Leah Peterson’s life in New York City is not easy. The man she was going to marry has just run off, taking her savings with him. Plus, she’s been laid off from the factory where she works, and her rent is due. When all options fail, Leah has one thing left - a leap of faith. For Leah, her leap of faith means applying to a matrimonial agency. Within days, she’s matched with a rancher in Crooked Creek, Colorado. A rancher named Clifford Reynolds - a rancher with no idea someone has arranged a Mail Order Bride for him...

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.

Abby is desperate to get away from her stepfather when she loses her mother, terrified of what he will do to her. A marriage of convenience to rancher Samuel in Oregon is her only way out of a dire situation. Samuel is raising his friends' daughters and needs a wife to help him care for them.

Edward Ahlborn is a prodigal son. After almost a decade away from home, he returns to the family ranch in Culver’s Creek, Montana to visit his parents, sisters, and his twin brother Will. Ten years will change any man, and he wonders what his family will think of him, now that he’s been away.

Hayley Roxbury must escape her abusive and alcoholic husband, Roger. Born to wealth and privilege in Pennsylvania, she plans to go live with her grandmother in the remote and wild Wyoming territory. With the help of good friends, she flees her home and husband. Matt Westman, a rancher in Miles Gulch, Wyoming, is tasked with picking up Mrs. Parkland’s granddaughter at the train station. To his delight, she is poised, graceful, and impossibly beautiful. 

Jael Wheeler’s life in Philadelphia turns upside down with the tragic loss of her father, who leaves her penniless. To survive, Jael becomes a Mail Order Bride. Upon finding a man willing to marry her, Jael heads for Montana, only to discover her fiancé has fled, chasing another woman to Denver. Now, a mysterious cowboy haunts Jael, following her and watching her every move. Women are going missing, and rumor has it, they’re being sold to miners. 

Sally Johnson is sick of her life - sick of the upper class, sick of the social gatherings, sick of the dirty, bustling city, and truly sick of never feeling as though she is good enough. When the odious son of a failing steel baron announces they are engaged in order to marry into her rich family, Sally is truly fed up. Taking her life in her hands, she runs away and decides to become a mail-order bride.

When Halley Englewood’s godfather sells her hand in marriage to a despicable man, Halley secretly writes to a a mail-order bride agency. She receives an offer of marriage from Rawley Harrison, a rancher from Fielder’s Union, Arkansas - a man who is struggling to overcome his last fiancée’s betrayal. Sensing Rawley’s hesitation, Halley boards at the local guest house in Fielder’s Union. 

Society belle Sybil Webb is certain she is destined for something better than the social scene of Boston. Desperate to find a way out from under the thumb of her upwardly mobile father, she answers a newspaper advert for a mail-order bride. But escaping Boston was the easy part of Sybil’s adventure. Her intended groom, Dr. Henry Miller, is not what he appeared to be. Alone in a strange town, Sybil takes shelter with the friendly Frost family, where she finds herself challenged by—and undeniably drawn to—the Frost’s cousin, Brian Smith, a handsome man embittered by lost love.

Desperate to help her family, Elaine Rockmont agrees to marry Rodney Kingman, an ordinary bank teller in Fort Riggins, Montana. On the train west, she meets the handsome and entertaining Billy Warwick. The trip passes quickly in Billy’s company, yet she is promised to Rodney. Billy regrets leaving the beautiful and enticing Elaine at the hotel with Rodney. Later, when a pretty young lady shows off a nervous horse as a “wedding present” to Rodney and Elaine, she is thrown from the saddle. Rodney’s quick and intense response is puzzling. What is going on here?

Mallory Stewart’s father arranges a marriage between her and the town’s mayor. The mayor is an odious man, and Mallory wants nothing to do with him. She escapes the marriage when he is arrested for stealing from the town’s treasury. Frank Griffin needs a wife. But in Spring Valley, Texas, potential wives are hard to come by. Frank learns of a mail order bride agency, and thinking himself a fool, he sends an application. A month later, he receives a letter from a lady back East who agrees to marry him.

When his young wife dies unexpectedly, Jed McBride has a tough time looking after his young daughter Josie. He decides to send for a mail order bride, hoping to find someone to help take care of his little girl. Across the country, Estelle Morrow is desperate to get away from the Slate Gang and their ruthless leader Amos. As a young girl, she joined her brother as a member of the gang, but now, she wants nothing more than to escape the life of crime.

When Margaret Jameston’s father passes away, her whole life changes. In one swift blow, she goes from the coddled, spoiled daughter of a doting father to a penniless pauper, entirely dependent on the charity of others. As she seeks to take control of her life again, employment proves impossible to find - and that’s what leads her to the matrimonial agency, and ultimately to Shadow Gulch, Idaho.

With both parents working all hours and four younger brothers at home, the care and keeping of the household is squarely on her shoulders. When her father forces her to find a job in addition to everything else, it proves to be too much. Desperate for a way out, Mandy agrees to become a mail-order bride and marry a man she’s never met—a ranch hand named Matthew Bostwick, in Mine’s Place, Colorado. But traveling from Boston to Colorado is just the beginning of Mandy’s journey. 

Jennifer Mason loves medicine. She lives on the family farm with her beloved younger brother, feeds her thirst for medical knowledge through any books she can find, and spends her time learning from the doctor in town and the nearby Shawnee medicine man. Then tragedy strikes, and Jennifer’s life is changed forever. Unable to save her brother’s life after a horrifying accident, Jennifer wonders whether her search for knowledge was a waste. Unsure of herself and driven by loneliness and despair, she takes the first option she finds for a new start.