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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When her cheating fiancé steals her inheritance, ex-heiress Genevieve Patchett has to get a job-fast! She secures an audience with Chicago's most belligerent boss, Lucas McDowell, but his disarmingly attractive presence leaves her tongue-tied! Lucas is confident that Genevieve's passion and talent are what he needs to get his women's shelter off the ground. And it's personally important to him that it's a success. Genevieve could be the perfect colleague...
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The unconventional Lady Katherine McKenna has been granted a rare privilege: the right to choose her own husband. It's a more difficult task than she expected. When at last she agrees to a betrothal, it quickly goes awry, leaving Katherine alone in the wilds...and rescued by Laird Lachlan MacTavish. She's captivated by the proud, brooding chief who shows her such tender care. But with their clans on the brink of war, the honorable Lachlan resists...
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young Rhea is a miller's daughter of low birth, so she is understandably surprised when a mysterious nobleman, Lord Crevan, shows up on her doorstep and proposes marriage. Since commoners don't turn down lords--no matter how sinister they may seem--Rhea is forced to agree to the engagement. Lord Crevan demands that Rhea visit his remote manner before their wedding. Upon arrival, she discovers that not only was her betrothed married six times before,...
Author
Series
Outlaw mail order brides volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Former outlaw Clay Colby is abuzz with his mail order bride's expected arrival. He's fought long and hard to drag Devil's Crossing out of lawlessness...so when his homestead is set ablaze by a bitter rival, he's heartbroken. There's no woman in the world who'd stand by him now. But Tally Shannon is no ordinary woman. After escaping the psychiatric hospital in which she was wrongfully detained, Tally only wants someone to protect her and the little...
Author
Series
Outlaw mail order brides volume 4
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Accused of crimes he didn't commit, ex-preacher Ridge Steele is forced to give up everything he knew and make his home with outlaws. Desperate for someone to confide in, he strikes up correspondence with mail-order bride Adeline Jancy, finding in her the open heart he's been searching for. Upon her arrival, Ridge discovers Addie only communicates through the written word, but he knows a little of what trauma can do to a person and vows to stand by...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaving your fiancé at the altar on live television is a disaster. Lexie Kowalsky thought she was ready to get married in front of millions of people, but at the last minute she fled the set of television's hottest reality show, Gettin' Hitched. Wearing a poofy white dress and a pair of five-inch sparkly shoes, Lexie hopped a float plane for Sandspit, Canada. She figured no one would find her there. But she was wrong. Sharing her flight was the...
Author
Series
Runaway brides (Amy Sandas) volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Courtney Adams never questioned the future her parents laid out for her...until the day she was to marry one of Boston's elite. Desperate, she flees the church in a flurry of bridal finery and trades her pearls for a train ticket to Montana--only to be mistaken for a surly cowboy's mail order bride! Dean Lawton doesn't want a wife--especially not some fancy Eastern lady he believes his brother "ordered" behind his back. Yet one mistake leads to another,...
Author
Series
Cowboys and brides volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Emily Cooper gets more than she bargained for when she promises her dying grandfather that she'll hand-deliver a long-lost letter to a woman he once planned to marry.
Author
Series
Hazards of dukes volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this delightful flip of a classic romance trope, Megan Frampton creates a handsome, witty, hero in need of a wealthy bride who meets his match in Lady Jane Capel, from A Wicked Bargain with the Duke. It's a well-known fact that when a man is in search of a bride, a good dowry is never a hindrance. Thomas Sharpe is handsome, well-bred, and desperately in need of a wealthy bride. His father has lost their income, his sister needs looking after, and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"When Susannah goes to Dakota territory as a mail-order bride she finds something she never dreamed she would-true love. With no prospects for marriage and her parents recently deceased, Susannah Freemont agrees to go west to the Dakota territory to marry her minister's homesteading brother, Jesse. But Susannah is painfully shy, doesn't see herself as worthy of love from either a husband or from God, and lives in constant fear that Jesse is going...
71) Keeping guard
Author
Series
Operation K-9 brothers volume 2
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Finding the future they deserve will mean leaving the past behind ... Navy SEAL Noah Alba is on extended leave after a terrible mistake resulted in the loss of his K-9 partner. He arrives in Asheville, North Carolina, hoping to get his head on straight before he returns overseas. When an old friend recruits him to train service dogs for veterans, he doesn't feel ready. Still, rambunctious rescue dog Lucky is awfully hard to resist--as is the drop-dead...
Author
Series
Blue willow brides volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Set in 1880s Colorado, a mail order bride is full of doubts when another mail order bride arrives to marry the same man.
Author
Series
Bachelors of Battle Creek volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
North Central Texas, 1878. Rancher Cooper Thorne thinks his life is finally on an even keel, until Delta Dandridge steps off the stagecoach and claims she's his mail order bride. Brash and quick-witted, the meddling Southern Belle is everything Cooper thought he never wanted, and everything his heart is telling him he needs.
74) I take this man
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After being jilted by her fiancé on her wedding day, Penny Bracket mostly wants to know why ... and maybe get just a little revenge.
Author
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1859 Colorado, Marigold Davis arrives in Denver City under the guise of a mail-order bride and makes an arrangement with Virgil Gardner to stay and care for his three children, but a single woman in a mining camp draws unwanted attention.
76) The typist
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Assigned to post-World War II Japan in the first year of the occupation, military typist Van finds his distinctly Western values tested by the culture, his duties as a babysitter for General MacArthur's son, and startling news from his young war bride.
77) Amish brides
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"Three brides prepare for their weddings according to uniquely Amish traditions in three novella"--
78) A bride for Noah
Author
Series
Seattle brides volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Penniless and desperate for an adventure, Evie Lawrence moves to the Oregon Territory in 1851, intending to build a restaurant in one of the new settlements there.
79) Rainy day dreams
Author
Series
Seattle brides volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When the Burgert family moves from San Francisco to Seattle in 1852, Kathryn is convinced her father has destroyed her life, until she meets Jason, a lumberjack with dreams for a bright future.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
In the wild and untamed West, time is set by the local jeweler...but Two-Time Texas has two: two feuding jewelers and two wildly conflicting time zones. Meg Lockwood's marriage was supposed to unite the families and finally bring peace. But when she's left at the altar by her no-good fiance, Meg's dreams of dragging her quarrelsome neighbors into a ceasefire are dashed. Hired to defend the groom against a breach of promise lawsuit, Grant Garrison...
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