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Abby McCarthy has a knack for making friends, and a reputation for being one of the most skilled seamstresses in Boston. But times are tough, and work is impossible to find. Desperate, she agrees to travel to Texas to marry a rancher, Will Skinner. But Will Skinner has challenges of his own. In the three years of working his ranch, it’s been one disaster after another. He’s at the end of his rope – and when Abby arrives and voices her disappointment in what she finds, it seems their marriage is destined to be over before it begins.

Charlotte "Lottie" Thomson feels trapped in the stifling confines of her life in Boston, where the only escape seems to be marriage. Desperate for freedom, she decides to become a Mail Order Bride and heads west for a fresh start. Impulsively, Lottie books passage on the first stagecoach to Texas. The journey takes a dangerous turn when notorious outlaw Luke "Hawk" Jackson and his gang ambush the stagecoach, robbing the passengers and killing a young woman named Emily. Lottie discovers that Emily was on her way to Clearwater, Texas, to marry a rancher named Nathan Caldwell.

Following the passing of her mother, Ella Emerson faces a whirlwind of upheaval. Burdened by family debt, her house must be sold, and her uncle arranges for her to become a Mail Order Bride. Her intended husband, Lawrence Carrington, is a handsome, wealthy rancher in Mountain Pass, Oregon. With little say in the matter, Ella agrees to the arrangement to honor her mother's memory.

Rose Clarke has only ever wanted one thing: to spend her life caring for the family she loves. But when her godfather tells her his nephew in Montana has asked for her hand in marriage, she allows herself to be persuaded to set her sights on another goal – that of becoming a wife. Abram Ward carries the tragedy of a failed romance – along with a heavy burden of guilt. He wants nothing more than to care for his ranch and be left alone.

Nellie Williams is tired of the mundane, everyday sort of life she leads in Middleburg, Virginia. She longs for adventure, excitement, and true love—but she stands little chance of finding any of it if she stays put at home. When her cousin tells her about matrimonial agencies, her imagination takes flight at once. She can just see it now—being matched with a handsome cowboy in the Wild West, raising children, fighting off outlaws. But as she starts her journey toward the future, the fulfillment of her dreams is far more than she bargained for.

With both parents working all hours and four younger brothers at home, the care and keeping of the household is squarely on her shoulders. When her father forces her to find a job in addition to everything else, it proves to be too much. Desperate for a way out, Mandy agrees to become a mail-order bride and marry a man she’s never met—a ranch hand named Matthew Bostwick, in Mine’s Place, Colorado. But traveling from Boston to Colorado is just the beginning of Mandy’s journey.

Mallory Stewart’s father arranges a marriage between her and the town’s mayor. The mayor is an odious man, and Mallory wants nothing to do with him. She escapes the marriage when he is arrested for stealing from the town’s treasury. Frank Griffin needs a wife. But in Spring Valley, Texas, potential wives are hard to come by. Frank learns of a mail order bride agency, and thinking himself a fool, he sends an application. A month later, he receives a letter from a lady back East who agrees to marry him.

After being turned down by yet another employer, nurse Adele Cowen is in dire straits—her rent is due, her fiancé has abandoned her, and she has nothing left to keep her in New York. When a chance to marry the mayor of a small town in Texas arises, she jumps at the chance. But when bandits strike her train, Adele is left alone in the middle of a strange land. It seems impossible when she stumbles across a lonely, sick man in need of her help. The stranger is Preston Wilder, and he’s a bounty hunter in search of the Silver Gang—the very gang that robbed her train.

Lonely, heartbroken, and determined to leave tragedy behind, Clarabelle Demont packs up her belongings and travels west to Montana. There, she stays with her brother, Stuart, her only living relative, who works as foreman on Circle Moss Ranch in Fort Riggins, Montana.

Serena Stapleton’s father insists she marry in order to satisfy his debt. Upset and angry, Serena boards a train to faraway California. Halfway through the journey, the train is held up by outlaws. Serena is struck on the head and thrown from the train. Tim Dawson, the widowed doctor in Fort Riggins, Montana, rushes to where Serena is injured. He takes care of her in his clinic. His mother insists the young woman recover in their home. Serena, waking to strangers and terrified, claims no memory of what happened to her—praying this might be her way out of the marriage contract.

