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Margaret is desperate to escape her sadistic mother and step-brother so she sees a chance for a new life in the form of a mail-order bride catalog. She finds correspondence with a playboy turned ranch hand named Kenneth who must work and gain a wife in order to gain his inheritance. Margaret finds herself instantly attracted to Kenneth but worries that he sees her only as a business transaction. Will the two be able to develop the love that they both so desperately want behind their facades?

A collection of Mail Order Bride & Amish Romance headlined by "Fiona: The Mail Order Bride"...Wanted: A mail order bride- I am a rancher and I need a good wife, someone honest and kind, ready to work together to make a home with me and raise children in the west.The words jumped out at her from the page. Her first reaction was to forget the idea and just give Jeremy the paper, but the closer to home she got, the more she thought about the prospect. She knew that she would never love or trust a man ever again, but maybe the life on out west as a rancher's wife wouldn't be so bad. It had to be better than the factory.She knew how to take care of animals from her brief time on her uncle's farm and she certainly would prefer to spend time out in the open air with animals and plants rather than cooped up in the stuffy clothing factory for barely enough money to feed herself. She wasn't afraid of hard work.Fiona was distracted and distraught for the entire evening and barely heard her siblings' chatter about their day. Her older brother Carson had moved out and married almost two years before. The twins were already working in positions such as her own and her little brother, Jeremy had an apprenticeship in town at fifteen years of age. None of their positions paid too much but between all of them and the income her mother came up with cleaning, they managed."I'm thinking on becoming a mail order bride," she announced abruptly, drawing the eyes of everyone at the dinner table."What?" Her mother turned from the small stove that held their steaming dinner.

When Katie dies, Sarah's only goal is to get her four friends back to her Amish town to honor her death. Amazingly, she has stayed alone in the town while her friends went to the Englisch world as soon as they could. Her friends arrive but she soon realizes that the women are tangled in secrets that the Amish town has hidden. Why did all the women leave the town? Sarah works to find out the truth and begins to realize what matters most is faith, family and friendship.

Mary was born into poverty. But when the opportunity to sail to America to become a mail-order bride becomes available, she's the first one on the ship. She carries the hopes and dreams of both herself and her younger sister. On the ship, however, she meets Jack. A lonely widow, he has no intention of finding a new bride as he's still grieving over the loss of his beloved. His attraction to Mary is immediate and vice-versa. Can they both see that they are meant for each other or will they stick their divergent plans once they reach the shores of America?

The Bontrager family are stunned with the arrival of Benjamin, an older uncle that was shunned from the town years ago. But he comes back as a wise man with a deeper understanding of himself and others, and his insights prove of great value to his nephew Adam and his wife Faith, who are having problems in their relationship. But the real reason for his return is that he has heard of the widowhood of his former girlfriend, Beth. She has been widowed for over two years now and Benjamin has returned to make amends for his past and win the heart of Beth once and for all. But are they too old to begin a romance?

Emma has been diagnosed with leukemia and has only months to love. Her boyfriend William is heart broken but he vows to grant her last wish...but her one last wish goes against Amish customs...Emma had discovered guitar playing on her Rumspringa and fell in love with it...William learns of her passion, vowing to learn the instrument with her so they can perform one last ballad together.

Rex is a man that is used to people stabbing him in the back. He has built up a wall around himself but finds himself strangely drawn to a widow named Anna. He set the same hurt in her eyes that he sees in his own reflection...Anna doesn't trust Rex at all, but she finds herself needing his help when her former brother-in-law makes a move to take the ranch out from under her. A church-going home, she believes that everything happens for a reason. Will she realize that maybe Rex is following God's path straight to her door?

He's never forgiven himself for the accident that killed his mother. Can he find forgiveness and true love? Amish Abraham's heart aches for his estranged son, Josiah. After witnessing the grief his wife Lovina, suffered after the loss of her daughter, he knows there may never be a tomorrow, so, when he and Lovina travel to New York, Abrham's main goal is to build bridges with his son. Josiah has built a life for himself. It might not be the life his folks had planned for him, but it was his life, and he was happy with it. He didn't need his family. Hannah and her five-year old daughter were all he needed. But something was missing in his life, although he wouldn't admit it to anyone, let alone himself.Lovina encourages Abraham to trust God in this situation, just like he'd encouraged her when she was struggling with everything, but when she tumbles off a horse and breaks a leg, once again she's faced with a situation only God can fix. But can He heal the wounds of the heart as well as healing Lovina's physical ones?

