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The Western Mail Order Bride: Up from the South with Her Slave, is a very moving story about a rebellious and not very pleasant young woman sent out west as a mail order bride, and forced by her aunt to take along her sick slave so that the slave can breathe in some better air, and hopefully, get better.

When a detective searches for clues to help solve the case of a man who kills women with knives, she ends up utilizing an old book and the information in it, plus notes to her that the serial killer has written, and scriptures within the old book itself. It all comes to a head when she faces the killer, who only wants to end it all, either for himself or her, by playing a game of Russian Roulette.

Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way, she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child. After finally arriving at her cowboy's ranch, she falls for the handsome man but knows she must soon reveal her unfortunate circumstance.

When Garret the horse rancher's thoughts turn to love and marriage, he is at a loss as to where to find a potential bride. He admires the tough women around him, yet wants a woman from the city. By chance, he's at the telegraph office and gets a letter from a relative back east, wanting to visit, along with her husband and a young woman. They all meet and Garret grows to love the spirited young woman but a few weeks later she tells him something which may change his mind forever.

When Jessie, a woman traveling west to an already established mission, finds a wounded Native American man, despite much opposition, decides to nurse him back to health because she knows it's what God wants. Despite hatred amongst some members of the train for the young man, she triumphs and is able to get him back on his feet, even though another attack almost kills him again.

Our Wagon Train Heading For Greener Pastures Along The Oregon Trail: Finally Home In California, is the emotional ending to Anna and Mark's story, told after they have settled in California and staked their claim to a homestead. There are still many hurdles and tragedies to overcome, but under God's loving care they manage to survive them and along with their extended family, put forward and live their beliefs and Christian values to everyone in the thriving town they have helped to create, amidst the Gold Rush era in the West.

Mail Order Bride: Sarah's Damaged Cowboy, is the story of a rancher in Texas, Hawk, who decides to write away for a big city bride from New York. Instead, he gets a relationship which starts out with untruths and a strange lack of empathy, let alone love, between the couple. Added to the mix is Sarah's sister, Susan, and a young ranch hand who works for Hawk, Johnny.

Sofia Seeks Redemption Along The Oregon Trail, is a wonderful life-affirming story about a young woman with a tragic past who joins up with a doctor and heads out west along the Oregon Trail. She learns a lot and everyone on the wagon train appreciates her help and she grows close to a young man also on the train, but she cannot summon up the courage to tell him about her past. When some men from her former life show up, they almost kidnap her.

Mercy Found Along the Oregon Trail: A Child Leads the Way is about a young, single Amish woman traveling with her parents along the Oregon Trail. She is both adamant about remaining unmarried, becoming a schoolteacher, and having many children. The only problem with her plan is that Amish schoolteachers must remain single and have no children of their own. She is very conflicted but strong willed and with the help of an older woman friend on the train, a young man who loves her, and a very large surprise found along the trail, she may just be able to overcome the odds.

Emma's Place is at the End of the Oregon Trail, is a powerful story about how one, then two, then more women, escaped domestic abuse in the mid 1800s by taking the Oregon Trail, and what happened at the end of their journey.

A Raggedy Ann For Georgi Anna, is the story of one young woman and her family who decide to leave their Amish community in Pennsylvania and move to Illinois and to a much smaller farm. The entire family enjoys meeting others in the community but Naomi also makes friends with a non-Amish woman and her little daughter, who has bright golden curls.

A rancher finds a woman in the desert, unconscious and dusty and completely alone. He nurtures her back to health, and through reading the bible and church attendance and the love of the rancher, she finds a faith she didn't know she had. When he eventually asks her what she was doing in the desert, she is either unwilling or unable to answer him. As they find themselves growing closer together, she knows that she will eventually have to tell him, but she's afraid that he will think she's damaged goods and cast her aside.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Burning Bridges Behind Them, is the story of two sisters and two men. Bridges, the owner of a ranch and his hired hand Bane, have no idea what will happen when Bridges decides he needs a mail order bride from New York. He corresponds with a woman and falls in love with her but when Victoria arrives in town, the spark is simply not there. Instead, Victoria falls in love with another man and because Bridges is an honorable man, even though he does not love Victoria, he plans on making good on his promise to marry her.

Love Born On A Wagon Train Headed West, is an emotional wagon train love story full of drama and love and regret and optimism and just about every other human feeling you can imagine. A young woman, professionally trained cook to a small wagon train, is heading west and towards a new life and career. She hopes to push some of the bad experiences in her past out of her mind and replace them with better ones.

This is the story of a young woman who lost her parents at the start of their journey west along the Oregon Trail. Close to her as she travels along, is a group of young men and boys who had also lost their parents and had decided to make a new beginning in the west, raising cattle. While bathing at the river one day the woman hears, then sees, a baby crying and she retrieves a young Native American infant found propped up against a tree.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Well, Hello Dolly - Is it Really You? is a wry look at how one battered by life older woman, her illegitimate daughter, and a whole lot of 'baggage' end up with an old rancher, who happens to also be a preacher out west. What will Gilbert do when he finds out about her past?

The Five Orphaned Christian Sisters Journey Along The Oregon Trail, is a moving story about five orphaned sisters and what they find during their journey in a wagon train, west to Oregon. It's a story about love for some of them, faith in God, and the redemption of one lost soul who started the journey all alone. With their uncle to guide and protect them, as well as their strong faith and love of God, they are able to prevail and look forward to their new life on the west coast during the mid-1880s.

Prairie Girl Legacy: Seven Children Who Love God, is the gentle and loving story of one independent prairie woman talking about her seven children and how they were raised, and who they are. As a result, she has many grandchildren who help pass along her legacy of love and understanding, service to others, powerful faith, and the love of God.

This is a story about a young Amish couple who had planned to get married when they were permitted to do so. One horrible lie told by a young woman throws the entire community into chaos and splits Jacob and Grace Ella apart. It's only when the woman confesses that things may start to be pulled together once again. The only problem is, unable to stand all of the changes in her life now that she cannot be with Jacob, Grace Ella runs off and the brothers of both families set out to find her.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Jed, Maggie from London, and the Rabbi is a story about two damaged people finding love, thanks to the assistance of one rabbi. Jed went to prison for a while after he killed the man who had killed his beautiful wife. He and a rabbi are the only two people in town who are Jewish and they become friends. The rabbi encourages lonely and crotchety Jed to advertise for a mail order bride and without warning, because of a mistake, one shows up on his doorstep.