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Listen to the fictionalized account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie from 1868 to 1888. This historical fiction is based on the actual Swedish woman who homesteaded the author's childhood home and is the first of the four book Butter in the Well series.

Popular Kansas author Linda K. Hubalek continues the story of a Swedish immigrant family featured in the Butter in the Well series with the second book Prairie Bloomin'. Prairie Bloomin' features the 1889 to 1900 diary of daughter Alma Swenson, as she grows up on the farm her parents homesteaded. Even though born on the same farm in two different centuries, the main character of Prairie Bloomin', Alma Swenson Runneberg, and the author shared uncanny similarities while growing up in the Smoky Valley region of central Kansas.

This box collection contains books one through four in the Mismatched Mail-Order Brides Series. These historical western romances are set in 1892. The Peashooter Society's Plan, Book 1 The older members of the Clear Creek church women’s group, informally known as the Peashooter Society, decide to help the unattached women in town obtain husbands. The group’s solution, with the backing of a wealthy financier in town, is to advertise that they will offer jobs and housing to the prospective grooms they pick for the unsuspecting women. The young women are appalled at the idea when they ...

Books ten through twelve in the Grooms with Honor Series. Sweet historical western romances set in the 1800s. Jasper's Wish Can the couple weather the embarrassment of Julip’s past, or will the truth tear their marriage apart? Tully's Faith Tully and Violet share a past and wish they could share a future. Kiowa's Oath An accident reveals the secret marriage of a half-breed blacksmith and a prominent dressmaker. Will this sitaution make them stronger or pull them apart? Read all these romance novels by award-winning author, Linda Hubalek. Grooms with Honor Series 1. Angus’ Trust (...

First three books in the Grooms with Honor Series. Sweet historical western romances set in the 1880s. Angus' Trust Fate puts two childhood friends on the same train but a robbery sets them on journey they hadn’t planned on. Fergus' Honor He's at the right place at the right time to save a woman from falling to her death...but she hadn't planned to survive. Can he convince her life is worth living, with him? Gabe's Pledge Help and hindrance by family and friends makes this a comical trip down the church aisle for this couple. Grooms with Honor Series 1. Angus’ Trust (Angus and Daisy) 2....

Three sweet historical romances set in 1873. Rania Ropes a Rancher, Book 1 Rania Hamner and her family emigrated from Sweden to work on a Texas ranch, working cattle and herding them up the Chisholm Trail. Something in her life on the trail caused her to doubt her worth, and her ability to trust a man enough to become his wife. Once the family buys a homestead in Kansas, she meets a rancher who begins to make her believe she can trust and fall in love after all. Rancher Jacob Wilerson noticed Rania last year when she rode drag behind a herd of longhorns—right down Main Street of Ellsworth...

Three sweet historical romances set in 1873. Darcie Desires a Drover, Book 7 Darcie Robbins fled St. Louis to protect her two children from their bad father. Now divorced, she’s temporarily working on the Bar E Ranch in central Kansas. She needs a permanent job—or a trustworthy husband—to help provide for her family. Reuben Shepard went home to his family in New York after the Civil War, to find his wife had declared him dead—so she could wed another. In shock, Reuben didn’t contest her claim and wandered south, spending years as a cattle drover on western trails until settling ...

Books four through six in the Grooms with Honor Series. Sweet historical western romances set in the 1800s. Mack's Care More than sawdust could ignite in the sparks which fly between a carpenter and the new lady doctor. Cullen's Love Will the couple grow to love each other after they are thrown together by circumstances neither of them planned for? Seth's Promise When rancher Seth Reagan left Kansas for a livestock show in Chicago, he never dreamed he’d be returning a week later with seven horses, extra carpet bags, and a wife Read all these romance novels by award-winning author, Linda ...

This box collection contains books five through eight in the Mismatched Mail-Order Brides Series. These historical western romances are set in 1892. Maisie Swaps her Groom, Book 5 The Peashooter Society (the nickname for the older women in town) decides Maisie needs a husband, even though Maisie is perfectly content to sew dresses and gossip with girlfriends. But Squires Miller, the new carpenter in town, captures her attention when she finds him sleeping on her stair landing. Maggie Shifts her Man, Book 6 Maggie agrees to marry Tobin Billings in a 30-second marriage to adopt five-year-old ...

