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Marriage by contract. Gentle reads featuring characters impacted by the decision to be a mail-order bride. Many of the titles on this list feature a strong faith element.
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A Bride for Keeps: A novel
Melissa Jagears - Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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Although Everett Cline can hardly keep up with the demands of his homestead, he won't humiliate himself by looking for a helpmate ever again--not after being jilted by three mail-order brides. When a well-meaning neighbor goes behind his back to bring yet another mail-order bride to town,... |
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A Reluctant Bride
Jody Hedlund - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Living in London's poorest slum, Mercy Wilkins has little hope of a better life. When she's offered an opportunity to join a bride ship sailing to British Columbia, she agrees. After witnessing so much painful heartache and loss in the slums, the bride ship is her only prospect to escape... |
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Beneath a Prairie Moon: A Novel
Kim Vogel Sawyer - WaterBrook
Format: Paperback
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Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal dealings, she finds herself forced into a role she never imagined: tutoring rough Kansas ranchers in the subjects of manners... |
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A Sensible Arrangement
Tracie Peterson - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Book
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Marty Dandridge Olson is ready to leave behind the pain of the past. Answering an advertisement for a "Lone Star bride," she leaves her Texas ranch and heads to Denver to marry a man she doesn't know. Jake Wythe is the man waiting for her. Burned by love, he marries now simply... |
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The Outlaw Takes a Bride
Susan Page Davis - Center Point; Lrg edition
Format: Large print book
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Johnny Paynter flees Denver to escape being hanged for a murder he didn't commit. At his brother's ranch in Texas, where he thought he could take refuge, he finds his brother, Mark - dead. Taking advantage of his strong resemblance to his brother, Johnny assumes Mark's identity.... |
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Spring for Susannah
Catherine Richmond - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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Hundreds of miles from home, Susannah faces an uncertain future as a mail-order bride on the untamed Dakota prairie. When her parents die suddenly, and no suitors call, Susannah resigns herself to the only option available: becoming a mail-order bride. Agreeing to marry her pastor's... |
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Sixteen Brides
Stephanie Grace Whitson - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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In Sixteen Brides by Christy Award finalist Stephanie Grace Whitson, Civil War widows living in St. Louis are lured west by promises of prime homesteads in a booming community. When the unsuspecting women arrive at Plum Grove, Nebraska, sparks fly as they meet bachelors convinced theyve... |
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Paper Roses (Texas Dreams, Book 1)
Amanda Cabot - Revell
Format: Book
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The future stretches out in front of Sarah Dobbs like the pure blue Texas sky. Leaving the past behind in Philadelphia, mail-order bride Sarah arrives in San Antonio ready to greet her groom, Austin Canfield, a man she has never met but whose letters have won her heart from afar. But there... |
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The Pelican Bride: A Novel
Beth White - Revell
Format: Paperback
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It is 1704 when Genevieve Gaillain and her sister board a French ship headed for the Louisiana colony as mail-order brides. Both have promised to marry one of the rough-and-tumble Canadian men in this New World in order to escape religious persecution in the Old World. Genevieve knows life... |
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His Chosen Bride
Rhonda Gibson - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Book
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This Texan had no intention of becoming a groom . . . until he found out he had a year to find a bride or risk losing the family ranch. Any of the four mail-order brides recently arrived in Granite, Texas, would make a good wife. So why can't Levi Westland stop thinking about the one who refuses... |
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Deeply Devoted: A Novel
Maggie Brendan - Revell
Format: Paperback
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When Catharine Olsen leaves Holland for Wyoming as a mail-order bride, she brings some extra baggage with her: two sisters, her mother's set of Blue Willow china, and a tragic past. As she steps off the train, Peter Andersen is glad to see that she is everything her letters showed her to be. But he is a bit perturbed... |
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