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Lucky Penny

Catherine Anderson · 623 pages

When Colorado marshal David Paxton gets a letter from a stranger claiming to be his wife and pleading with him to come for her and his daughter, he dutifully responds and finds himself with a ready made family.

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Silver Lining

Maggie Osborne · 348 pages

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Texas Bride

Joan Johnston · 369 pages

Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now it's her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of a Chicago orphanage. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: her husband-to-be, Jake Creed, knows nothing about the brothers she's bringing along.

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Texas Glory

Lorraine Heath · 379 pages

She was given to a stranger... Cordelia McQueen was a virtual prisoner in her father's house. Until everything changed when she was shamelessly traded in a battle for land and water rights, and thrust into an unfamiliar world as the bride of Dallas Leigh. He belonged to the land... Dallas had given his life to the land. Now he aimed to put West Texas on the map. But as he gazed into the e

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The Bride Wore Spurs

Sharon Ihle · 257 pages

A RECKLESS LASS, A RELUCTANT LOVER Kathleen Lacey O'Carroll knew she faced an uncertain future when she arrived in Wyoming as a mail-order bride – especially when she learned that the man she was to marry hadn't actually ordered her. How could John Winterhawke, a fiercely independent and unsettlingly handsome half-Indian, possibly make room in his heart and in his life for her? As far as Hawke w

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Capital Bride

Cynthia Woolf · 302 pages

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Tender Is the Storm

Johanna Lindsey · 331 pages

Headstrong heiress Sharisse Hammond wants no part of the New York society marriage that has been arranged for her. So she heads west across a vast and dangerous land -- with no intention of honoring her agreement to become the mail-order bride of a rugged Arizona rancher. But Lucas Holt needs a wife -- any wife -- if his plan to destroy his most hated enemy is to succeed. And this gullible Eastern

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Twin of Ice

Jude Deveraux · 411 pages

**Twin of Ice** Montgomery/Taggert (Publication order) #6; (Chandler Twins, #1) Happily betrothed to Dr. Lee Westfield, Houston is every bit the good girl she was raised to be. So when faced with Kane Taggert's brash marriage proposal, Houston is outwardly shocked. But beneath her gracious demeanor lies a woman of hidden longings -- and her defenses begin to melt the second this rugged stranger

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Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold

Ellen O'Connell · 406 pages

Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold is a story of romance and family conflicts set in Colorado in 1885. Anne Wells has embarrassed her rigidly proper family since she was a child with occasional but grievous lapses from ladylike behaviour. They blame those lapses for the disgraceful fact that she is a spinster at 28. Cord Bennett, the son of his father's second marriage to a Cheyenne woman, is more

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Prince Charming

Julie Garwood · 533 pages

Only her beloved grandmother, Lady Esther, knew how devastated Taylor Stapleton had been when her fiance eloped with Taylor's cousin. Now dear Esther -- one of London's richest and most formidable matriarchs -- lies dying. But first she was going to help Taylor pull off the scam of the season. To escape becoming a ward of her unscrupulous uncle, Taylor would wed Lucas Ross, a rugged American r

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Julia

Ashley Merrick · 170 pages

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Short-Straw Bride

Karen Witemeyer

No one steps on Archer land. Not if they value their life. But when Meredith Hayes overhears a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off their ranch, a twelve-year-old debt compels her to take the risk. Fourteen years of constant vigilance hardens a man. Yet when Travis Archer confronts a female trespasser with the same vivid blue eyes as the courageous young girl he once aided, he can't brin

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Redeeming Love

Francine Rivers · 473 pages

California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s

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A Mail Order Bride for Charlie

Carre White · 172 pages

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In Want of a Wife

Jo Goodman · 378 pages

Jane Middlebourne responds to an ad for a mail-order bride from Bitter Springs, Wyoming, but when she arrives she faces a battle to prove to her new husband, Morgan Longstreet, that she can help him manage his ranch.

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Keegan's Bride

Kathleen Ball · 178 pages

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Texas Mail Order Bride

Linda Broday · 416 pages

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Promises Linger

Sarah McCarty · 349 pages

Book One of the Award Winning PROMISE Series. 1868 Wyoming Territory Elizabeth Coyote will do anything, anything at all, to save the ranch she loves, including marrying Asa MacIntyre, a broad shouldered, lean hipped silver eyed gunslinger with a ruthless reputation for getting the job done. Asa dreams of a place of his own, a wife, and the respect that comes with both. Marrying Elizabeth

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A Lawman's Christmas

Linda Lael Miller · 368 pages

The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman, and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband or income, until Clay McKettrick comes to town. When they say "I do" to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman's wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife.

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No One's Bride

Nerys Leigh · 300 pages

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A Lady of the West

Linda Howard · 483 pages

N THE SAVAGE NEW MEXICO TERRITORY, LOVE COULD REDEEM... OR DESTROY Victoria Waverly was a noble daughter of the war-ruined South, sold in marriage to a ruthless Western rancher. Only honor and pride could help her endure her painful role as wife in name alone. Yet honor. could not quench Victoria's forbidden desire for the hired gunman Jake Roper. His narrow gaze was hard as ice, but the tender

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Aundy

Shanna Hatfield · 380 pages

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The Duke's Accidental Wife

Erica Ridley · 200 pages

Miss Katherine Ross is a wealthy, eccentric socialite who knows precisely what she wants: No husband. No children. No candlelit tête-à-tête with the insufferably emotionless Duke of Ravenwood. She’s convinced his heart is ice — until she touches that chiseled chest for herself. One lapse in judgment is all it takes to turn both their lives topsy-turvy… The Duke of Ravenwood isn’t cold and haugh

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Mail Order Bride: Katie

Vivi Holt · 178 pages

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