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Reese Tait is a single rancher with two small children and a run-down ranch to care for, and he’s running out of time. Aileen Warrick is a young widow with debts to pay and nowhere to turn. She’s also running out of time. Valerie Tait is the frustrated, lovelorn bride who brings them together.

When Elan Beauregard’s best friend brings him a mail order bride to be his fiancée, Elan is outraged. Yet, he cannot very well send the woman away, so she temporarily settles into his household. Elan is surprised when his eight-year-old foster daughter, Kate, bonds with the lovely stranger quickly. Mail order bride Juliana Wills is mortified to discover she is supposed to marry a hard-bitten man who clearly does not like her. She is drawn to his little girl, however, and easily communicates with Kate who is deaf. But after a difficult two weeks, Juliana packs her things and leaves.

Shiloh Wheaton has spent four years recovering from the greatest tragedy of her young life - the accident that claimed her parents and left her with a ghastly scar across her face. Now 22, it’s time to leave Boston and start over fresh somewhere else. But where? Widowed father - and the preacher of Shadow Gulch, Idaho - David Thompkins is seeking a mother for his five-year-old daughter. He writes to a matrimonial agency back east for a suitable bride.

Angie Rosewood makes a big mistake: She falls in love with her employer’s son, Marcus Donahue. By some miracle, he falls for her, too. If they are caught speaking to each other, she will be fired. Marcus swears he’ll take care of things, but he doesn’t get the chance. After Marcus leaves on a business trip, Angie is summoned to the housekeeper’s office. The head housekeeper takes joy in telling Angie she’s been seen kissing Marcus, and her employment is terminated. When she reads an advert for mail-order brides, it seems the only answer to her prayers.

Mary Rose Martin is desperate. With seven younger sisters all happily married, her wealthy Virginia family is starting to give up on her, and she faces the dismal fate of being an old maid. Her only choice is to marry Thorton Ellis, 30 years her senior - and completely odious. Mary Rose can’t face the prospect of spending her life with him. Instead, she flees, and gets on the first train West.

Ashton Milford’s twin brother, Noel, is gunned down by outlaw Hank Riley. Noel’s dying wish is for Ashton to marry his intended bride, a woman Ashton knows nothing about. Later, Ashton regrets promising to marry this mystery woman in Noel’s stead and hopes she stays away from the family ranch. Delia Wayne and her young son, Josh, have lost everything. Only the hope of marriage to a rancher named Noel in Nebraska offers them any sort of future. She and Josh arrive in Planter’s Point, and Delia thinks she will soon wed the man she fell in love with through letters.

Terence Heaton believes he’ll never find love. Not only are women in scarce supply in the frontier town of Little Rock, Arkansas, but all the girls stare at him like he’s something mysterious and dangerous. He loved his Cherokee mother, yet the townsfolk never understood her. Except for his housekeeper Harriet, the women in town have labeled him an outcast.

Amelia Turner is tired of living her boring, pampered life. She craves adventure and a new life out West. Ben Thompson is still grieving the loss of his wife, but he knows their son needs a mother, so with reluctance, he places an advert for a Mail Order Bride. He is immediately matched with Amelia. When Amelia arrives in Montana, their first meeting does not go well. Both fear they have made the wrong decision. This is not the adventure Amelia expected, nor is it the smooth transition Ben wanted.

Lily Montgomery’s parents have died, leaving Lily and her younger sister, Hope, to struggle with the debts left behind. Jobs are sparser than ever—and it seems Lily’s only option is to become a Mail Order Bride.

Maggie Foster has a reputation for pouring her heart into her work. As a nurse in training in one of Philadelphia’s many hospitals, she has no shortage of patients who appreciate her care – but when the hospital is suddenly closed, she finds herself at loose ends. Accepting a marriage proposal seems to be her only option. Soon she finds herself engaged to a man she’s never met – but the surprises she anticipates aren’t the surprises she finds once she arrives in Miles Gulch, Wyoming.

