Barbara Goss

After losing his hearing while firing a cannon during the Civil War, Cody came to Great Bend to nurse his ailing aunt, who dies and leaves him a wealthy man....

Tatianna Murray joins her best friends in writing to the men headed for Europe during World War I. Ryan’s letters stand out from the others. Two strangers find within the words something they both share: loneliness and the loss of their parents....

A pretty, single woman in the Old West where there is a shortage of women would surely cause heads to turn, as well as garner some serious suitors. As soon as Marissa steps off the stage, every man in Hunter’s Grove is mesmerized....

Could a child’s dream be a heavenly plan? Millie needs a mama, and her papa needs a horse trainer - how can a six-year-old combine the two and come up with both? The housekeeper assists by mailing an old friend from Pennsylvania for help....

Cameron needs a family, and Hannah needs a new life. She accepts Cameron’s offer, marries the lawyer by proxy, and heads for Kansas. It isn’t long after she arrives she discovers her new husband is a deceiving, lying, manipulative man....

Jesse, a scarred man after being a bounty hunter for 10 years, lives like a recluse. Suddenly two women enter his life, a raving beauty named Delia, and a bubbly woman, named Charlotte, who loves riding and shooting....

Dr. Connor Beauregard Van Gates the IV and Elsie Crenshaw use a successful matchmaker to bring them together by using questionnaires to sort out their likes and dislikes. However, a catastrophe occurs, and things get very mixed up....

After Seth’s death Greta finds out she is with child. Seth’s parents pressure their other son, Adam, into a proxy marriage in order to keep the child in the family. Adam loves the sea and fails to arrive in Texas to meet his proxy bride....

Jilted by the beautiful Lucy moves Wyatt to find a woman based on her heart rather than her appearance. After a lengthy correspondence, he decides Vera’s the one. Yet, he didn’t want her looks to influence his decision, so he arranged a proxy marriage....

The couple finds themselves in an age-old dilemma. A love that can’t ever blossom. Glenna McKay thinks Spence Blackwood is a handsome, gentleman drifter, and she falls in love with him knowing he won’t be staying in town long....

As a mail order bride, Hope finds herself married to an outlaw. She is left stranded on the Oregon Trail at about the same time as Daniel’s wife dies of cholera. The wagon train master strongly urges them to join forces and marry....

Logan Sinclair, a gambler, has an ultimatum from his father to clean up his life and marry, or lose his inheritance. He complies with all but the marriage. His father dies before he can change his will, leaving Logan just weeks to find a bride....

Secrets are told, so that with time, they may be discovered. Were Betsy Wheeler’s father and brother criminals? The sheriff, Noah Sommers, intends to find out and arrest them....

Joanna’s mail-order husband turns out to be the town’s drunk. While trying to escape one trap, she falls into another, but this one might have rewards....

Travis Bentley had been conned by two mail-order brides, so he decides to stay single and concentrate on his ranch, so when his sister asks him to marry a woman in Denver by proxy so she can adopt a child, he readily agrees....

Nathan, a widower, is critically injured in a Civil War battle and lies on his death bed. His best friend, Ben, promises to care for his daughter, Belle. Ben’s sister, Allison, is doomed to become a spinster, so she jumps at the chance to become a widow rather than a spinster....

A Chinook Indian by heritage, Dawn was orphaned and given to a white family as a slave. Dawn soon finds herself falling for Jake, who recently moved to Silverpines. The catch? Society still held prejudices against Native Americans and the whites who married them....

Bounty hunter Logan McGuire is aggressively hunting down a desperado who killed someone dear to him. A saloon woman, Paulina Flanders finagles herself into accompanying him, since she’s holding back valuable information about the criminal....

Twin brothers: one is troubled and the other is trouble. What sort of a twin leaves his brother to deal with the impending arrival of his mail order bride? Reece threatens to pay for her return to Pennsylvania, but his father falls ill, and he needs to hire her as his father’s companion....

Zoe and Alf make each other promises before parting for separate colleges. Can they keep those promises? Find out....