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When her mother dies, 19-year-old Dana finds herself alone with her stepfather, a man who despises her. Desperate to find a better life for herself, she corresponds with widower, Caleb, who seeks only a mother for his son. A son who hasn't spoken a word since his mother's death. Dana lost her hearing at a young age and vows to help his son find his voice again. She falls in love with the boy, happy to be a wife to Caleb in name only. But when her feelings for Caleb begin to grow, she tries desperately to stop them. Can Caleb open his heart to Dana before he loses her?

What happens to a man when he counts his own worth as loss? What happens to a woman when unseen wounds destroy her ability to speak? They invest in one another. From that moment on, both Jake and Suzannah’s inner pain heals bit by bit. By gentle degrees, their true natures entwine. They even dare to dream of a future together - until Jake’s past twists back into their lives and threatens to steal him away.

Estella is left destitute after her husband’s passing, and accepts a proposal from a man in New Mexico. Excited for a stable home and someone to love her, her world shatters when she learns who the man is who proposed to her. Noah has been hunting the Jeremy gang for months, and unexpectedly crosses paths with Estella.

Retired horseman, Clay Westin, has suffered terrible loss and turned his back on God. His only connection to life is his son's horse, Jubilee who has been lost on Clay's vast drought-stricken ranch for the past year. Can Clay find Jube before it's too late? Will Clay find peace in the process?

Have you ever wondered what happened to those Cartwright men of the Ponderosa plains? Did they fall in love? Marry? This book explores the possible connection between the Cartwrights of today and those four men of the past as Cartwright descendants try to solve a family mystery and in the process, introduce us to the women the four Cartwright men meet and fall in love with. These women seem perfect for Ben, Adam, Hoss, and Joe - but will avalanches, cattle rustlers, criminals, and wily women keep them apart from true love?

Mandy Chambers is moving to Pepper Gulch, Utah, to become a mail-order bride to rancher Ernest Flinn. But when she arrives, everything changes. Now, her younger sister and Ernest are happily married and expecting their first child. The more Mandy sees the happiness of her sister, the more she wants that same happiness for herself. But Pepper Gulch isn’t a big town, and Mandy despairs of finding someone special.

The outlaw Kit Mann, a drunken deserter, thief, and murderer-on-the-run, unexpectedly finds the blessings of salvation and enters a richly rewarding new life as a preacher on the frontier. And yet, intent on burying his past, he fails to heed the admonition to confess his sins to the church he leads. But when his old gang rides into town and the guns come out, Mann has no choice but to turn and face his own past.

Schoolteacher Charlotte Brindle is relieved that her long journey from Boston to Wyldhaven is about to come to an end. And then the bullets start flying! As she sprawls on the floor of the coach and curls her arms around her head, she wonders whatever in the world possessed her to give up the civility of a Boston school for the promise of adventure on the wild frontier?!

When the notorious Linch Gang strikes in Rough Creek, Missouri, deputy sheriff Jordan Tredwell finds himself with a big responsibility on his hands - find the Linch Gang and bring them to justice, all while stepping into the shoes of the former sheriff. Jordan pours himself into the task, putting everything else on hold - which worries his mother to no end. Afraid that Jordan will make himself sick - or put himself in great danger, she follows the lead of another local family and writes for a Mail Order Bride...on her son’s behalf.

Justine Russell has lost the man she loves. Now her father wants her to marry the son of his old friend in Missouri. How can Justine leave her native Boston for the Wild West? How can she marry a man she’s never met? Riley McPherson’s father informs him he is to marry his friend’s daughter, Justine. Unwilling to follow his father’s wishes, Riley rebels. How can he marry a stranger? Why should he? Left at the altar by the only woman he’s ever loved, Riley will not trust his heart to another.

Ethan Greene wants no part of the rodeo circuit he left six years ago. Instead, he's spent the last year reinventing himself, trying to become a man he can be proud of. But when feisty, champion barrel racer, Brynn Bowman, shows up at Three Rivers Ranch to recruit him to be the second part of a two-man roping team, Ethan finds himself saying yes - but only for one year, just to help out a friend.

