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The Lady and the Mountain Call by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Christian Historical Romance Novel The wild Montana mountains are no place for an aging widow to live alone with dementia. And when Cathleen Donaghue discovers the poor woman’s condition, there’s no way she’ll walk away without helping. After all, she left her comfortable Boston home to help her brothers with their mining town medical practice because she wanted to make a difference...Categorized as:
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Beyond Montana's Sky by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdith Livingston Grayson can hardly wait to shake the dust of Sweetwater Springs, Montana from her silk skirts. Finally her exile to the small prairie town is over. She is returning home to Boston with her son Ben. Home to society. Home to educated, upper-class people. Home to the ocean... -
Honor in the Mountain Refuge by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis epic journey is his last chance to start a new life.After being cast out of his Blackfoot village for his kindness to the Nez Perce captives, Chogan travels west in search of meaning for his life. Meaning that doesn’t require killing or torturing innocent people. Though the lovely face of Telípe, a Nez Perce woman, is imprinted on his heart, he avoids her village...Categorized as:
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A Heart's Yearning: Hearts of Willow Creek by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom a fan favorite author with more than one million books sold: Four women chase their dreams of love in this western historical series.Jenny has a secret dream that she’s nurtured since childhood. It’s a simple dream. She longs to have a family of her own. But Jenny has always been told she’s far too pretty to make a good wife...Categorized as:
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Singing Montana Sky by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSinging Montana Sky: Book Two of the Maxwell Sisters Trilogy By Debra Holland, NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Beautiful, wealthy, and sophisticated, opera star Sophia Maxwell is living the life of her dreams. As the Songbird of Chicago, she’s lauded for her pure, rich voice and has a constant circle of admirers vying for her jaded attention...Categorized as:
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Dillon by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsaude’s husband, John, had been injured and she desperately needed some cowboys to work the ranch. She found Dillon down on his luck and gave him, and five other young men, a home and trains them. Seven years later she is set on finding brides for all of the young men. Dillon’s not interested. He was robbed of everything by Slick McCall—someone he trusted...Categorized as:
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Wagon Train Wedding: Christian historical romance by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom an award-winning author with more than one million books sold, a new series of four heartwarming historical romances about life on the Santa Fe trail. Note: each book can be read as a stand-alone. Judith Russel is devastated by the death of her fiancé and vows to never again trust her feelings toward a man. Gil Trapper is the wagon train scout and owner of several freight wagons... -
Wanted: Innkeeper: Silverpines Series by Marianne Spitzer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElla Grace Mulvaney, a twenty-two-year-old orphan, lives in the Howard House Orphanage for Girls in Silverpines, Oregon. Along with her eight “sisters,” she has been well educated in decorum, all aspects of taking care of a home, and every subject her spinster guardians deem necessary to survive in a man’s world. When tragedy strikes, Ella Grace is left in charge of the local Inn...Categorized as:
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Faith in the Mountain Valley by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis epic journey is the only way to leave her secrets behind. After eleven years spent looking for the girl who stole his heart, Jean-Jacques Baptiste—better known as French to his friends—is tempted to give up. Until the day he spotted the flaxen-haired stranger traveling the wooded path with Blackfoot Indians...Categorized as:
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On Eagles' Wings by Lynnette Bonner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBoardinghouse owner Dixie Pottinger has done her best to avoid the attractive Dr. Griffin. But now that her mother-in-law is sick and he’s going to be coming around more to care for her, Dixie knows she must inform him about her past. She works up her courage and feels great relief when she finally tells Dr...Categorized as:
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Wagon Train Baby by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom an award-winning author with more than one million books sold, a new series of four heartwarming historical romances about life on the Santa Fe trail. Note: each book can be read as a stand-alone. A life-altering betrayal leaves Donna Grace alone, unmarried, and pregnant. She’s desperate to leave St...Categorized as:
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RNWMP: Bride for Elijah (Mail Order Mounties) by Kay P. Dawson, Mail Order Mounties
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat does a wealthy, pampered woman from the city have in common with a simple Mountie on the frontier? Nothing—and that’s exactly why Miss Hazel Hughes decides they need each other. Rose Lambert has grown up in the wealthy society of Ottawa, but longs for a life where people will respect her for who she is, and not what her family’s status can give them...Categorized as:
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RNWMP: Bride for Joel by Amelia C. Adams, Mail Order Mounties
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvelyn Murray, daughter of Inspector Harold Murray and sister of four constables, has always known that she would never marry anyone but a Mountie. No other man could possibly compare to those tall, strong, noble men in red serge...Categorized as:
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Christmas in Clover Springs by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlicia Carstairs had it all—or so she thought. Financially secure, well brought up, engaged to a prominent young man. So why was she on a train headed west in the hopes of securing a position as a governess? Aaron Higgins thought he was happy until all his friends, his brother and now Little Beaver, too, were married and having children. He wrote to Mrs. Gantley, asking for a bride... -
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Love's Sunrise by Dorothy Wiley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGabe McGrath has secured the title to his land among the blue-green pastures and rolling hills of 1806 frontier Kentucky. During a violent storm--the second worst night of his life--Gabe seeks shelter at the home of a nearby cattleman and meets the man's stunning, strong-willed daughter, Martha Wyllie . Burdens of grief and a desire for justice stand in the way of Gabe's happiness... -
My Girl: A Montana Sky Series Novella by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling author comes a Montana Sky novella of love and loss that coincides with Bright Montana Sky. When a logging accident kills his friend and Felicity Woodbury’s fiancé, Lars Aagaard steps in to lend his support. To keep Felicity’s suitors at bay during her mourning period, the two act as if Lars is wooing her... -
Daughters Of The Valley by Leah Banicki
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAngela Fahey has found a bit of inner strength after returning from California gold territory, with a botched family reunion and a budding romance abruptly cut short she is longing to settle down and begin her own life. Her dear friends in Oregon City are there to encourage her as she finds her own gifts...Categorized as:
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For Love of Liberty by Julie Lessman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Match Made in Heaven?Or Someplace a Whole Lot Warmer?She’s stubborn, educated, and lookingto give women the vote.He’s bullheaded, successful, and lookingto give her a piece of his mind.But when things heat up, they just may give each othera piece of their hearts...Categorized as:
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Second-Chance Bride by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom an award-winning author with more than one million books sold, a new series of four heartwarming historical romances about unexpected brides. America was supposed to provide a new life, but Freyda has found only bitterness since making the treacherous journey from Norway. With her husband now deceased, her survival is in her own hands...Categorized as:
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The Stable Master's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings★★★ The second book in a brand new series from the author that brought you THE CHAPMANS and the best-selling THE BLIZZARD BRIDES series. ★★★A woman needing a home; a man needing a mother for his children and a marriage of convenience that is nothing like they imagined.Hannah Woods has lost everything... -
No One's Bride by Nerys Leigh
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA mail order bride with no intention of marrying, a young postmaster determined to change her mind. It's 1870 and Amy Watts needs help, money, and to get as far away from New York City as possible, and her only hope is to answer an advertisement for a mail order bride. The last thing she needs, however, is a husband...Categorized as:
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Bright Montana Sky by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJilted seamstress Constance Taylor travels to Sweetwater Springs to live with her estranged father, the livery stable owner. She plans to open a dressmaking shop and bring sophisticated clothing styles to the uncouth frontier town. Angus Cameron is a young doctor, who’s bitter and discouraged from his work with upper class Londoners and the wretched poor in the East End slums...Categorized as:
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A Pony Express Romance by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter growing up as an orphan, Josiah English wants nothing more than to have his own ranch and raise Arabian horses. Riding for the Pony Express seems like the ticket to his dream. And when he meets the stationmaster’s beautiful sister, it seems he may be within reach of the happy life he craves...Categorized as:
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A Winter's Vow by Kate Condie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN B0918KRSFN can be found here.A wanted woman. A haunted man. Can a fake marriage save them both, or will their secrets tear them apart?Della Hampton barely escaped her first marriage with her life...Categorized as:
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Doctor in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBeth and Alex survive a stage coach accident. Beth realizes the derelict in the stagecoach with her is a doctor and she forces him to help tend the injured. Alex finds he can care for the patients as long as Beth is right beside him... yelling at him. Alex saves Beth's sister’s life, but he only has the courage to treat patients as long as Beth is there... -
