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No Place for a Lady

Maggie Brendan

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Texas Destiny

Lorraine Heath · 384 pages

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High Country Bride

Linda Lael Miller · 435 pages

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The Bride Bargain

Kelly Eileen Hake · 317 pages

When dropped from the wagon train along the Platte River for not pulling their load, Clara Fields is determined to find a way to provide for her newly-widowed aunt. So she strikes a bargain with an aging storekeeper that in exchange for finding a bride for his son Clara can have his house to run a boardinghouse. But Dr. Saul Reed is not interested in getting tied down to Buttonwood in the middle o

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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 Bride for Keeps

Melissa Jagears · 400 pages

Everett Cline will never humiliate himself by seeking a mail-order bride. Not again. He's already been jilted by three mail-order brides and figures a wife just isn't in his future. However, a well-meaning neighbor hasn't given up on seeing him settled, so she goes behind his back to bring yet another woman to town for him. Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her fat

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City Girl

Lori Wick · 343 pages

City girl Reagan Sullivan may know her way around New York City, but nothing back East has prepared her for the land of armadillos and tall Texans. Chasing after adventure to blur an unhappy past, the highly independent Reagan has landed a job out West -- but quite clearly she is not out to land a husband. When gentle rancher Cash Rawlings comes into her life, Reagan finds herself intrigued with t

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Short Straw Bride

Dallas Schulze · 347 pages

ONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE TO MARRY The McLain brothers were fed up and tired --- tired of the hunger in their cowboy-sized stomachs, tired of dingy curtains and dirty dishes. Tired of worrying about who to leave the ranch to when they were gone. Luke could imagine the perfect wife --- biddable, tidy and willing --- and when he saw Eleanor Williams in church one Sunday, he thought she'd do just fin

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A Miracle of Hope

Ruth Reid · 352 pages

Pregnant Lindie Wyse accepts an arranged marriage with widowed father Josiah Plank in order to preserve her future, but what began as a practical arrangement soon turns into a budding romance.

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Jenna's Cowboy

Sharon Gillenwater

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A Bride for Donnigan

Janette Oke · 223 pages

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A Most Inconvenient Marriage

Regina Jennings · 324 pages

"Having fled a difficult home life, Civil War nurse Abigail Stuart feels like her only friend in the world is sweet but gravely wounded patient Jeremiah Calhoun. Fearing he won't survive, the Confederate soldier's last wish is that Abigail look after his sickly sister at home. Marry him, return to his horse farm, and it'll be hers. Left with few choices, Abigail takes him up on his offer and moves

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Seeking Persephone

Sarah M. Eden · 267 pages

When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she refuses, and then reconsiders. The obscene sum of money he's offering Persephone would save her family from ruin. With her characteristic optimism, she travels to the far reaches of Northumberland to wed a greatly feared stranger. Lodged deep in a thick forest infested with wild dogs, the Duke's castl

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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 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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The Soldier's E-Mail Order Bride

Cora Seton · 426 pages

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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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Peace Like a River

Leif Enger · 313 pages

"Raised on tales of cowboys and pirates, eleven-year-old Reuben Land has little doubt that miracles happen all around us, and that it's up to us to "make of it what we will." Reuben was born with no air in his lungs, and it was only when his father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that his lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy

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Faith

Lori Copeland · 291 pages

Prolific author Copeland kicks off another historical Western series with this pleasing tale of mail-order brides set in 1872. When their pastor father dies suddenly, leaving little money, three sisters realize that they need to take drastic action to survive. Each answers a newspaper ad soliciting Christian brides. Faith goes to Texas, where her intended, a well-to-do rancher named Nicholas S

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The Texan's Wager

Jodi Thomas · 384 pages

Jodi Thomas's new Texas trilogy follows three spunky women who get kicked off a wagon train-and agree to enter the local town's "Wife Lottery." In The Texan's Wager, Bailee Moore is "won" by a strong, silent farmer who could be the key to leaving her troubled past behind...

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Montana Rose

Mary Connealy

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Wyoming Wedding

Kirsten Osbourne · 145 pages

"Karlan Culpepper has worked his entire adult life, and most of his youth, to build up the ranch he knew he would someday inherit. When his grandfather dies, and the terms of his inheritance include he and his three brothers marrying within six months, and at least one of them having a baby on the way within the year, things get trickier. Contacting Dr. Lachele Simpson, a professional matchmaker,

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Land of My Heart

Tracie Peterson · 392 pages

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To Sir Phillip, With Love

Julia Quinn · 416 pages

My dear Miss Bridgerton, We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we have never formally met, I feel as if I know you. Forgive me if I am too bold, but I am writing to invite you to visit me. It is my hope that we might decide that we will suit, and you will consent to be my wife. -- Sir Phillip Crane Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and s

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