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This boxed set contains the first ten books in the USA Today Bestselling series Brides of Beckham.
Book 1: Mail Order Mayhem
Book 2: Mail Order Mama
Book 3: Mail Order Madness
Book 4: Mail Order Mix-up
Book 5: Mail Order Mistake
Book 6: Mail Order Maternity
Book 7: Mail Order Matchmaker
Book 8: Mail Order Motherhood
Book 9: Mail Order Matron
Book 10: Mail Order Meddler
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Sadie Beckham missed her best friend, Grace, terribly. Her friend had gone to a town in the west called Clover Creek as a mail-order bride, and though Sadie knew Grace was looking for a husband for her, it seemed it would never happen.
Stanley Gabriel had lost the love of his life, leaving him with three small children. His mother helped as much as she could, but it was difficult to be a full-time farmer and a part-time father. He needed someone who...
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After years of working in a textile mill in Massachusetts, Grace decides to follow the lead of her friends and go west as a mail-order bride. After posting an ad, she waits for an answer, hoping it will be the man of her dreams.
When David "Jack" Smith sees the ad, he immediately writes to the woman who posted it, explaining that he is a farmer and would love to be her husband.
Immediately Grace embarks on the journey of her lifetime to meet the...
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Roberta, Bride of Wisconsin is #30 in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.After a fire which burned the factory where she was manager to the ground, Roberta McDaniel feels responsible for all the women who lost their jobs. She contacts a matchmaker and suggests all of them become mail-order brides-answering an advertisement for a widower in Wisconsin herself. Bobbie worries that her independence will cause problems in her new...
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Elaine had spent over half of her life walking with a cane and being treated as if she were made of glass. When she sees no other option, she sneaks out and goes to see the owner of the mail order bride agency in Beckham. She picks out a man who seems perfect for her, and travels to Kansas City to be his bride.
Colin goes to lunch at the restaurant in town to consider sending off for a mail order bride when he notices a beautiful woman limp into...
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When Millie's friend, Berta, elopes instead of fulfilling her obligations to be a mail order bride, she decides to take her friend's place and be the best mail order bride a man has ever seen. Of course, she can't exactly cook, and she enjoys meddling in other people's lives under the guise of "helping them," but surely, her future husband won't mind that.
Connor waits excitedly for his Berta to get off the train in Idaho, knowing that she is the...
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Famous opera singer, L'Angelina seems to have it all. She travels from place to place with her manager making a living with her voice. So why is she so unsettled? When she receives a note threatening her family, she jumps at the first opportunity available to her. She becomes a substitute mail order bride using the name she was born with, Eliza Woods.
Calvin Simpson has finally reached the point where he feels he can financially support a family,...
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Merry Winters wants something more out of life, but she feels beholden to her sister and brother-in-law, who have given her a home for the past four years. When a fire takes their lives, and leads her with their two young children to raise, she agrees to move to Montana to be a mail order bride as long as she can keep running her business.
Clyde Bellman has a plan for his life, and he's at the point where that plan calls for a wife. He sends a letter...
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Widowed midwife Patsy Lawrence spent too much time working and not enough with her young daughter. She felt like life was passing her by, and she knew Emily's childhood would be over before she realized it. So she took matters into her own hands and responded to a letter for a mail order bride, hoping for a better future for herself and her daughter.
Dr. Wesley Hardy was happy with his frontier existence, but he needed a wife to complete him, so...
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At thirty-four, Julia had given up on love. She had spent sixteen years nursing her sick mother, and now that her mother had passed on, she had no idea what to do with herself. She answered an advertisement to be a mail order bride, knowing she needed a new beginning.
Edward, a Kansas farmer, had been alone for six years since the death of his wife. He was sick of eating his own cooking, tired of living in filth, and more than anything, he was lonely....
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Meg O'Reilly wonders what ever made her want to be a teacher. The last four members of the demon horde are making her life miserable. When one of them slaps a copy of the Grooms' Gazette on her desk and tells her to go see their older sister so she can find her a groom, she reads through the paper and decides to do just that. Confident in her decision, she sends a letter to the man she chooses that very day.
The one thing Lars Borgen is not looking...
12) Mail Order Meals
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Gertrude Miller is well-known for her cooking, working for the diner there in Beckham, Massachusetts. When she spots an old crush eating with his new wife, she realizes that there is no chance she will ever be able to find love there in Beckham, where everyone remembers her as a member of the demon horde. After some serious thought, she goes to her sister Elizabeth and asks to be sent west as a mail order bride.
Douglas Charleston wants nothing more...
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Joy Miller loves life. She's happy to be able to spend time in the fields helping her father and is willing to work for anyone who needs some harvesting or planting done. But she feels like she's ready to marry and leave her demon horde existence behind. Thomas Worthington is a wealthy bank manager from Boston, who needs a wife to help him with clients and entertaining. He decides to contact a matchmaker to provide him with a mail-order bride. When...
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Bicycle-riding, bloomers-wearing Sydney Weatherby spends her life meeting gentlemen her mother approves of and being expected to marry one. None of the men her mother approves of are the least bit attractive to Sydney. Instead of battling her mother, she decides to change her destiny by visiting the town's matchmaker and agreeing to go west as a mail-order bride.Arriving in Fort Worth, she finds her plans were based on a misconception, and she must...
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Charlie Miller moved to Montana to help her friend Merry, and she did so happily, knowing there were more men than women in the west. She expected to meet someone and live happily ever after. When she's still alone three years later, she seriously contemplates writing to her sister Elizabeth, hoping she'll find a husband for her. A chance meeting with a stranger in a snowstorm changes all her plans.
Abel Burton takes a chance and heads to Mistletoe,...
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Gretchen Jensen has been in love with the same person for years. There are only two problems standing in the way of her marriage to him. She's pregnant, and he's dead. Most of the people in her town won't even talk to her, because the woman who was to be her mother-in-law has shunned her. Unable to see beyond her love for him, she refuses to marry the mail order groom who has traveled across the country to be her husband.
Reginald Lindon left town...
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When Anna arrives to meet her groom two weeks later than expected, she is more than a little surprised to find him already married. It's just her luck that she finds his new wife to be one of the sweetest women she's ever met. She reluctantly takes on the role of teacher for her new community, hoping that she will be able to make a place for herself there.
Jesse moves to Wiggieville, Texas, with his young son, hoping the two of them can leave his...
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Tired of being remembered only for her misdeeds as part of the demon horde, Ernestine Miller agrees to go out West to marry a banker in need of a wife. When she arrives in Montana, she discovers her groom has met with a fatal accident, and she has two choices. She can either find a way to support herself or go back home in shame. So she uses her former fiancé's home to start a boarding house, happy to have a use for her superior cooking skills.
When...
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Mabel Brida loves her job working as a cook for a family of means in Beckham, Massachusetts. What she doesn't love is her employer chasing her around town, trying to catch her alone so he can make improper advances.When Bernard Tandy spots her being backed into a corner by her employer, he takes her home to his wife, hoping Elizabeth can find her a better life out west as a mail-order bride.Walter Caldwell lost his wife just days after his third daughter...
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Mary Brown is forced to start over in Beckham, Massachusetts, when the love of her life is killed out West. She has no desire to be in the town where they grew up together and memories of him will flood through her at every turn. After five years as a cook, her employer suggests she become a mail order bride to a man who has no desire to find love…only a life partner. Unsure if she's making a mistake, she sends a letter in reply to the ad, unsure...
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