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She’s a wealthy debutante with the finest ancestry in Kentucky horseracing circles… He’s a member of New York’s Gilded Age elite, yet on the brink of financial ruin… Neither of them want an arranged marriage…or do they? Veronica Lyndon has a plan for her life, and it doesn't include being married off to a perfect stranger. After all, she is descended from generations of Kentucky horseracing royalty. She has no need for a marriage arranged solely to secure her place among the elite of Manhattan's Gilded Age society. But that's exactly what her parents expect of her. Determined to...

Born the youngest of four daughters and one son in a modest vicar's family, Miss Catherine Edwina Lyndon faces a life of hand-me-downs and broken dreams. Her parents spend every shilling on finding husbands for her older sisters, leaving her overlooked and resigned to a future without marriage or family. Despite a passion for education reform, she is denied entry to a leading university and escapes to Northampton as a companion to an aristocratic family. As various catalysts and antagonists spring onto the scene, including a mystery unfolding as items begin to disappear during a country ...

Can summer love survive amid mystery and mayhem? When Abigail Greenwood and her cousins settle in for their annual summer retreat at the stunning and impressive Sagamore Resort in the Adirondacks, all she wants is to spend as much time as possible plunking out stories on her typewriter. But when her cousins insist she join them in the tradition of choosing a beau to adore from a distance during their stay, she reluctantly plays along, setting her sights on a mysteriously quiet and aloof guest. What started as harmless fun soon changes as Abby finds herself captivated by debonair—and ...

Wade Taylor is the perfect blend of American renegade-pioneer and English aristocracy. He stands for God, the Bible, freedom, and guns. If anyone can bring Owens to justice, he can! The problem is, Miss Jenna is bait and doesn't even realize it. It's going to take round the clock coverage to protect her. Twelve schools in Jefferson County under his jurisdiction, but the school house in rural county district four...

Milly Crenshaw does it again when she succeeds at finding a groom for a destitute social butterfly from Fairfax, Virginia. She sends Miss Garner west to marry an Oregon farmer, Sterling Adams, widowed with four children who desperately need a mother while he tries to prove up his claim. Charity Garner, suffering from the shock of an accident leaving her injured and bereft of her parents and their wealth, has two choices. She can rely upon distant relations she's never met before by relocating to England, or follow the tug on her heart to become a missionary wife to Sterling and a mother to ...

Ramona Middleton has dreamed her whole life of growing up to become married one day with a husband, children, and a family of her own, but now she must become a teacher out west to support herself after the unexpected passing of her parents. When Corinthia McPherson, on her way to marry a man she's never met, panics and offers to trade places with her, Ramona jumps at the chance. Jasper Shephard, a gentleman farmer from England, ordered an elegant, refined mail-order bride to help raise his children and stand at his side as the mayor of a small Missouri town after establishing his wheat and...

Isabel Merriweather was born to become a southern belle from a rice plantation in South Carolina. When her parents become deceased during the Civil War, Aunt Margaret from Atlanta takes her under her wing. With a knack for trouble and no fiancé in sight, Isabel has grown past the customary marrying age and her aunt has become weary of finding her niece a suitable match. Desperate, Aunt Margaret ships Belle to a northern matchmaker in the hopes an unorthodox approach will succeed. When another mail-order bride in want of a husband and two completely different marriage prospects greet Isabel...

Bryn is determined to marry Geneva Rosemont, the beautiful vicar's daughter in his Welsh parish, despite being nearly engaged to the sensible Elizabeth Berkley. He is young, handsome, fickle where women are concerned, and the arrogant heir to the Palmer shipping fortune. Geneva's parents also think she should settle into an idyllic marriage with Bryn, but the precocious Miss Rosemont is passionate about her teaching work at the Cardiff orphan mission and writing. She knows Bryn is not the man God has ordained for her. She is far too strong and independent for the likes of Bryn Palmer, even ...

A faith-inspired, "Jane Austen-ish," mail-order bride story... 1875, England Miss Chelsea Careen Stanton, the heiress of Cherrywood Manor and orphaned daughter of a country squire, finds herself in peril. The ward of reckless relations, they have placed her inheritance in jeopardy. She has few alternatives. Marry Lord Thornbridge, a philandering rake of the worst kind, or take her chances as a mail-order bride to Braydon McLane, an Irish-American clergyman, without a Pemberley. Will her ability to see life through rose-colored glasses and romantic Jane Austen novels help her rise to the ...

Anastasia isn’t the least bit interested in a romance with Jed when her sister’s job placement agency sends her to work as a temp at The Sweetwater Ranch bakery. She finally has a chance to make one of her dreams come true by doing a great job managing the bakery. Maybe she’ll even get to ride the horses on the Wyoming ranch in her leisure time, or catch a glimpse of the wild horses she longs to own. Jed’s laid back, fun-loving personality hasn’t helped him find a woman to settle down with, but he’s perfectly content working as a wrangler at The Sweetwater. However, he can’t ...

