Clara Beaufort’s journey from England to America is supposed to be an adventure, but it’s quickly becoming a nightmare. Alone with her infant nephew, Clara finds herself destitute and desperate. With no options left, she takes a leap of faith and answers a mail order bride ad, hoping to find a fresh start in the rugged Colorado mountains. The reality is far from her dreams of city lights. Adam Faulkner, the man she is supposed to marry, has no idea who she is. His father orchestrated this unconventional match without bothering to inform anyone. Perhaps worse, Adam is grappling with ...

A sad twist of fate leaves her blind and desperate for a new start. Emily Stewart, a widow and blind woman who has a six-year-old son, agrees to be a mail order bride, only to realize that her intended husband is killed in a fire just days before she arrives out West. Benjamin Hart is reeling after the death of his brother. And Benjamin has to wonder why his deceased brother never tells him about his bride from back East. Benjamin has long dreamed of leaving the dullness of farm life behind and seeking adventure. Especially now that the gold rush has begun, he is eager to sell and be done ...

The path of love may at times demand the sacrifice of truth. Caroline has lost everyone; everyone but a baby left in her care. Her abusive husband, Leland, is a danger to her and her adopted baby. The fastest and only way to escape is to head out west as a mail order bride. But… she is still a married woman. And her new husband-to-be must not know that. When Henry responds to her ad, Caroline dares to dream of a better life and flees her house with a baby in tow. As Caroline learns more about Henry the farmer, she forgets her old life and grows fond of him. Though she is aware that she ...

All her life, she has been seen as second-class. Harriet Orland is the daughter of a former house slave and the man who owned the plantation where she was born. All she has ever known is a life of slavery until the end of the war brought their freedom. But she quickly sees that their so-called freedom is only half won. Life in New York after the Civil War is brutal, with only the most demeaning of menial jobs available to them. After losing her mother to sickness, Harriet is left alone to make ends meet on the streets of New York. Her chance to break away from a life of drudgery is to make ...

The cruel hands of the white man has driven her from everything she knows. Kimana is fighting for her life in the wilderness, a lone Shoshoni woman without hope. When she is set upon by cowboys who mean to take her virtue, she stumbles onto the Nez Perce Reservation. Without family or friends, she is forced to stay on the reservation and give up her freedom. Peace is short-lived when a group of Nez Perce men try to attack her. Her savior shows up in the nick of time, but the cost of defending herself has landed her in a precarious situation. Either she will marry, or be sent to a prison in ...