Beth: 574 books

Mail Order Bride: Better Fall In Love Or It’s The Horse Trough - A large multi-generational family from Philadelphia heads to North Dakota to meet with several potential mail order husbands, but along the way there’s a pit stop at a ranch to learn the ins and outs of ranch life. This is a humorous...

Mail Order Bride: Orphaned Scullery Maid From London & The Red Headed Farmer In Kansas - An orphaned scullery maid from England decides to take a chance on becoming a mail order bride so she makes the arduous journey by boat, then by wagon train, to Kansas, where she is to be the mail order bride...

A solitary man who thinks himself long past marrying age, and who has difficulty in meeting and interacting with people, joins a cattle drive, learns a lot more about life and people and maybe, just maybe, starts to fall in love.

Two sisters from London set out for America to become mail order brides, but not together. One follows the other on a ship that set sail the previous day, and then meets up with her supposed mail order husband who is a Pinkerton detective. They set off for Nevada for any sign of the woman’s sister, who they believe is being held against her will.

A woman from Boston, used to the high society there, decides to head west to the wide open spaces of Texas in order to be with her new fiancé and unknown to her, his very difficult and stubborn mother. She does her best to work with the mother but finally, things come to a head and she makes a difficult decision.

Mail Order Bride: Trying To Forget Her Past Life - A woman who lost her husband and child, moves west and to a man who is nothing but kind. However, she simply cannot forget the memories that haunt her every waking moment and she finds relief only when she’s sleeping. A woman with scars from...

Mail Order Bride: The Little Family Caretaker In Colorado - A young woman tries her hardest to escape the clutches of a woman claiming to be their aunt, who had taken over the family ranch in Colorado when her parents died. She has always looked after her younger siblings and they all plot to escape...

Mail Order Bride: A Bit Of The Lucky Blood & The Fisherman In New Orleans - A woman from Ireland goes to New York and works for a year at a menial factory job and faces much discrimination towards the Irish. A notice in a church leads her to correspond with a fisherman in New Orleans, Louisiana...

A woman decides to take a chance on another mail order husband, and one who had rejected many women before her. It’s very difficult at first and she fears rejection at every turn but after a few weeks, she has a chance to prove herself by showing him just what she can accomplish.

Mail Order Bride: Orphaned Missouri Woman Who Can’t Cook Heads To The Texas Cowboy Rancher Who Loves To Eat - A woman from Missouri loses her mother to a stagecoach accident and reads a letter about mail order brides that her mom had left for her before leaving on her trip. She explores the option...

Mail Order Bride: Sheriff Jon & Bessie, Who Falls Asleep A Lot – A Welsh woman with narcolepsy decides to make the hazardous journey out west to her mail order husband, a sheriff in Kansas. Her father has pinned a note to her dress so folks along the way help her as she falls asleep in various...

Mail Order Bride: Rescuing Her Kidnapped Sister With The Help Of Her Detective Fiancé - Two sisters from London set out for America to become mail order brides, but not together. One follows the other on a ship that set sail the previous day, and then meets up with her supposed mail order husband...

Because of poverty her mother sells a beautiful young woman to a cowboy baron in Texas, and the woman fears that she will never come to love the mysterious Mr. Blake until one day, he saves her from a menacing figure. This is a lovely historical romance short story.

Mail Order Bride: The Widow & The Man With Secrets In California - After her husband passes away and then her sister, a woman travels to California to meet a man she believes needs medical care. After noticing a wanted poster and then meeting him, she begins to realize that all is not as it seems,...