Korina's eye found the dozen red roses that now sat awkwardly on her kitchen counter. The roses weren't a surprise. They were more of an annoyance. Terrence just would not give up. She knew it was Terrence because everyone else had given up ages ago. It just seemed as if Terrence couldn't take no for an answer. She might have thought him arrogant to assume that he could just convince her even though she had turned him down, but she knew him too well to think that.She felt bitter sweet when he came to talk to her or left her gifts. She had become more attached to Terrence and their relationship than she would have liked to admit. He seemed to always care for her, no matter how many times she'd turned him down. She also appreciated the fact that whenever he was in town, he took plenty of time from his busy schedule to talk with her and to pursue her. However, she knew that it would never work out...Or could it?

Rebecca had missed her step mother terribly. She had been as much of a mother to Rebecca as anyone could ask for and it left her devastated when the terrible disease took her away. Rebecca's life had become a maze of figuring out where the next meal would come from and setting a good example for her two younger sisters. She longed for adventure and mystery. And mystery is what she saw in her new neighbor, the dark cowboy named Drew. Drew definitely hadn't expected his neighbor to be such a beauty. But he didn't have time for a woman, and even if he did, his pretty neighbor was surely already spoken for. He hadn't missed seeing the young man who came for dinner at least once a week. An amused smile graced his lips. She wasn't the type of woman who would be able to accept him as a husband. His past, well there were things that a girl like her wouldn't be able to reckon with. Or could she?

Georgette has been abused her whole life and accepts a proposal to be a mail order bride out West. But she's pregnant and can only hope her new husband can be accepting of her and her baby. Nicholas is surprised that she's pregnant, but remains true to his cowboy code of honor and vows to raise the child as his own. But Georgette is skittish around him and Nicholas starts to slowly gain her trust. But as the two grow in their marriage, the vicious father of her baby arrives in town. Can Nicholas & Georgette strengthen their bonds and not let an unscrupulous man ruin what can be a wonderful life of romance and family?

Megan isn't the kind of girl that a man brings home to momma. She's sarcastic, ill-tempered and a bit of a party girl. But while on a drunken binge she winds up alone on a trail near an Amish town. She stumbles upon a package of love letters and a portrait of the most handsome man she's ever seen. Reading the letters, she becomes passionately intrigued about meeting the man who wrote the letters...So she ventures to the Amish town and hopes to replace the woman who broke his heart in those letters. But will he even give her the time of day?

Times are tough for Katie after her husband dies in a freak work accident. Her insurance payout isn't going to be enough to last and she begins to go hungry. With nothing left to lose, she decides to answer an ad for a mail order bride...The man's name is Thomas, a lonely farmer in Oklahoma. Their correspondence is fast but warm. After a few letters, he proposes and invites her to come to Oklahoma...Can Katie learn to move past her widowhood and embrace the love of another?

Rachel watched the trees rush by outside the train's window. She had been on the train for over three days and she was ready to arrive at her destination. She felt stiff and tired of sitting and wondered how much longer she could take the confined space of her seat.She stared down at her son. She still couldn't get over watching him sleep. His tiny perfect nose, mouth and eyes, made her heart melt with love. His long eyelashes rested on his pink cheeks and he looked like a tiny angel sleeping.There had been a time when she had blamed her innocent baby for the troubles in her life, for making it difficult, but not anymore. There had been many people at fault in what had happened, but her baby wasn't one of those people. She sighed and turned her attention out the window once more. It had been several years since she had visited her cousin Mary in Delaware and now, she was going to be living with her. She hoped that Mary wouldn't be as judgmental of her as some had at home. What had happened to her had happened to many other young girls, but for others it stayed hidden, in the shadows, where everyone wanted to keep it. For her, there had been no way to keep it hidden...But how will the people of this Amish community accept her?

Diane and Michael made a promise to each other when they were kids. If they were both single by the time they reached 30 then they would get married. But Michael left for the Wild West...They would continue to write each other but sometimes the letters never arrived. Michael learned from a mutual friend that Diane had gotten married, he blocked her from his mind...unwilling but accepting. He would make a fortune in the Gold Rush But then the finds out that Diane remains unmarried and that his brother got her confused with another woman. Shall he reach out again to his teenage love? Will she forgive him for not writing back all of these years?

