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After the war, Jewel Eberhardt has few choices for a beau, so she writes to a mail-order bride agency. From Pike’s Bluff, Colorado, Dirk Walker writes her back. Nervous and self-conscious, he sends Jewel the train fare, praying it will be a good match. When they meet, he fears she’s far above him - a fine woman too good for the likes of him. Yet, he marries her and takes her home to his ranch.

Serena Bailey is sold by her stepfather to a man in Texas to pay off a debt. Hating him for it, Serena is nevertheless forced to go to El Paso, Texas. Leaving her mother behind, she boards a train from New York, leaving her old life behind. Arriving in El Paso, she discovers that Hubert Bishop, her fiancé, is evil and cruel, and she is forced to fight him or die.

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.

Nancy Grant’s stepfather bets her hand in marriage during a poker game–and loses. Now she is supposed to marry the repugnant Carl Kingsford. Nancy has no choice but to flee. When she hears about a mail-order bride agency, she takes a leap of faith and applies. Now she is to marry a man she has never met—Jesse Cartwright, a rancher from Mine’s Place, Colorado. He is a stranger, but hopefully, with him she will find a home of her own and be able to celebrate a Merry Christmas.

Life isn’t easy for a Mail Order Bride…especially when the bride isn’t sure she wants to be one in the first place. But when Naomi Paxton is left a young widow, her friend Kate suggests she apply to a bridal agency along with her. At a loss for what else to do, Naomi agrees, and is matched up with a young store owner named Steven Wragley in Rough Creek, Missouri.

Melinda Post flees Pittsburgh, and heads west to marry Bart Brown, a young newspaper owner. Although Bart has advertised in the Matrimonial News, Melinda doesn’t answer his Mail Order Bride advert straight away. She wants to see for herself what kind of man Bart is, before she promises herself to him. So, she poses as a married woman, takes a job with Bart at his newspaper, and falls in love with him as they work together. But believing she’s married, Bart won’t give in to his feelings for her - and he begins writing another Mail Order Bride.

Nellie Williams is tired of the mundane, everyday sort of life she leads in Middleburg, Virginia. She longs for adventure, excitement, and true love—but she stands little chance of finding any of it if she stays put at home. When her cousin tells her about matrimonial agencies, her imagination takes flight at once. She can just see it now—being matched with a handsome cowboy in the Wild West, raising children, fighting off outlaws. But as she starts her journey toward the future, the fulfillment of her dreams is far more than she bargained for.

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.

Val Connor is familiar with heartbreak–too familiar. When his fiancée leaves him to become a Mail Order Bride, he swears off love for good. But Val is the only son to aging parents, and his father is determined to keep the Connor Ranch in the family name. When Val is pressed to marry or lose his inheritance completely, he reluctantly agrees to write for a Mail Order Bride of his own.

When Courtney Atwood’s husband dies in an accident, she does her best to mourn him as she ought. But they never really loved each other, and their marriage was simply one of convenience. Raising her five-year-old son on her own becomes a challenge for more than one reason--how can she explain that there should be more to life than simply accepting what you’re given?

When his young wife dies unexpectedly, Jed McBride has a tough time looking after his young daughter Josie. He decides to send for a mail order bride, hoping to find someone to help take care of his little girl. Across the country, Estelle Morrow is desperate to get away from the Slate Gang and their ruthless leader Amos. As a young girl, she joined her brother as a member of the gang, but now, she wants nothing more than to escape the life of crime.

Years after being left at the altar, Susan Spencer is facing another sad, cold, lonely Christmas in Boston. Unwilling to let her life continue like this, she accepts a match with a bachelor blacksmith in Miles Gulch, Wyoming. Her dreams are immediately shattered. Her fiancé is deathly ill and passes away shortly after her arrival. Alone in Miles Gulch, Susan befriends the folks in town, and when they assume she was already married to the blacksmith, she hasn’t the heart to set them straight. With a home, a job, and friends, Susan is determined to make this new life a better one.

When Halley Englewood’s godfather sells her hand in marriage to a despicable man, Halley secretly writes to a a mail-order bride agency. She receives an offer of marriage from Rawley Harrison, a rancher from Fielder’s Union, Arkansas - a man who is struggling to overcome his last fiancée’s betrayal. Sensing Rawley’s hesitation, Halley boards at the local guest house in Fielder’s Union.

Life in Rough Creek, Missouri, isn’t easy - especially if you’re the older brother of the most daring, troublemaking young man in town. Spencer Ludlow has spent his entire life trying to rein in his half-brother Markus, with only middling success. He’s willing enough to keep trying, but with the harvest season coming on, he’d like a little help. Besides, he’s got something more important to focus on - Tina Webber, a young lady from Boston, who has answered his advert for a Mail Order Bride.

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.

Charlotte "Lottie" Thomson feels trapped in the stifling confines of her life in Boston, where the only escape seems to be marriage. Desperate for freedom, she decides to become a Mail Order Bride and heads west for a fresh start. Impulsively, Lottie books passage on the first stagecoach to Texas. The journey takes a dangerous turn when notorious outlaw Luke "Hawk" Jackson and his gang ambush the stagecoach, robbing the passengers and killing a young woman named Emily. Lottie discovers that Emily was on her way to Clearwater, Texas, to marry a rancher named Nathan Caldwell.

Home again at Planter’s Point, Marcus Tait is a wounded man. He’s long since recovered from the horrific mine accident, but his recovery from the woman who deserted him is far from over. Buried in his work on his cousin’s ranch, he fears he’s destined to become a lonely, bitter old man, one who will never love again. Six months a widow, Jessica Archer finds every day a struggle. It isn’t just the loneliness and grief - it’s trying to raise her five-year-old son in her husband’s childhood home, with her cold, overbearing in-laws blaming her for Seth’s death.

Grace Montgomery is the oldest of five sisters…and the only one who isn’t married. At 24, she’s tired of pitying looks and being called a spinster. Desperate, she accepts the proposal of a much older man. As the date for the wedding draws near, she realizes she’s made a terrible mistake. She cannot marry this man. It would be like marrying her father. She flees and boards a train with no destination in mind.

Belle Herman is destined for better things. At least, that is what her mother always tells her. When the local matrimonial agency matches her with a wealthy rancher in Colorado, she sets her sights on the future and says a fond goodbye to her past.

Her husband is dead. She's pregnant. And her odious brother-in-law is forcing her hand in marriage. Betty Rochester can't abide the thought of Garrett having anything to do with her child. Or her. She has to escape and fast. Her only hope is to get as far away from Boston—and Garrett—as she can. But Betty has run out of options. Except one. Her sister became a mail-order bride, so why can't she? But Betty doesn't count on her mail-order husband rejecting her when he discovers she's with child. Now she's thousands of miles from home with a man who can barely look her in the face.