Joshua Stanton, a Virginia widower, and his tomboy daughter, Ambrosia, have settled in Belle, Wyoming at Silver Aspen, his family’s ranch after his wife’s passing. Soon after, he inherits Silver Aspen and the title his pa held, ‘The Cattle King.’ As one of the largest cattle barons in the area, running the ranch is a tremendous job for a Virginia crop farmer who spent most of his life studying philosophy, theology, and agriculture. When Ambrosia is expelled from school in the middle of her term, the weight of the world falls on his shoulders. Lady Mia has inherited her mother’s ...

According to my research, the word "ARISE" is found in the King James Version of the Bible approximately 158 times. Jesus frequently used the word "ARISE" throughout His ministry. This devotional/Bible study will examine many of those passages from the words of Jesus... and more. There have been times in my life when I felt the Lord stir me through His word to "ARISE," to be doing things for the Kingdom of God; even though I didn't always feel qualified, and many times felt downright discouraged. Nonetheless, the Lord gave me courage. One way the Holy Spirit encouraged me was in helping me ...

When C.E.O. Alexander Brantley hires a public relations specialist from Glitter, Ltd. to do media damage control for Seventh Floor, Inc. after a fashion disaster involving one of his company’s designs, he has no idea his former teen crush is at the helm of the reputable firm.

Thrust into the role of a debutante, Mia Delphine Morgan, a pre-school teacher from Kentucky, must sink or swim among Manhattan’s elite. She’s not trained or refined for New York, Paris, or London high society, but the good she can do with a sizeable inheritance from her estranged Aunt Sylvia, propels her toward keeping her feet firmly planted on the ground—even though poise and polish aren’t exactly her thing.

Miss Olivia Jane Kennedy is something of a child prodigy when she becomes a published author earlier than anyone could have expected. She also finds herself with a broken heart by the time she’s nineteen. When an opportunity arises to study abroad in England at The London Writing Academy on scholarship, she takes the chance, hoping a change of scenery will do her some good. “Ollie,” as her kid sister, Kendra, has nicknamed her, takes up residence in a Victorian terrace flat on a scenic street in Chelsea. Four years later, she's a successful writer, age twenty-three, and about to ...

After serving in the Civil War as part of a Minnesota infantry regiment, Zachary feels compelled to head further west to follow the call of God tugging on his heart. He has finally completed correspondence school and earned a certificate to become a preacher. He accepts a minister’s position in the small town of Blossom in Dakota Territory, but there’s a catch.

This is an Ebook Version collection of 3 Regency Romance Novels including "The Shoemaker," "The Redemption of Lady Georgiana," and "To Find a Duchess." One is a Christmas story; one is an adaptation on the Bible love story of Ruth; and though it may surprise some readers to discover England did have a few mail order brides, one is the story of a clergyman's daughter who responds to an advertisement for a wife though she does not know the farmer seeking a wife is a Duke. All three fictional stories have an English setting from the Regency Era. Readers who love Christian Historical Romance ...

Melody Ramsey has a daring and dangerous thirst for adventure in this inspirational Civil War romance. A governor’s daughter, she is in the unique position of meeting President Abraham Lincoln when news of the war breaks out. In fact, her father, the Governor of Minnesota, is the first to offer troops to Lincoln in response to his proclamation to put down the Confederate rebellion. She has no idea how she’ll accomplish the mission in her heart, but she has a courageous if not overly zealous idea to become a spy before she settles down into becoming a teacher. Since she doesn’t see how...

A Modern Day "Ruth" Love Story of Regency Proportions The widowed Earl of Essex, betrothed to Lady Juliana ... is hopelessly distracted by the rescue missions for the governess of his three children. When Lady Margaret Colton and daughter-in-law, Lady Georgiana Colton, flee the revolution of Napoleonic France to live with distant relations, Georgiana is forced to accept the position of governess for the widowed Earl's three children. The Earl, however, only has eyes for his intended, Lady Juliana; though there is a certain something, a "je ne sais quoi..." regarding his new governess. Will ...

Wade Beauregard Jefferson, a handsome, rugged man from Cheyenne, has obtained recent employment from newlywed Joshua and Mia Stanton at Silver Aspen Ranch. He is faced with the formidable task of fetching Mia’s cousin, Lady Hazel Jane Brayden, from the stage when it arrives in Belle during an early January blizzard. However, her reputation precedes her. After Hazel has caused an abundance of mayhem at Saxheim Manor, her father packs Hazel off to her cousin in Wyoming. After all, he’s heard Mia worked wonders with her former pupil, Ambrosia. At twenty and one years of age, Hazel has ...