A sweet wholesome historical romance set in 1890. Lilly Lind was forced to emigrate from Sweden two years ago, due to circumstances beyond her control. She finds a job as a garment maker in the Brown Textile Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, finally feeling as though she is settling in her new country. Then a suspicious fire burns the mill, making Lilly seek another way to survive. She answers a mail-order bride ad in the Grooms' Gazette and sets off for Chicago, believing she will be a business owner's wife. Kansas rancher Seth Reagan travels to the Union Stockyards in Chicago to attend the...

Alice: Bride of Rhode Island is thirteenth in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series. Fleeing her stepfather and an arranged marriage in Newport, Alice Endicott finds work as a seamstress at the Brown Textile Mill near Boston. When a devastating fire destroys the factory, she and all the girls face dire unemployment circumstances. But hope arrives when their manager, Roberta McDaniel, shares the Grooms' Gazette with them. Each woman will choose a husband and become a mail-order bride. As Alice's friends-Lottie, Leora, Judith, Beth, Lessie and Josie-embrace the idea, she...

The O'Brien siblings discover love when a mail-order bride travels west, and a matchmaking experiment goes awry... Victoria, Bride of Kansas Jilted society miss Victoria Lowell travels a thousand miles to marry a suitor whose romantic letters won her heart. David O'Brien didn't pen those sappy letters. In fact, he isn't even expecting her. When the truth finally comes out, it will take a miracle to deliver a happily ever after. Santa's Mail-Order Bride On a mission to bring toys to orphans for Christmas, schoolteacher Maggie O'Brien is forced to go to her brother's fiercest competitor for...