This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson as she ponders the decision about leaving her homeland, how they will travel to America, and worries about her family’s future in a new country.

The inevitable happens- time moves on and we grow older. Instead of our own little children surrounding us, grandchildren take their place. Each new generation lives in a new age of technology, not realizing the changes the generations before theirs has seen- and improved for them.

Books seven through nine in the Grooms with Honor Series. Sweet historical western romances set in the 1800s. Adolph's Choice Enjoy this love story of trouble, sparks, and attraction when a Swedish immigrant man marries an Appalachian mountain woman. Nolan's Vow A soldier comes to the aid of a woman during the snowstorm...and decides to bring her home. But not everyone is happy with his decision. Elof's Mission Elof falls in love with the widow and child, but he needs a job and home before he can offer them anything. Read all these romance novels by award-winning author, Linda Hubalek. ...

Can you imagine being isolated in the middle of treeless grassland with only a dirt roof over your head? Having to feed your children with whatever wild plants or animals you could find living on the prairie? Sweating to plow the sod, plant the seed, cultivate the crop-only to lose it all by a hailstorm right before you harvest it? This second book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie.

In this first book of the Trail of Thread series, in the form of letters she wrote on the journey, Deborah Pieratt describes the scenery, the everyday events on the trail, and the task of taking care of her family. Stories of humor and despair, along with her ongoing remarks about camping, cooking, and quilting, make you feel as if you pulled up stakes and are traveling with the Pieratts, too.

Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy (a relative of the author) in this second book of the Trail of Thread series, as she travels with eight of her thirteen children from Ohio to the Territory of Kansas in 1855. Thousands of American headed west in the decade before the Civil War, but those who settled in Kansas suffered through frequent clashes between pro-slavery and free-state fractions that gripped the territory.

Lilly Lind was forced to emigrate from Sweden two years ago, due to circumstances beyond her control. She finds a job as a garment maker in the Brown Textile Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, finally feeling as though she is settling in her new country. Then a suspicious fire burns the mill, making Lilly seek another way to survive. She answers a mail-order bride ad in the Grooms' Gazette and sets off for Chicago, believing she will be a business owner's wife.

Feel the uncertainty, doubt, and danger faced by the pioneer women of Kansas as they defend their homes and pray for their men during the Civil War. We think the Civil War took place in the South, but the Plains States endured their share of battles and tragedy. Not only did Kansas and Missouri experience a resurgence in the terrorist raids that had plagued them in the years before the war, but the Confederate Army tried several times to sweep across the Great Plains and capture the West.

Enjoy this love story of trouble, sparks, and attraction when a Swedish immigrant man marries an Appalachian mountain woman. Adolph Bjorklund... he's always at Reagan's parsonage for Sunday dinner when there's a new, single woman in town. But they never turn out to be someone he can court. Well, Kaitlyn Reagan decides to end Adolph's free Sunday dinners by helping him order a mail-order bride. Poppy Beavers places an advertisement wanting to be a mail-order bride to move away from her Tennessee family. She doesn’t have a photograph of herself, so she uses one of someone else…and of ...

Imagine surveying your farmstead on the last day of your life, reviewing the decades of joys, hardships, and changes that have taken place on the eighty acres you have called home for the past fifty years. Would you feel at peace or find remorse at the decisions that took place in your life? This third audiobook in the Planting Dreams series portrays Charlotta Johnson as she recalls the events that shaped her family's destiny.

Tying the Knot, the first historical fiction book in the Kansas Quilter series follows Kizzie Pieratt as she packs her family's belongings for her husband's job down in the Indian Territory. The move is meant to be temporary to make money to build a homestead back on their Kansas prairie land. As Kizzie receives trunks and quilts from her family to use on their trip, she learns about the significant moves previous generations have made for the betterment of their children, just like she is about to do.