In 1870, Hazel Lynn Morgan was a girl right on the verge of becoming a woman. She lives in a small town on a farm in Ohio, where nothing new or exciting ever happens. She has survived this long by reading books about exotic places and using her imagination, or what her Ma has termed, her "Magical Thinking." Will a simple mail order bride ad placed by a cattle rancher in Texas named Heath Key change Hazel's life for the better? Or will the secret that Heath is hiding threaten to ruin both of their lives? Will the man who has been by Heath's side as his best friend since childhood bring them...

This is the story of two sisters from the East who hear a man speaking at their church of the opportunity and need for women in the west. He shows them a paper called Matrimonial News, filled with photos of men looking for women to start a new life with. He was looking to benefit by capitalizing on the disproportionate amount of men to women in the West by telling them that if they agreed to it..., everyone was a winner. Eliza is skeptical, having a hard time accepting that marriage should be about social and economic security alone, but her older sister, Maggie, who she has always taken care...

A historical western cowboy romance story about a mail order bride. While Hazel and Heath plan for the birth of their first child, and John and Becky get married and prepare for their lives together, another bride is making her way to Texas. Louise is from Massachusetts. She's a well-educated, well-bred young lady whose father chose to send her to Texas to marry a pastor in a church in the town where Key Ranch is. Upon arriving in Texas, Louise will first meet the man of her dreams, and then realize that man is not the one she's here to marry, but instead her betrothed is a man over twice her...

A historical western cowboy romance story about a mail order bride. Hazel is planning her first Christmas with Heath and their wedding. She's also plotting to help John, Heath's best friend and partner find a love of his own. The problem is, John is already in love...With Hazel. It will take John a wild ride across Texas and a gunfight alongside desperate men to realize that what he needed wasn't necessarily what he thought he wanted. But is it too late?

A historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. Life in Denver's high society was good for the Standish family prior to 1886. Grace Standish was raising her two lovely young daughter's to be ladies and teaching them what they needed to know to become wives to one of the young gentlemen in Colorado's elite society. Rebecca, an auburn haired beauty and Clarissa her stunning dark-haired sister were living the good life with a father who was one of the most respected bankers in town...or so they thought, and a mother who had dedicated her life to her family. Then it all fell...

A historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. This is book 2 in the Mountain Brides series. In 1888 there weren't many opportunities for a young girl of only eighteen to support herself in a place like Galveston Texas, unless she was willing to compromise her principles. That was why Jessica's guardian, an old man who had owed her late father a debt, proposes she become a mail-order bride. That and because Jessica wasn't easy to support. Flaherty, her guardian had spent a great deal more than what he'd owed her father maintaining her lifestyle. He was tired, and ready...

A historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. In 1864, the Civil War raged on, leaving in its wake hundreds of thousands of young men dead and similar numbers of young women widows or spinsters without a hope of finding a husband. At the same time the young men who had gone out west to make their fortunes in the gold mines were beginning to long for real towns and cozy homes. A few enterprising men decided that there was money to be made in uniting the two. The Journey: Part 2 is about one such man named Marshall, who set out on a quest to find young women with enough of...

A historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. In 1866, just after the war had ended, women were still being brought over from the east to act as brides for the wild men of the west. San Francisco was still young and restless and the police department, now headed by it's newly appointed chief, Matt Weston, was in turmoil trying to maintain some semblance of law and civility. Meanwhile, Chief Weston marries Eliza, the woman of his dreams, and as he struggles with his job, Eliza takes on the responsibility of hosting three new brides. Rose is a restless spirit who is...

A historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. This is book 3 in the Mountain Brides series. Clarissa Marsh suspected she was with child...she couldn't wait to tell her husband, Jeremiah, but before she got his hopes up or her own she wanted to talk to her sister and get a second opinion. On her way to see her sister, fate intervenes. Tragedy strikes, and the only person there who can save her is her husband's grown son who just so happens to be in love with Clarissa, and bitter towards his own father and her. Will Colton rise to the occasion? Meanwhile, there's another...