Ian Ross has worked hard all his life, and finally, he’s seeing the results: a prosperous ranch in Wise River, Montana, with a beautiful home he shares with his elderly parents, plus a sweet and pretty Mail Order Bride on the way. But when his newly built home, the pride of Ross Hollow Ranch, burns down overnight, everything goes sour. Suddenly, Ian is back where he started, scrounging for supplies, and living in a hastily built shack. The last thing he wants or needs is the responsibility of a wife in the middle of winter.

Neither Ellie Dawson nor Jonathan Hart are strangers to tragedy. Though they have never met, both have lost parents and sisters, and are alone in the world. When a matrimonial agency matches the two as husband and wife, it seems common ground isn’t enough to make a successful marriage.

Asher Anderson carries a heavy weight on his shoulders. Not just the weight of responsibility as the deputy sheriff for Culver’s Creek, Missouri. Not just the weight of his dwindling family, as his grandfather grows weaker, and his aunt begins to lose her memory. No, it’s more than that, for Asher can’t shake the ghost of the wife he lost to a bandit raid, eight years before. He could never be untrue to Scarlett’s memory—so he’s sworn off love for good.

Shane Ellis is in dire straits. With a ranch to run, his brother’s children to take care of, and nothing but tragedy in his romantic life, he’s got his hands full. When his mother becomes injured, he’s left with no choice but to bring someone in to help. Local girl Trudie Stevenson is willing to help a handsome bachelor out, but instead, he sends for a Mail Order Bride, Clara Goodwin.

Sarah Jennings hasn’t had an easy life. Raised in an orphanage, she’s desperate to get away. Answering an advert for a mail-order bride seems to be her only choice. Jack Thompson is well-known as a catch in Mossy Meadow, Nebraska. But he’s a widower, with a little girl and a mother to care for. More than that, he never recovered from the death of his first wife. The last thing he wants is to marry again. But his mother takes the choice out of his hands and writes an advert for a mail-order bride.

With a broken heart, James Clyde’s swears he’s done with love. His marriage will be one of convenience, only to ensure an heir to the family ranch. But when Alisha Smith shows up in Culver’s Creek, it’s clear all bets are off. Alisha is smart, stubborn, compassionate, good with horses...and the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen. On top of that, she’s the kind of girl who believes in love at first sight. And her first sight of James might be enough to prove her theory true. But Alisha’s got her own sad story, the kind of past all too familiar to James.

Liliana Elison lives a life of tragedy. Her only love died young; taken from her before they had even married. A romantic at heart, she truly believes she will never be able to move past her tragic past and find love again. Her guardian, Aunt Hester, has other notions. Ruthlessly puncturing Lili’s romantic ideals, Aunt Hester signs her up with a matrimonial agency, and before Lili knows it, she’s a mail order bride for a rancher in Culver’s Creek, Colorado.

When Lily Jones is left by her betrothed, she fears her heart will never fully recover. With no family, Lily decides to follow through on a match made by a matrimonial agency–a match with a wealthy rancher in Mountain Pass, Oregon. Daniel Brown is in his early 30s, a life-long bachelor, and the only inheritor of the beautiful, sprawling acreage of Delia Ranch. But there’s a secret or two that didn’t quite make it into his letter of application for a mail order bride: Daniel has a past that left him broken.

Life isn’t easy for a small-town sheriff–especially when he’s trying to raise two energetic seven-year-olds. When he realizes his children are becoming too much for his aging aunt, Sheriff Caleb Murray decides it’s time to remarry.

Mike Keating of Mine’s Place, Colorado, is nursing a heart broken by the loss of his wife. He thinks it might be time to move on, and he’s got his eye on Rachel Spencer. But when a twist of fate throws him together with newcomer Selena Brown, he has to ask himself: Could she be the one to fill the void in his heart? And does he have it in him to be a father to a stranger’s children?