Still grieving the loss of her hippie mother, Maggie leaves San Francisco for the Amish town of Lancaster. She goes to see the house she's inherited-from an individual she's never met. Maggie hopes to sell the home as she needs the money...and satisfy her own curiosity. She has her own suspicions, that somehow this piece of land belongs to someone on her birth father's side...A man she's never met and knew very little of. Rather than the quaint town she expected, she finds Lancaster to be a place of many shadows-big enough to hold a century of secrets, passions, and betrayals. It also comes with a handsome and enigmatic farmer who takes an instant liking to Maggie. Maggie rummages throughout the home and the town, learning as much about herself as the people in it. In doing so, she finds the Amish town may be just where she belongs.

Wendy has run away from her life in New York after she was attacked by a crazy man. Thinking he is still after her, she travels out to West to become a mail order bride. But once she arrives in Arizona she finds out that her presumed husband to be has run off with a woman from his church! But there is a divorcee named Jason who sent for a mail order bride to help care for his kids even though he really doesn't want to get married again. It was his wife that ran off with Wendy's presumed husband....When Wendy and Jason compare notes, it becomes only natural that the two are what each other needs...Can Wendy take the place of Jason's ex-wife and be the woman he always wanted?

Veronica longs for an epic romance, she sits around campfires regaling her girlfriends with romantic fairy tales that she's created in her own mind. Financially destitute, she decides to become a mail order bride and receives a proposal from Samuel, a wealthy banker on the west coast. Samuel is rich and polite...too polite...he doesn't seem to be type to protect Veronica from danger like the men she envisions in her fairy tale stories. But one night a group of marauders set upon their home, and she finds out what a hero her new husband really is...

A collection of Amish Romance The Amish were very strict when it came to making a choice of whether or not to join the church. If you left, you left for good and if you chose to stay in the church, you could never partake in the things that you had when you had been in Rumspringa. There was no second chance. If you made a choice to join the church and then went back on it, you would be shunned and no one in the community could ever speak to you again unless you repented publicly to the church and turned away from your sin. If you never joined the church you might be allowed to speak to your parents but you would never again be a true member of the community. Now John is excited about Lovina's return from her Rumspringa and eager to resume their romance but the time apart has changed her. They decide to give it another go but she has heard about his romancing of Mary and he has noticed a change in her. Will they be able to rekindle their young romance?

Over the last few years, Teresa has watched her friends find husbands and she often wondered why cupid's arrow never pointed her way. When she meets Quinn, she knows he's not going to be Mr. Right. Although he's funny, smart, handsome and loves kids, he's got one flaw - he is the boyfriend of Anna...And Teresa can't stand Anna. Anna often talks about leaving the Amish community and Teresa cannot bear the thought of Quinn losing himself in the English world. But Teresa begins to notice Quinn hanging around her bakery more and more...can he be changing his mind about Anna?

Life turned tragic for Tilda at a young age. Her parents die within weeks of one another after a pneumonia outbreak. Then she's sent to an orphanage where she's treated like slave labor. Once she's of age, she seeks an escape. The path of least resistance seems to be becoming a mail order bride. But her husband to be only wants her as labor. He's lonely and needs help around the ranch. Tilda starts to win him over, however, and he sees the need for change in himself. Will he become the type of man that will cherish Tilda and give her the happiness she has longed for her whole life?

Matthew has returned to his Amish hometown in Lancaster after eschewing the lifestyle for the Englisch world. He is now a divorced single dad and has given up on women. Ironically, Claire has returned to Lancaster herself. She, like Matthew, had left the town for the Englisch world. Now she is back, single and taking a teaching job. Matthew's son enrolls in her class and he finds himself immediately attracted to Claire even though he doesn't want to get involved. Claire finds Matthew attractive as well but he soon finds out that isn't her only secret. Can the two come back to their Amish town and find the love they both always wanted?

Joanna thought that inheriting her aunt's home in the Amish town would only be a case of signing papers and forgetting about it...Forgetting about the town just as her mother did years ago. But she finds out that the house still needs work and the bakery her aunt owned still employs numerous people.Joanna wants to just sell the assets and get out of the town...but she begins to experience growth in herself that she didn't anticipate. Surrounded by happiness, her former life beckons as her friends and ex-boyfriend beg for her to come back...but a budding romance with one of the bakery employees is pulling at her heart to stay. Will becoming Amish be the thing that Joanna has been needing all her life?