Sharpshooter in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMandy McClellen Grey, has become the focus of a feud thanks to her husband, who made this mess and then died. Far from home, Mandy, the best little rifle woman in the west, has resigned herself to a lonely life under siege rather than call for help and endanger her family...Categorized as:
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Bride for Malcolm by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLearning to live with what fate has dealt her, Annie has accepted that she’ll never be as beautiful as her sister. After her father is arrested, she realizes her entire life has been a lie. She needs to start over somewhere far away, so her friend sends her to see Miss Hazel in Ottawa. Miss Hazel has four Mounties coming for brides before they make the trek into a remote Ontario community...Categorized as:
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A Groom for Claire by Patricia PacJac Carroll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClaire just lost her husband to a blizzard, and she’ll need a man before spring. With two children to raise, she wants out of the farming community and picks a man who she hopes will take her and her family to civilization.Ethan has lived in the city all his life and works as a librarian, but his dream is to be a pioneer farmer...Categorized as:
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A Clear Hope by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a daughter, an older sister, and now a hotel waitress, Abigail Peterson is used to taking care of everyone around her. When a nameless stranger collapses on the train platform and is brought to the Brody Hotel to recover, Abigail steps in to nurse her back to health. Deputy Marshal Gabriel Hanks has seen a lot of violence in his life, and now he works every day to fight it... -
The Whisper of Morning by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaroline Hampton is an unmarried, independent woman, able to come and go as she pleases. Working as the manager of the Brody Hotel has suited her, giving her both a home and a career. But lately, she has begun to feel restless, wondering what else might be out there for her. Since the death of his wife, Wallace Dupree has spent his time alone, working as a train conductor and reading poetry... -
Bobbins and Boots by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow does an act of kindness result in. . . marriage? One carefree cowboy is about to find out in this sweet historical romance! Born dirt-poor into a life of hardship, Allie Tillman seizes the opportunity to better her situation by answering an advertisement for a mail-order bride in the West. Upon her arrival in Baker City, Oregon, she discovers her intended is a low-down, lying thief...Categorized as:
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Bride for Nathaniel by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrowing up an orphan, Claire Anderson had very few people to love. If she found one, she would sacrifice anything to help them. Which is exactly how she found herself out of a job and on the street. With her only friend in the world somewhere out west, married to a Mountie, Claire seeks out the only woman in Ottawa who might be able to help her — Miss Hazel Hughes...Categorized as:
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RNWMP: Bride for Colton by Cassie Hayes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when a lie turns into love? Honor was never a high priority for the thieves and charlatans Gemma Spurling was raised with. When she’s finally old enough to break free of her mother’s control, dear ol’ Mum has other ideas. Just one more swindle, she says, but Gemma knows it will never stop. The only way to live the honorable life she truly wants is to escape Ottawa forever... -
An Agent for Delilah by Kate Marie Clark
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA seasoned agent, dreading the prospect of marrying to keep his job, and a feisty woman determined to make her own way in life. Will they learn to trust each other and find their own happy ending? Delilah Fulmer is bent on escaping the rowdy home of her childhood. With little to recommend herself besides scrappiness and grit, she answers an ad to become a Pinkerton agent... -
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Quinlan's Quest: A Lipstick and Lead Story by Sylvia McDaniel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvil touched Quinlan once. Will it do so again?The best thing that ever happened to Quinlan Clark was the day the law took her to an orphanage. Now, the time has come for Quinlan and the other young teachers to go out on their own as mail-order brides. But childhood nightmares still haunt Quinlan, keeping her terror of men firmly set...Categorized as:
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Tillie's Theatre by Keira K. Barton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTillie Thompson does not want to be a mail-order bride. Relinquishing the choice of who she falls in love with feels like giving up the only decision that would truly be her own in shaping her future. With the prospect of opening her own school—which will have an arts-based curriculum—hanging in the balance, Tillie decides to risk her autonomy on the handsome Dr. William T...Categorized as:
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Wendi's Wish by Danni Roan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWendalynn Wigg will tackle any problem head-on, so when she's offered her chance at a school of her own, becoming a mail-order bride should be no obstacle at all. Setting her heart on a life dedicated to instilling a lifelong love of learning in needy children, she sets out for Nebraska, where a lonely preacher is in need of a wife...Categorized as:
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Zara's Zephyr by Janelle Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZara Wigg is a dreamer. So, when she’s offered the chance to build her own school and become a mail-order bride, she agrees to all conditions—including the one about taking a husband. But when she arrives in Promise Creek and discovers the man she’s fallen in love with through letters isn’t her intended, those dreams collapse. Thaddeus Gray has one goal: to strike it rich...Categorized as:
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Charming the Caregiver by Marianne Spitzer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaterina Lorbiecki wanted to raise her daughter and continue her nursing career away from the memories and difficulties of living with her brother and sister-in-law and the unwanted advances of her employer. The young widow is recommended for a nurse’s position in the Western town of Creede, Colorado. Logan O’Leary arrives in Creede to work with his brother after a failed romance...Categorized as:
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Forever Christmas by Cat Cahill
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA lonely cowboy. A young widow. A Christmas to remember.Elizabeth Hartley Campbell arrives at the Crest Stone Hotel, widowed and searching for the brother she hasn't seen in seven years. Distraught to learn he's left, she takes a job as a Gilbert Girl at the hotel's restaurant...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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An Irish Blessing by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Montana Sky Series NOVELLA by Debra Holland, NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Healer Alana O’Donnell travels to her uncle’s home on the prairie outside of Sweetwater Springs to nurse her ailing aunt, leaving her twin Bridget behind at the Thompson ranch... -
A Rolling Stone by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook Three in the Irish Sisters Trilogy, A Montana Sky Series novella, by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Debra Holland Abandoned by the father of her illegitimate baby and pretending to be a widow, Catriona O’Donnell leaves Ireland to find her twin sisters in America... -
Cash's Promise: Cowboys of Coulee Crossing by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom a fan favorite author with more than one million books sold: Four brothers find love in unexpected places in this western historical series. Mail-order bride? Try mail-order disaster. Theresa’s late husband was a liar and abuser. Now that he’s dead, she’s alone and very pregnant. The last thing she wants is another man in her life. Cash Hooper has known his share of loss...Categorized as:
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The Cattle Rustler and the Runaway Bride by Wanda Ann Thomas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWyatt Haven enjoyed spicing up life with dashes of humor and excitement until his antics ended in a tragedy. He makes the painful decision to leave his beloved home and family and join a Wild West show, but a beautiful Englishwoman’s plight waylays him when she accepts his impulsive offer to help her save her horses...Categorized as:
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The Rancher Takes a Cowgirl by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrace Harper is in hiding. When her father died six months before, she never imagined her unexpected inheritance would threaten her life. What better place to disappear than on a cattle ranch, doing the work she spent the last nine years helping her father with? And surely she’ll be safe hidden in Texas, thousands of miles from her trouble...Categorized as:
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A Rocky Mountain Romance by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Christian Historical Romance Novel Zeche Reid is on a journey to find himself, and the Wyoming mountain country seems like the perfect place. But when he stumbles upon a lady and her professor father holed up in a remote cabin, his protective instincts won't let him leave them alone. Especially when the father’s haunting memories from the War of Succession put his daughter’s safety at risk...Categorized as:
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A Secret Brother's Vow by Kate Condie
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIllegitimate. Ruined. Two harsh words that leave two lost souls in search of belonging...Christian Milnes can think of nothing besides meeting the four Graham siblings who share his blood. Ever since he learned of their existence he cannot pass a stranger without wondering if they could be his family...Categorized as:
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Building Forever by Cat Cahill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA haunting guilt. A family to save. A love that can’t be.When Emma Daniels’ well-to-do family finds itself destitute, she answers an ad for the Gilbert Company seeking young women to be waitresses at hotel restaurants along remote railroad lines out west. The rules for a Gilbert Girl are work hard, act respectably at all times, and no courting allowed...Categorized as:
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A Bartered Bride by Cat Cahill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Matthew Canton advertised for a mail-order bride, he didn't expect to have to bargain for her.Sophia Zane didn't expect to have her brilliant plan go awry, or to be saved by a man who assumes she's going to marry him...Categorized as:
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