by Patrick Lindsay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJake McCabe is no stranger to trouble. Between serving in the army during the Civil War and being involved in a long-running feud in his home state of Kentucky, Jake has known some hard times. Some have said the McCabe family is known best for their run of bad luck.Jake decides to move to central Texas, along with a beautiful neighbor lady and her family... -
The Husband Tree by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHit the trail into the Old West, where a tough lady rancher and a seemingly aimless wrangler attempt to avoid the matrimonial noose. When Belle Tanner hires Silas Harden to help her get her cattle to market, the last thing she’s looking for is romance...Categorized as:
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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... -
Lightning and Lawmen by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow did a simple hello turn into something so complicated? Love is about to leave one lawman thunderstruck in this sweet historical romance! Cultured and full of grace, Delilah Robbins agrees to accompany her meteorologist father to his new post in Baker City, Oregon...Categorized as:
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Learning to Love by Jo Noelle
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClara Hatfield knows sorrow. Having been abandoned by her husband, then shamed with divorce, she traveled to Creede, Colorado to seek refuge with a brother who left the family a decade ago. She’s been living with him for the past year. Now he wants to sell her in marriage to settle his gambling debt to a known troublemaker, but Bernard Newell intervenes...Categorized as:
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The Rancher's Widowed Bride by Amelia Rose
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere is no telling where love will lead you in life. All you can do is hold on, and enjoy the ride.Quincy Birchwood has big plans.With her family in Pennsylvania struggling, Quincy knows that it is up to her to marry well and solve their money issues... -
Truly His Type by Jo Noelle
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf Rhona McRae could dream, it might be of a strong handsome husband or to become an authoress. When her parents die, her dreams are put away in the desperation of finding a next meal or even a place to stay. At the invitation of her brother, who immigrated to America, she and her sisters move to Creede, Colorado during the silver rush...Categorized as:
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A Bride To Herd by George H. McVey
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTake one failed rancher turned matchmaker and ten unexpected women looking to become brides. Put them all together in a house in Bent, Colorado. What could possibly go wrong? Chance Redburn lost his ranch and his only living relative, his Aunt Viola, in the same week. Now he has no choice but to try and make a go of his inheritance., Viola’s matchmaking service...Categorized as:
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Lassoed in Texas Trilogy by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBask in laughs and tears as you visit Mosqueros, Texas, a Wild West town in the making, where you'll meet three matchless couples and a passel of children who begin their relationships on rough footing. Petticoat Ranch Sophie Edwards is doing jut fine alone, until a man walks into her life, insisting on rescuing her and her four daughters...Categorized as:
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Fitzpatrick: Cowboy Reluctant by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings...Categorized as:
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Betty's Books by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBetty Meeks likes nothing more than to hide from the world with her nose in a good book, but on the Trail that’s a little harder than usual. No longer wanting to be a burden on her sister and her family, Betty begins taking her meals with a friend who cooks for the bachelors in camp... -
Mike Stone: Texas Ranger by Patrick Lindsay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMike Stone has come to Texas, seeking to avoid the gunfighter reputation he was in danger of acquiring back in New Mexico.He joins a cattle drive to give himself a little money stake in his new home. He meets a beautiful girl, then finds out they have jointly inherited a property near Austin.Surprising obstacles stand in Stone’s way as he settles into his new life in a new land... -
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Oregon Bound by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEva Thompson’s Pa is determined to take his family to a new life in Oregon. Eva is adamant she won’t leave David, the love of her life behind. But Pa wants her to marry Harold Chapman, the son of a wealthy store owner. Marriage to Chapman will provide Eva with everything a woman could want except love. David Clarke wants to make Eva his wife, even if that means traveling across country...Categorized as:
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The Lady’s Mine by Francine Rivers
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save.1875...Categorized as:
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Montana Rose by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFire up your love of romance with Montana Rose , where Cassie Griffin, a seemingly spoiled pregnant woman, is widowed one day and wedded the next. Marrying handyman Red Dawson seems the only alternative to Cassie’s being hitched to a brutal rancher...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... -
