These two Christian Romance Novellas total 18,351 words and are set in the 1800s. Headed West: Strangers On A Train, is number one in the series. A mail order bride is headed for California and a man she has never met, to marry him and start a new life out west. When she meets a charming and handsome lawyer who was fired from his firm and is now headed there too, she is torn between the duty to her parents to marry who they chose for her, and a burgeoning respect then love for Asa, her stranger on a train. She turns to her bible for answers but time is short, so will she find what she's seeking before they both step off the train and disappear into the crowd forever? Jonah & The Indians Meet Alice & Her Special Children is an incredibly moving story about love; love for people of another race, love for children with special needs, and love between a man and a woman--a surprise mail order bride--who can give nothing but kindness to all who surround them.