Commander Brett Murphy left his family’s construction firm in Oklahoma City for a life of hard work at Three Rivers Ranch. Alone, without a wife and kids, Brett needs the camaraderie he enjoyed while serving overseas with his Army buddies, Squire Ackerman and Peter Marshall. What Brett doesn’t need is the reappearance of his ex-wife. They strike a deal: She’ll stay at Three Rivers for the summer so Brett can have the opportunity to get to know his son. How far will they have to go, and how much will they have to forgive in order to become a family?

When her betrothed leaves her for another woman, Celina Murray is distraught. Certain that she will never love again, she agrees to a marriage of convenience, arranging to care for two small children of a bachelor guardian. But love is not an option. Carrying his own load of tragedy and rejection, Sheriff Troy Faraday is just as sure that he can never again trust - or love - a woman.

Sally Johnson is sick of her life - sick of the upper class, sick of the social gatherings, sick of the dirty, bustling city, and truly sick of never feeling as though she is good enough. When the odious son of a failing steel baron announces they are engaged in order to marry into her rich family, Sally is truly fed up. Taking her life in her hands, she runs away and decides to become a mail-order bride.

As Caleb struggles through some inner battles, he secretly starts a correspondence with a widow and her daughter. Their unabashed faith in God convicts him and increases his inner struggles, but he keeps writing anyway. Unable to find a steady job, Maggie places an advertisement to become a mail-order bride. Her daughter, Rachel, is her motivation and encouragement, but if Maggie doesn’t find a job or husband soon, Rachel might not survive through the next year.

After Abby's fiancé leaves her, she longs to escape Philadelphia. Preacher Harris seems like a perfect man for her. The preacher has been raising an abandoned baby left on the church's doorstep, and Harris seeks a woman to help him with the child. As Abby arrives in Texas, she knows that Harris wants only a marriage of convenience. As she grows to love the abandoned baby, her feelings for Harris overwhelm her. With Christmas approaching, Abby has a choice to make, stay married to a man who will never love her or leave Harris and the baby behind.

Emma is excited for a fresh start in Colorado and marriage to rancher Joseph. Emma's plans for a happy Christmas are shattered when Joseph wants nothing to do with her, and Emma is forced to leave the ranch with nowhere to go. When Joseph's mother takes her in as Christmas fast approaches, an irate Joseph plans to spend the holiday alone. But there's something about Emma that Joseph can't forget no matter how hard he tries. Will Joseph have a change of heart and make Emma his Christmas bride? Will Emma be able to forgive Joseph and heal her broken heart?

Carla has known nothing but the orphanage for all her life. Derided because of the birthmark that covers half of her face, her only friend is Sally. When Sally dies in childbirth, she begs Carla to save her baby’s life. With Baby Marsha wrapped in her arms, Carla runs for their lives, making the long walk to the next town, Carrick Plains. There she finds comfort and help in a way she never expected. Soon she begins to relax, but Sheriff Bud Jeffries is curious about this newcomer.

After a devastating rejection years ago, Bailey Evans has given up on finding love. Instead, he pours his energy into running the frontier town’s Hardware and Tinware Shop with his best friend, Jacob. But when Jacob is brutally killed in a robbery, his final whispered words seem to gesture toward a future Bailey didn’t think possible....Kathryn Sandridge has been discriminated against her whole life. Despite growing up in a loving home in Boston, she worries that her physical appearance - one brown and one blue eye - is too off-putting to attract a suitor.

It’s 1899 and socialite Melissa Forrester has traveled from her home in Norfolk, Virginia, to Guthrie, Oklahoma. She’s there to visit her sister’s grave and learn why Augusta shot herself. Now alone in the world, Melissa is angry at God and at Tyler Buchanan, the man she holds responsible for her sister’s death. Impulsively accepting employment at the Canary Cage, the saloon where her runaway sister had worked as a singer named “Roxie,” Melissa adopts an assumed name herself, and, for a time, lives a saloon girl’s life as “Lily.”