Faith wants nothing more than be in love. But she spends her days matchmaking for her Amish friends, including the disinterested Joanna. She's been widowed for almost six months and is nursing a newborn. But Faith is undaunted and finds what she thinks is a perfect fit for Joanna...and soon finds herself pining for the new stranger that has come to live in their Amish town. Will Faith realize that maybe Joanna isn't ready for a new relationship and that it is time for her to find a marriage partner of her own?

Harry had heard of young women back in the city who would have large weddings with all their friends and family, who would come to see them in their dresses and wish them well, and for a moment he wondered if Katie was expecting something like that. He hoped not, because they wouldn't even have the decent sized gathering of friends most people out west managed to find for their unions. No matter, if she did have a problem with the two mandatory witnesses provided by the justice of the peace, she could try her luck at dragging a few people from the town to join them. Harry almost laughed at the thought. That would be an amusing sight to see. He kept his mirth to himself and his eyes on the road. His new life was about to begin and he hoped he wasn't making a mistake.

Iris becomes a mail order bride if only to escape the clutches of a rich ugly man and the town that is pressuring her to get married. She travels across the country and has agreed to drop off a letter to a farmer who's own mail order bride has decided not to go through with their arrangement. Bored, she decides to read some of the correspondence between the two and becomes fascinated with the cowboy who is writing Eleanor, her fellow mail order bride. When she arrives on the prairie, she hands off the letters to the handsome cowboy and decides maybe he's the one for her. What will happen when Iris' husband-to-be comes calling? Will she stay with the man whose letters she fell in love with or will she go through her arrangement?

Tabitha set down the things she had purchased from the general store on her kitchen table. She pulled out a crisp sealed letter that she had picked up at the post office. The Matrimonial Times, who would have known that would be where she would meet her future husband?Tabitha had thought that her married days were over. Since her first husband, Alexander, had died, she had thought that the rest of her life she would live alone, with no one to call family. But the years had been rough on her and she had begun to feel lonelier than she'd even thought was possible...Until she answers Terrence's advertisement in the Matrimonial Times, the two exchange letter after letter and fall in love with each other's words. They finally meet and marry but en route to their new home in California they encounter a murderous Indian tribe that tries to hunt them down. Will they survive the attack and will their imagined love for one another become more real?

Teresa is an orphan who has the misfortune of being raised by her step-mother and step-sister. They hate her guts so her step-mother does herself a favor and places Teresa with a mail order bride agency. Teresa resists until she gets correspondence with a thirty-five year old farmer who wants a wife to help him on the farm...But on the way out west, she begins falling for the man taking her to meet her new husband. Throughout the long trip, the chemistry develops between the two. Will she keep the reason for her trip a secret as their romance blooms? And will she even go through with her mail order bride obligations?

Penny winced as she took the last step before throwing herself down into the porch chair. She hated walking. She hated doing anything, including living here on the ranch, but what other option did she have?Since her accident, her friends had abandoned her, and she was incapable of doing pretty much anything that she used to do. Everything was painful in some way or other, whether that be emotionally or physically. At this point, it all ran together, and Penny couldn't tell what-was-what. It was just as painful for her to watch her neighbor's daughter ride by on her horse as it was to walk across the porch. She shoved a crutch defiantly with her good foot. Life was fragile, something that many people didn't seem to realize. Penny hadn't realized it until hers had come to an end. One moment she had been riding through the prairie enjoying her day and the next her horse had been out of control and her life had come to a screeching halt. Doctors from several different towns had all had a chance to look at her foot, they had all tried different methods and different cures to fix it, but it had been to no avail. They had no luck at making it even slightly better. If she could only walk normally again, the pain wouldn't be such a burden. She couldn't even take herself to town to help with grocery buying anymore. Even if someone drove her, she couldn't bear the constant staring and whispering of everyone who saw her....Everyone except Rex, the new ranch hand.

Hyacinth desires something she never had as a child...a stable family...orphaned at a young age, she dreams away her days working as a waitress....until she finds a wealthy man who begins showering her with gifts. But she soon finds out he's doing the same thing with another woman and her heart is broken. Instead of drowning in her sorrows, she answers a mail order bride advertisement.