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Clark Reynolds harbors a love for poetry and writing that his family will never understand. When he writes to a matrimonial agency for a mail-order bride, the last thing he expects is to find someone who shares this love - but Julie Hazelton exceeds all his expectations. When she arrives at Crooked Creek to begin their courtship, he’s stunned by her beauty, intelligence, and her understanding of Clark himself.

Christian Reynolds is never one to shirk his duty - from helping Sheriff Archer in the middle of a saloon brawl to keeping a promise to a friend. The last thing Christian expects is to find himself promising to take care of someone else’s Mail Order Bride. When his friend Matt Brown lies dying, Christian promises to watch over Matt’s newly arriving bride. But when Christian meets Faye Dunell from Boston, he fears what his promise might mean.

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...

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.

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.

For the past year, Natalie York has watched her loved ones discover their happy endings. Her friends, Crystal and Ernest, are happily married with a small child. Her brother, Colin, has finally married Mandy, and they’re expecting their first baby. Yet Natalie, an unwed mother in a small community, has long since given up on finding a romance of her own. Until Emory Spencer comes into her life.

When Mandy Chambers loses her job at the factory, she has no option but to become a mail-order bride. Forced to leave their home in West Virginia, she and her younger sister, Crystal, head across the country to a rancher named Ernest Flinn in Pepper Gulch, Utah. But things are a more complicated than the girls originally thought.

Mandy Chambers is moving to Pepper Gulch, Utah, to become a mail-order bride to rancher Ernest Flinn. But when she arrives, everything changes. Now, her younger sister and Ernest are happily married and expecting their first child. The more Mandy sees the happiness of her sister, the more she wants that same happiness for herself. But Pepper Gulch isn’t a big town, and Mandy despairs of finding someone special.

When the notorious Linch Gang strikes in Rough Creek, Missouri, deputy sheriff Jordan Tredwell finds himself with a big responsibility on his hands - find the Linch Gang and bring them to justice, all while stepping into the shoes of the former sheriff. Jordan pours himself into the task, putting everything else on hold - which worries his mother to no end. Afraid that Jordan will make himself sick - or put himself in great danger, she follows the lead of another local family and writes for a Mail Order Bride...on her son’s behalf.

Justine Russell has lost the man she loves. Now her father wants her to marry the son of his old friend in Missouri. How can Justine leave her native Boston for the Wild West? How can she marry a man she’s never met? Riley McPherson’s father informs him he is to marry his friend’s daughter, Justine. Unwilling to follow his father’s wishes, Riley rebels. How can he marry a stranger? Why should he? Left at the altar by the only woman he’s ever loved, Riley will not trust his heart to another.

When her betrothed leaves her for another woman, Celina Murray is distraught. Certain that she will never love again, she agrees to a marriage of convenience, arranging to care for two small children of a bachelor guardian. But love is not an option. Carrying his own load of tragedy and rejection, Sheriff Troy Faraday is just as sure that he can never again trust - or love - a woman.

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.

Life isn’t easy for a Mail Order Bride…especially when the bride isn’t sure she wants to be one in the first place. But when Naomi Paxton is left a young widow, her friend Kate suggests she apply to a bridal agency along with her. At a loss for what else to do, Naomi agrees, and is matched up with a young store owner named Steven Wragley in Rough Creek, Missouri.

Christmas happens everywhere – except in Daniel Whitmore’s house. After losing his wife during the holidays five years before, Daniel has forbidden his children to celebrate any of the traditions they once loved. It seems things will stay like that forever – until his teenage daughter Melina comes up with a plan.

When Hanna Wagner overhears her widowed stepmother planning to sell her in marriage, she has no choice but to escape Boston. She writes to a rancher in Rough Creek, Missouri, as a mail-order bride, and believes she has found both her escape and her ideal husband in Trent Flannigan.

Raising his three rambunctious children on a small farm in Shallow Gorge, Colorado, Billy Spence is at his wits’ end. It’s hard enough to eke out a living in such a rough area; it’s even harder caring for three little ones on his own. He’s desperate for a solution and would sure like to have one by Christmas.... After her last living relative succumbs to the Russian flu that cold December, Alice Fletcher wants to leave her nursing job in New York and settle somewhere new and fresh.

There aren’t many options for a young woman in Philadelphia during the late 1800s — especially if she’s running away from an abusive family. Eighteen-year-old Aimee Mitcham flees the city for Rough Creek, Minnesota, to meet the man she has agreed to marry. As she waits at the train station to meet her new husband, tragedy strikes. Now left alone and surrounded by strangers, Aimee is grateful to be taken in by handsome rancher Gregory Keegan and his spirited mother Sheila.

After a devastating rejection years ago, Bailey Evans has given up on finding love. Instead, he pours his energy into running the frontier town’s Hardware and Tinware Shop with his best friend, Jacob. But when Jacob is brutally killed in a robbery, his final whispered words seem to gesture toward a future Bailey didn’t think possible....Kathryn Sandridge has been discriminated against her whole life. Despite growing up in a loving home in Boston, she worries that her physical appearance - one brown and one blue eye - is too off-putting to attract a suitor.

Francis Jones, known as Jonesy, never intends to get married. He is too busy building his future - his small and budding ranch in the foothills of Colorado. But when he is shot by outlaws, the local doctor reminds him of his loneliness and urges him to find a mail-order bride. Jocelyn Baxter, a native of New York, promises her dying aunt she will find a husband in the West. She’ll build a future as a mail-order bride by marrying a man in needs of a wife.

Rancher Roby Bradford isn’t looking for a wife, but he changes his mind when he receives letters from a charming widow in Boston. Valerie Hartmann must escape the trap her powerful brother-in-law, Edward Hartmann, has set for her - marry him or lose her five-year-old son, Joshua. Her only hope is to flee with Joshua and marry Roby in Planters Point, Nebraska. But Edward discovers where Valerie has fled. He boards a train west, and upon arrival, begins hunting her down.