Emmy-Lou Waters and Gilbert Milligan have been writing a great many letters declaring their love for each other, and the lovely young girl's eccentric Aunt Beryl has just about warmed to the idea they might marry. But for the longest time, Emmy-Lou's rich banker father refuses to consider it. He plans to marry Emmy-Lou off to the vain, foppish son of a powerful railroad owner, to forge an alliance between the two families. Unable to get Emmy-Lou to see things his way, her father consents to travel with the girl and her kind aunt to Come-By-Chance, to meet Gilbert for himself, and find a way...

Love is in the air in the town of Come-By-Chance In this much-loved series strong women risk everything to rise above their desperate circumstances, find true love, and wed real men who'll treat them right. Meet Ruby - She's lost her Ma, and struck out into the world on her own. The good news is she's traveled to Pittsburgh and found a good job as a schoolmistress. The bad news is, the school's owner, the portly, whiskey-breathed Mister Murphy, has developed wandering hands, and Mrs Murphy's preparing to leave to visit her sister for a month in New York. Ruby sees an advertisement in the...

It's 1884, and love is in the air in the town of Come-By-Chance In this much-loved series strong women risk everything to rise above their desperate circumstances, find true love, and wed real men who'll treat them right. Meet Emily - She's lost her Pa, can't find a job and her money's almost all gone. After witnessing a man being strangled, the strangler gives chase, and Emily ends up on a train headed for who knows where She travels along with Emmy-Lou, who is running away to become a mail order bride. When Emmy-Lou's rich Aunt intercepts her along the way, they come up with a plan for...

One horserace Two weddings Three Wilkinson brothers all wed by the end Four hand-carved posts on a brand new matrimonial bed Five-and-twenty pies at the First Annual Come-By-Chance Pie Making Contest You might be surprised to find that more than one of your favorite characters will find true love in Book 3, Violet Who will Violet marry? Will it be Ben? One of the Carmichael brothers? Surely not Wally Davis? It's time to catch up with the Come-By-Chance townsfolk: the strapping Wilkinson brothers, Ben, Matt and Toby; the wicked saloon owner Slim Jim; the lovely Lettie; and of course,...

"It's 1884, and love is in the air in the town of Come-By-Chance " In this much-loved series strong women risk everything to rise above their desperate circumstances, find true love, and wed real men who'll treat them right. Feisty intelligent widow Kate Munro has a good life in Pittsburgh - until the corrupt Samuel "Bullyboy" Murphy causes her to unfairly lose her position as a postmistress. Kate is to be cast out into the street With no other options, she must accept an offer of marriage from a mature man who lives near the town of Come-By-Chance, Montana. Can she sacrifice her...

In the early hours of an icy Montana morning, the recently widowed Rose Gray wraps her baby up tight in a blanket, and escapes from the home that now belongs to her greedy and powerful in-laws. She travels to Come-By-Chance to meet young fur-trapper Henry Miller, who has agreed to marry her if she will come - but Henry knows nothing of Rose's baby, or even her seven-year marriage. Can Rose expect such a young man to accept not just herself, but her baby daughter as well? Might Rose and Henry find love amidst all the troubles that threaten to tear them apart? And what is Rose's secret - a...

English rose Sarah Cumberbatchreceives an ultimatum from her parents - Marry Lord Foppington's lazy, womanizing, good-for-nothing son, or be thrown into the street, penniless. Eager for adventure, she answers a newspaper advertisement from a rich Montana rancher, and travels across the high seas to meet him. Sarah soon has to deal with drunks, a coach accident, racial hatred, a hungry bear, wild men taking the law into their own hands, and more heartbreak than she ever expected. Will jealousy and racial hatred rob Sarah of her chance of happiness? Or might she find true love and finally, a...