USA Today Best Selling Author Kirsten Osbourne Mail Order Mischief
When Elizabeth Miller agreed to manage a mail order bride agency years before, she had no idea that it would leave her lonely and isolated. She's loved one man for years and is about to give up on marrying for love entirely. When she receives a letter from a man in Texas looking for a bride, she considers marrying him to be close to her sister. She doesn't want to be alone for the rest of her life.
Bernard agrees to work for Elizabeth after his life is shattered. As he slowly heals and picks up the pieces and gets to know his beautiful employer, he realizes he is falling for her more and more, but he knows his place in life. When she insists on taking a trip to Fort Worth to check out a potential groom, he knows he can't send her alone. Will he be able to survive the long train ride to Fort Worth without letting his feelings show? Or will Elizabeth somehow convince him that they are meant to be?
USA Today Best Selling Author Callie Hutton Daniel’s Desire: In the Shadow of War
Lt. Daniel McCoy escapes from a Union prison toward the end of the Civil War, his only thought to get far away from enemy territory. But he doesn’t count on saving young widow Rosemarie Wilson’s life.
Rosemarie has no use for Rebels soldiers, having lost everything the last time they visited. But Daniel has not only saved her life, he is sticking around to help with the farm and her children until she recovers.
With Union soldiers searching for him, every day that Daniel remains puts him in danger. Or is it the widow who has captured his heart the greater risk?
Would you become a mail-order bride? Tabitha Masterson is certain whatever awaits her in Radford Crossing , Texas will be better than what awaits her in Boston. . She escapes to begin her new life in Texas, but trouble can’t be far behind. If she’s married when trouble arrives, surely she’ll be safe. But her fiancé is reluctant to accept her as a substitute for the mail-order bride he’d courted.
Bear Baldwin is crushed when he receives a wire notifying him that the woman with whom he has corresponded for almost a year has passed him off to her friend. Do the two women believe he’s like an old shirt to be handed down? His mother urges him to give the substitute fiancée a chance, but his pride is stung and he hasn’t decided.
Women Wanted – Feisty, Head Strong Women Need Not Apply In New Hope, Texas women like children, are to be seen and not heard. Their only job in life is to marry, procreate and be a loyal, obedient wife. Thus the shortage of available women. Until, Abigail Vanderhooten is unexpectedly called home, her head filled with ideas of changing the world.
Jack Turner likes being the mayor in a small, western town where the biggest rabble rousers are cowboys. Everything is about to change when Abigail, returns to town, ready to take on the local laws. While trying to keep the town from splitting apart, he’s surprised how her strong spirit captivates him. And he’s shocked when she manages to worm her way into his bachelor heart, with her controversial ideas.
With a women’s revolution brewing, will Jack be forced to run her out of town, before he has a chance to convey how she’s changed him.
The dnf is just for the first story, Mail Order Misunderstanding byKirsten Osbourne. The plot was too farfetched for anything but romantic comedy. The dialogue lacked the wit and word play needed for a successful rom-com. The opening events leave doubt that the hero and heroine have a brain between the two of them. Just pass on this one.
I enjoyed the five stories from these wonderful authors! Each story gives the reader a taste of frontier living and the challenges faced by women in those times. Strength, courage, and fortitude were required to survive. I'm glad times are different now!
Mail Order Mischief Brides of Beckham Book 16 by Kirsten Osbourne. *** Daniel's Desire by Callie Hutton. ***** Abigail: Scandalous Suffragette Brides Book by Sylvia McDaniel. *** Tabitha's Journey by Caroline Clemmons. *** Trail Blaze by Merry Farmer. ***
I enjoyed all of the stories. So more than others. Nice quite reads. I shouldn't have tried to read all five right after the other.
Beautiful written stories of love, hardship, strength and the determination to make life possible in frontier living. An assortment of wonderful authors came together to share their work and their passion.
OK so far I have only read the first story in this anthology. I was so happy so see Elizabeth finally get a happy ever after! Going to have to come back and read the other stories now just to what they are like.
I love reading about the wild west. The hardships, the struggles and the love. This box set was all about strong women making their way in hard times and the super strong men that loved them.