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Small-town girl Hazel Lynn Morgan has survived the dull farm life in Ohio by letting her imagination soar. Reading has been her savior, and yet, escaping the quiet life as a mail order bride could be just the excitement she’s looking for. But the Texan cattle rancher she’s intended for has a secret that could ruin everything and a friend who could be their making...or tear them apart forever.

Heather and Declan are finally going to tie the knot. But problems keep cropping up at the ranch and delaying the wedding. Heather is finally face-to-face with the man behind all these problems, but will she survive the encounter?

It's 1864, and civil war is devastating the country. When a speaker at the church shows sisters Eliza and Maggie a copy of Matrimonial News and tells them of the opportunities for women as brides in the west, Eliza sees a glimmer of hope in a world of widows and spinsters. But she’s skeptical. Maggie is excited, and with their mother enthusiastic about a brighter future for her daughters, the sisters set off to the west to start a new life.

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?

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?

Heather Parr, professional barrel racer and owner of the Double P Bar ranch, is competing at the Barrel Horse Racing finals. Disaster strikes while she's there, putting Heather in immediate danger. Someone doesn't want her competing this year, and will go to deadly lengths to make sure she's stopped. With the help of best friend Amy and high school crush, Declan, Heather sets out to find the person responsible. Over the weekend, sparks fly between Declan and Heather, but when the evidence points back to him, will it destroy their new relationship, or will his name be cleared?

The Journey, Part 2 is about a man named Marshall, who set out on a quest to find young women with enough of an adventurous spirit to travel thousands of miles, promising to marry a man they had only met through pictures and letters. Follow Eliza and Maggie as they embark with their friends on an exhausting and somewhat harrowing trip from New York to San Francisco and then journey through marriages that were destined to happen and contracts destined to be broken.

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 excited to go west and start a new life.

When their father’s death brings scandal and troubled times to their family, sisters Rebecca and Clarissa Standish must do their best to start over. In similar strife, young Texan Jessica is left to fend for herself as her guardian dies only to leave her with nothing. The three girls find themselves left with no better option than to begin again as mail-order brides and are, soon enough, tied to new families - that come with challenges of their own.

As the newly appointed deputy, Seth Gibbons came to Green River with one purpose—to save the town from corruption. But when he arrives and discovers that things aren’t exactly as he’d been led to believe, Seth soon finds that his life in Green River has taken a completely different turn. Surprisingly, he is able to build a good life for himself in the quiet town, surrounded by many good people keen to help him, including the local doctor, Thomas Walters. Seth realizes that the only thing still missing from his life is someone to share it with.

Elijah Rogers is content with his life as the trusted sheriff to the township of Green River. Although he is mostly content with his life as a bachelor, it takes seeing his close friend find happiness in marriage for Elijah to finally consider that there might be more to life than his work and faithful collie. All Lisette Rosemond wanted was to win a silly bet. Simply respond to the listing for a mail-order bride—what trouble could come from that? The last thing Lisette could have expected was that danger would find her even before she could step foot in the town of Green River.

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 toward his own father and her. Will Colton rise to the occasion?

In 1888, there weren’t many opportunities for a young girl of only 18 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 for someone else to take that burden on.

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 apart....

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.

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.