Laura Willard has a problem. Her father is marrying her off to the highest bidder for his personal gain, and she detests the man he has selected. Edgar Cochran is pompous, coldhearted, and a snob. She cannot let her father sentence her for life with such a man—even if it means getting cast out penniless. Then she hears of a possible solution—a mail-order bride agency matching men from the Wild West with women from the East. Can this be how she escapes her father’s dictatorship?

When her father passes away suddenly, Justine Mayer has no reason to stay in Boston. With the promise of a romance, she answers an advert for a mail-order bride and sets out for Fielder’s Union, Arkansas. When she arrives, she discovers the man she is all set to marry isn’t waiting for her. Even worse, he may never have existed. Taken in and sheltered by the Barnett family, she begins to rebuild her shattered life in Fielder’s Union, unsure of what the future holds. All she knows is she has found new friends, including the handsome local sheriff, Tom Barnett.

Desperate to help her family, Elaine Rockmont agrees to marry Rodney Kingman, an ordinary bank teller in Fort Riggins, Montana. On the train west, she meets the handsome and entertaining Billy Warwick. The trip passes quickly in Billy’s company, yet she is promised to Rodney. Billy regrets leaving the beautiful and enticing Elaine at the hotel with Rodney. Later, when a pretty young lady shows off a nervous horse as a “wedding present” to Rodney and Elaine, she is thrown from the saddle. Rodney’s quick and intense response is puzzling. What is going on here?

Society belle Sybil Webb is certain she is destined for something better than the social scene of Boston. Desperate to find a way out from under the thumb of her upwardly mobile father, she answers a newspaper advert for a mail-order bride. But escaping Boston was the easy part of Sybil’s adventure. Her intended groom, Dr. Henry Miller, is not what he appeared to be. Alone in a strange town, Sybil takes shelter with the friendly Frost family, where she finds herself challenged by—and undeniably drawn to—the Frost’s cousin, Brian Smith, a handsome man embittered by lost love.

Georgiana Middleton doesn’t know what she’s getting into when she agrees to become a Mail Order Bride to a rancher in Fielder’s Union, Arkansas. But she has more reasons to leave home than she has to stay, and when she arrives at the tiny town, she is delighted to find the family friendly and welcoming.

Melinda Post flees Pittsburgh, and heads west to marry Bart Brown, a young newspaper owner. Although Bart has advertised in the Matrimonial News, Melinda doesn’t answer his Mail Order Bride advert straight away. She wants to see for herself what kind of man Bart is, before she promises herself to him. So, she poses as a married woman, takes a job with Bart at his newspaper, and falls in love with him as they work together. But believing she’s married, Bart won’t give in to his feelings for her - and he begins writing another Mail Order Bride.

Jael Wheeler’s life in Philadelphia turns upside down with the tragic loss of her father, who leaves her penniless. To survive, Jael becomes a Mail Order Bride. Upon finding a man willing to marry her, Jael heads for Montana, only to discover her fiancé has fled, chasing another woman to Denver. Now, a mysterious cowboy haunts Jael, following her and watching her every move. Women are going missing, and rumor has it, they’re being sold to miners.

Years after being left at the altar, Susan Spencer is facing another sad, cold, lonely Christmas in Boston. Unwilling to let her life continue like this, she accepts a match with a bachelor blacksmith in Miles Gulch, Wyoming. Her dreams are immediately shattered. Her fiancé is deathly ill and passes away shortly after her arrival. Alone in Miles Gulch, Susan befriends the folks in town, and when they assume she was already married to the blacksmith, she hasn’t the heart to set them straight. With a home, a job, and friends, Susan is determined to make this new life a better one.

Madeline Reynolds is setting out on an adventure - and she’s not too happy about it. When her new husband Jack tells her he’s moving them to a nowhere town named Shadow Gulch, Idaho, she’s reluctant to leave behind her happy, comfortable life in Boston. But with her husband’s orders ringing in her ears, she boards the train to her new life…only to find everything changed by a terrible tragedy. When Jack is killed by attacking outlaws, Madeline finds herself adrift in Shadow Gulch, without a penny to her name - and without a friend to call on in her hour of need.

Full of dread, 20-year-old Sadie Alberts enters her stepfather’s study. He informs her she’s to be married off to an ill-tempered business acquaintance across the country in Oregon. Terrified, Sadie has no option but to obey. On the way, she’s caught up in a disaster outside of Shadow Gulch, Idaho - one that leaves her stranded and with no memory. Sadie is taken in by the kind folks of Shadow Gulch and finds a home with the local doctor and his family.