Beth: 574 books

When a woman gets off the train from Boston to meet her intended, she’s met instead by a federal marshal who tells her that her beau is in prison while possible treason charges are sorted out. After returning to his ranch and almost immediately, a strange series of events occurs and they are all...

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 and finally, she takes that leap of faith and starts the three-week journey towards her future life.

Mail Order Bride: The Bostonian & Her Prisoner Fiancé - When a woman gets off the train from Boston to meet her intended, she’s met instead by a federal marshal who tells her that her beau is in prison while possible treason charges are sorted out. After returning to his ranch and almost immediately,...

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 further and finally decides on a man -- a cowboy rancher living in Texas. There is only one problem – he loves food and she doesn’t know how to cook.

Mail Order Bride: Schoolteacher, Cowboy Rancher, & Some Stolen Cattle - A Boston schoolteacher heads to Kansas to meet her new mail ordered husband. Immediately starting off on the wrong foot, she finally does meet her man and from that point onwards, her life changes in a dramatic and unexpected...

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...

A plain and tall young woman with a gentle soul travels back to Texas where her family ranch is, to be with her fiancé who she has corresponded with. He’s a widower with four children and barely makes ends meet, and when his relative cuts off the water to his ranch he suffers along with his cattle....

Mail Order Bride: The English Woman & Her Damaged Cowboy - A woman from England decides to get out of London and seek a husband in California and after corresponding with a cowboy, makes her way there. There is nothing to do when he’s gone for weeks at a time and she begins to get restless,...

Mail Order Bride: Challenged to Love By A Difficult Man - 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...

Mail Order Bride: Only One Hand, But A Complete Heart - An orphan from New York discovers a mail order bride poster and decides to correspond with a cowboy rancher in Texas. He replies immediately, with a ticket enclosed, and she has no chance to tell him she lost one of her hands to a childhood accident....

A Long Distance Relationship - A woman, on the way to help her aunt over a bout of illness, meets a man on the train and begins a relationship with him. He even visits she and her aunt and the woman believes that the relationship will grow and flourish. There are obstacles however -- one big one being...

Mail Order Bride: The Overweight Boston Woman & The Cowboy With A Checkered Past In Oklahoma - An overweight and accident-prone woman from Boston decides to make her way to Oklahoma, and to a tall cowboy with a checkered past. She doesn’t know that, and when she finds out, has almost decided...

An orphan from New York discovers a mail order bride poster and decides to correspond with a cowboy rancher in Texas. He replies immediately, with a ticket enclosed, and she has no chance to tell him she lost one of her hands to a childhood accident. He is abrupt with her when he sees it, but takes her out to his ranch to meet his son.

A pair of sisters take an Orphan Train out of NYC and end up in Minnesota where they are eventually adopted by a loving farm family. It’s a little harder than they thought fitting in but as the older sister reaches maturity, she runs into an old childhood friend from the big city, and this makes her wonder what will happen to her as she reaches adulthood.