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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...
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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...
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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...
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Millicent has no way out. Her father is elderly and her brother has moved away...This leaves her alone and vulnerable to the advances of the town sheriff...An old, bald and disgusting man, he stalks her at every turn. Broke and destitute, Millicent sees one alternative out of the town. She decides to become a mail-order bride. She signs up with the agency and heads out west. But the sheriff is obsessed with her...will her future husband be enough...
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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...
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Victoria has given up hope on romantic love. She just wants security and comfort, anything beats living in poverty with her younger sister Diana...Two orphans now destitute after illness claimed both of their parents. Victoria decides she has no other choice. She will become a mail order bride. Her suitor, a man named Luke, courts her with letters of undying love. But Victoria isn't so willing to give up her heart. But she soon finds out that Luke...
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Miriam didn't know what she wanted in life. She put on a false front to Frederick, her second husband at age twenty-five. She realized that any woman would be happy to have him. He was tall. Handsome. But did he make her heart go pitter-patter? No. Maybe she would give it time. That is what the people at the Mail Order Bride agency told her. And the more she got to know him, the more she saw a brokeness in him. And then there was his daughter. A little...
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Helena answers a mail order bride advertisement thinking that her betrothed is the Sheriff of a Montana town. She's giddy about meeting her handsome new husband and his young son but is puzzled when he's not there to meet her. To add to the confusion, when she finally meets the sheriff he has no recollection of sending for a mail order bride. But if he didn't write those letters, who did?
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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....
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Lorraine wiped away another tear from her eye with her handkerchief. She almost hated to use the handkerchief. It was another reminder of everything she'd lost already. She looked down at the little blue piece of cloth with pink roses embroidered on the corner. Her mother had helped her embroider a dozen of them when she was only ten years old. Their pink petals looked faded and frayed now from years of use. Her mother had been gone for a whole six...
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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....
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Hannah has always wanted to follow in her father's footsteps in becoming a professor. But the men who are wooing her see nothing but her beauty and not her qualifications in the field of education. By chance, she discovers an advertisement for a mail order bride from a farmer out west. Thinking she can kill two birds with one stone, she answers the ad, believing that her new husband will support her as she seeks out employment opportunities in the...
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Nothing ever seemed to go right for Rex. He longed for a romantic love, something he had once read in a book but in his isolated world that didn't look like it would happen very soon, if ever...Almost a world apart, Faith felt the same way. Divorced and with a background that turned most men away, she had given up hope of being in a marriage where she would be loved and cherished. So she decided to answer an ad for a mail order bride. She sent off...
17) Ursula & David
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Ursula is tired of life on the east coast, living in poverty with her five sisters. She answers a mail order bride ad if only to get away from the desperation of her situation. She arrives and finds her new husband David to be quiet and distant. She's unsure of where she stands with him. He's half-Indian and has abandoned the indian side of his family. But when the Indian Tribe David once belonged to kidnaps Ursula, David is forced to make a decision....
18) She Found a Hero
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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...
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