Showing results by publisher "Quietly Blessed and Loved Press" in Historical Fiction

Planting a Garden Of Love is a beautiful story about a reluctant mail order bride who is sent off to California by her parents after a cholera epidemic. What she finds there is a potential husband who is not as promised, and the desire to run right back home.

Sally was a devout Christian orphan girl living simply in New York City until a friend handed her a letter, which would change her life forever. Her parents had sent it and not only did she learn they were alive; but that they had a potential husband for her and he would be waiting on their estate. She embarks on the days-long journey across the country and there she meets Mark, who is everything she’d want in a husband, if only she wasn’t already promised to another.

After watching her mother die from a random gunshot wound, the little girl withdrew into a world of her own, leaving her father unable to cope or understand how he can save her. He decides to advertise for a mail order bride - not one to marry but a teacher to help his daughter get better. A life-changing and emotional event concludes the story.

Room For One In The Back Of The Wagon, is the story about a family traveling West along the Oregon Trail and the many challenges they face along the way. The family bible is their source of inspiration and for one young woman a guide to her growing love for a young man ‘a few wagons over'.

Riding her own horse and dressed in working buckskins, Rebecca shows up at his ranch in California, unannounced, after finding his ad in her newspaper. He begrudgingly lets her stay if she'll cook them three meals a day and do some other 'womanly' chores. This she does not want because she thinks it's a big waste of her talent.

The Western Mail Order Bride Company, is a wonderful story about a couple of lonely men in a dusty western town in the late 1800s, and their encounter with an enterprising yet mysterious couple who are a bit mysterious, and who own a business called the Western Mail Order Bride Company. They specialize in bringing women from a variety of social backgrounds, to the western town to be married to men and through some sort of divine intervention, they are often successful.

A woman and her sister are sent out to Texas for one of them to be a mail order bride to a disabled war veteran rancher with one hand, and as a new mother to his two children. The rancher hadn’t known he could ever love again, but when he first saw Beth, he realized instantly that she would be the one to save him. His brother is there at the ranch and he realizes that he’s also in love with Beth’s sister. Their life and love together develops slowly, until something happens later that will change six lives forever

Is He a Mail Order Husband Sent by God?: June Finds Rico on the Prairie is about the oldest of six children who, with their mother in frail health and their father gone for weeks, finds a severely wounded man on the prairie as she takes her normal early morning ride. With the help of her siblings and mother, June manages to get him back to their ranch to try to heal him. As the time when her father is to return approaches, all wonder what will be thought of the man who June has grown fond of, and if he will be allowed to stay a while longer.

Maggie Falls Off A Train is about an independent Victorian woman who travels from London to New York, in order to get a business degree and run her father’s business back in the old country. She falls sick and is advised by a doctor to take a semester off from the university and recuperate in California. As she gets off the train she faints, and literally falls into Tom’s arms. She finds out later why he just happened to be at the train station at that very moment in time.

This collection contains the four Christian Western Romance audiobooks, including Mail Order Bride: Jasmine’s Lonely Cowboy, an emotional story about a lonely man with children who sends away for a mail order bride, and in return, gets so much more than he expected. Mail Order Bride: Sent by God to the California Cowboy is about a young woman in New York City who has fallen onto hard times after being released from the orphanage she’d been in for a majority of her life.

This Is the Way, Walk in It is a story about a woman who, because of family obligations, is forced to leave her new fiancé from back east and travel west along the Oregon Trail to California. There's an accident and some new friends help her find the right path to the West. Emma also finds a love within the wagon train itself.

God's Way of Sending a Mail Order Husband: Abby, William, and the Little Man is about young Abby who just loves horses. She is out riding one day when she hears a thud and then a groan and then a mustang runs right past her and her mare. She finds out that the thud was the son of a neighboring rancher who she hasn't seen for years. When she looks into his gray eyes, she is hooked.

Mail Order Bride: Sheriff Nathan Falls In Love With Drunken Lizzie, presents us with is the story of a sheriff in California, a good Christian man, who tries to help and look after everyone in the small town he works in, including the local drunk. When he asks his mother back east if she knows any woman who would like to live in California and be his bride she sends him someone but Nathan is shocked when a fiery woman shows up on the train, and it's very evident that besides being beautiful, she is also very tipsy.

Mail Order Husband: To the Ranch and Meeting Virginia & Her Hidden Sister is about a lonely dockworker who travels west to meet a woman living on a rundown ranch, hoping to find love and companionship with a Christian woman. After a very brief amount of time, he finds himself in love. There is only one obstacle; he has never met her sister who lives in a bedroom upstairs. As he declares his love, events unfold that provide an emotional ending to the tale.

Mail Order Bride: Emily Seeks out the Traveling Preacher for Love is the emotional story of a Southern woman, right before the Civil War, who is determined to find a childhood sweetheart in a traveling preacher. When he told her that his life was being an evangelist and that traveling across the country wasn't exactly a good life for a Southern lady, she told him that she wanted to join him in his ministry, as she had attended school and learned all about preaching.

When Jessie, a woman traveling west to an already established mission, finds a wounded Native American man, despite much opposition, decides to nurse him back to health because she knows it's what God wants. Despite hatred amongst some members of the train for the young man, she triumphs and is able to get him back on his feet, even though another attack almost kills him again.

Mail Order Bride: Sarah's Damaged Cowboy, is the story of a rancher in Texas, Hawk, who decides to write away for a big city bride from New York. Instead, he gets a relationship which starts out with untruths and a strange lack of empathy, let alone love, between the couple. Added to the mix is Sarah's sister, Susan, and a young ranch hand who works for Hawk, Johnny.

Mercy Found Along the Oregon Trail: A Child Leads the Way is about a young, single Amish woman traveling with her parents along the Oregon Trail. She is both adamant about remaining unmarried, becoming a schoolteacher, and having many children. The only problem with her plan is that Amish schoolteachers must remain single and have no children of their own. She is very conflicted but strong willed and with the help of an older woman friend on the train, a young man who loves her, and a very large surprise found along the trail, she may just be able to overcome the odds.

Emma's Place is at the End of the Oregon Trail, is a powerful story about how one, then two, then more women, escaped domestic abuse in the mid 1800s by taking the Oregon Trail, and what happened at the end of their journey.

The Western Mail Order Bride: James Gets His Georgia Peach gives us the story of James, who settled in California and made a life and homestead and ranch for himself along with his brother and his wife.