Vanishing Trail: A Texas Ranger Mystery by Patrick Lindsay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome of the finest horses in Central Texas are disappearing, and the Texas Rangers have lost one of their own trying to follow the trail of the missing stock. Ash McKinnon, who is the best tracker the Rangers have, is called in from Langtry, Texas to solve the mystery... -
Western Future by Janelle Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt finally happened. Charlotte’s bakery is open and thriving beyond anything she could have imagined. Her logical, business-driven tenant—one of the Copper Kings—thinks she should make changes to maximize her profit, but she isn’t ready—no matter how illogical. He confounds and fascinates her, and now he’s all she can think about. Max doesn’t need distractions...Categorized as:
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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... -
Mail Order Menace by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTired of being remembered only for her misdeeds as part of the demon horde, Ernestine Miller agrees to go out West to marry a banker in need of a wife. When she arrives in Montana, she discovers her groom has met with a fatal accident, and she has two choices. She can either find a way to support herself or go back home in shame...Categorized as:
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Mail Order Melancholy by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGretchen Jensen has been in love with the same person for years. There are only two problems standing in the way of her marriage to him. She’s pregnant, and he’s dead. Most of the people in her town won’t even talk to her, because the woman who was to be her mother-in-law has shunned her...Categorized as:
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Mail Order Pearl by Cheryl Wright
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbducted and forced to marry at gunpoint, Pearl Hopkins is held captive until her outlaw husband is killed in a gunfight.With nowhere else to turn, she decides to become a mail order bride, unaware she is pregnant with her dead husband’s baby.Sheriff Alex Farley is lonely, but more importantly, he wants a wife to cook and clean house. He would not be averse to a little brood of Farley’s...Categorized as:
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The Dawn Wakers by Angela Castillo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEighteen-year-old Ellie's been on the Oregon trail for almost four months, with her mother and four siblings to care for. Though scarlet fever left her with a weakened heart, she's pushed ahead with resolve and determination. Thaddeus dreams of becoming a pastor, though his affluent family expects him to follow in his banker father's footsteps... -
The Brides of Twin Valley Falls: Mail Order Bride 5-Book Box Set by Maddie Walker
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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... -
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... -
A Lawman's Reward by Kay P. Dawson, Meg Amor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**SWEET WESTERN MAIL ORDER BRIDE ROMANCE** Can he prove she’s worthy of the love he has to give? Lydia is ready for her fresh start as the teacher in the growing cowtown of Abilene, KS. Her brother isn’t happy about her living in town on her own, so only agrees if his friend—the local sheriff—is willing to keep an eye on her... -
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 . -
The Christmas Confection by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill a sweet baker soften a hardened man’s heart? Find out in this historical holiday romance! Born to an outlaw father and a shrewish mother, Fred Decker feels obligated to atone for the past without much hope for his future. If he possessed a lick of sense, he’d pack up and leave the town where he was born and raised, but something. . . someone. . . unknowingly holds him there... -
The Maid: The Eighth Day by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wanted murderer, a young maid on the run...and five days left to save the town. Accused of murder and shunned by his former peers, Colin Deane tells himself he doesn’t want a wife but will take one to save his hometown of Noelle. He owes Noelle. The town came to his rescue all those years ago, after the war, when the country was still a seething mass...Categorized as:
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Ophelia: A Valentine's Day Bride by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClint Jones came to Noelle for one purpose and one purpose only. Get in, assess the town, and get out. Then he'd report to his superiors at Wells Fargo and Company to let them know if Noelle was respectable and prosperous enough to open a branch there...Categorized as:
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Minnie by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMinnie Sanders has everything going for her. She’s starting a new job at the mayor’s office in Nowhere, Texas. She’s surrounded by family who love her beyond anything she’s ever known. But as Minnie watches her sisters all fall in love and marry, she realizes marriage is something she wants as well. She loves her nieces and nephews, and she dreams of holding her own child someday...Categorized as:
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Reforming the Rebel by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPatience Graham has always been a good, obedient daughter. When she is rescued from the storeroom at her parents’ restaurant by the young man she’s been eyeing for months, she is thrilled to find out he wants to court her. When she finds out he has had a drinking problem in the past, she decides to be cautious until he can prove himself to her and her parents... -
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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Eleanor by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEleanor Templeton, recently arrived in Clover Springs, is looking for a place to hide and nurse her invisible wounds. Gary Barrett, the saloon owner, tries to break down the barriers she has erected, convinced he has found the woman of his dreams. Wilma, usually the first to help new arrivals, doesn’t want to meet the new school teacher... -
The Pinkerton Matchmaker by Christine Sterling, Marianne Spitzer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPairing prospective lady Pinkerton detectives with rough and ready agents? What could possibly go wrong? Head of the Denver Pinkerton office, Archie Gordon, has been tasked with hiring female agents. The problem? They need to be trained by existing agents while solving cases. Alone and unchaperoned. In 1871. The solution? Have each pair marry temporarily, for the duration of the case...Categorized as:
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Fae's Fantasy by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFae has always believed in true love and happy-ever-afters, even if she'd never thought it was something she would have for herself. As an orphan raised in the Wigg School and Foundling Home, she knows her options are limited, but she's content to spend her life in service to Madam Wigg as a teacher at the school...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 Christmas Quandary by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHoliday surprises await two lonely hearts in Hardman Tom Grove just needs to survive a month at home while he recovers from a work injury. How bad can it be to return to Hardman for the holiday season? He arrives to discover his middle-aged parents acting like newlyweds, the school in need of a teacher, and the girl of his dreams already engaged...Categorized as:
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A Mail-Order Destiny by Janelle Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWillow Packer has one clear goal: to make her business thrive. Determined to collect what is owed her, she confronts her client, the hotel owner's wife, only to end up rescuing another lady from being thrown out on the street... -
Olivia's Obligation by Peggy McKenzie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOlivia Palmer has lived her entire life within the safe, protected walls of Madame Wigg's Foundling Home and School for the forgotten. Now, her benefactor claims she's dying and wants Olivia to choose a husband from a newspaper advertisement. "Choose wisely." The elderly woman counseled. Olivia takes her advice to heart...Categorized as:
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Phebe's Promise by Cathryn Chandler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis head is in the clouds, but her feet are firmly on the ground. Can they ever find a way to make a life together? Phebe became an orphan the day she was born. Her mother died giving birth, waiting for her husband and son to return from the gold fields in California. But neither one was ever heard from again...Categorized as:
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Uma's Umbrage by Dallis Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUma is a spitfire who is usually in an uproar about something—whether it's women's rights, or the Morgan dollar, or labor laws for children. But when she discovers the reason for her abandonment at the orphanage doorsteps was to save her infant self from the same demise as her murdered mother, she finds a new calling...Categorized as:
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Her Unexpected Courtship by Megan Walker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIsabel Reed has promised to marry for love. At present her heart belongs to the one companion she knows accepts all her eccentricities—her horse. So when her older brother threatens to trade the animal on a whim, Isabel must force aside her progressive beliefs and bargain to entertain her brother's flirtatious, albeit handsome, friend Lucas Ashcroft in exchange for keeping her horse... -
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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Mail Order Mother by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaroline Casey is a romantic in a world of realists. When she decides to leave her privileged upbringing to become a mail-order bride, everyone she knows is surprised, but she is convinced she can make a difference and find true love out west. There are two motherless girls who need her and her special brand of loving everyone around her to make their lives complete... -
Mail Order Holly by Charlotte Dearing
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo avoid an unwanted suitor, Holly Ross becomes a mail order bride. She travels to Copper Creek a few short weeks before Christmas. Along the way, she’s asked to take a bundle of letters to a certain cowboy in Copper Creek. They’re from another mail order bride who’s had a change of heart.The journey seems endless. Holly peeks at the letters, reads one, and then another...Categorized as:
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