Susannah Calloway

In the season of miracles, Penelope must learn to let go of the gloves that hide her scarred past and open her heart, trusting that healing and love can come with the magic of Christmas.

As a servant in a wealthy household, Emelia Brandon is subject to hard work, little food, and great hardship. She has no choice but to become a mail order bride, flee west to Arizona, and marry a man she’s never seen....

Maggie Whitaker has spent most of her life in a Boston orphanage, serving as a surrogate mother to countless children. Now, at twenty-two and too old to stay, she faces an uncertain future. Determined to find a family of her own, she answers a matrimonial advert that leads her to Clearwater, Texas.

Mary Rose Martin is desperate. With seven younger sisters all happily married, her wealthy Virginia family is starting to give up on her, and she faces the dismal fate of being an old maid. Her only choice is to marry Thorton Ellis, 30 years her senior - and completely odious....

Sally Johnson is sick of her life - sick of the upper class, sick of the social gatherings, sick of the dirty, bustling city, and truly sick of never feeling as though she is good enough....

Raising his three rambunctious children on a small farm in Shallow Gorge, Colorado, Billy Spence is at his wits’ end. It’s hard enough to eke out a living in such a rough area; it’s even harder caring for three little ones on his own....

Abby McCarthy has a knack for making friends, and a reputation for being one of the most skilled seamstresses in Boston. But times are tough, and work is impossible to find. Desperate, she agrees to travel to Texas to marry a rancher, Will Skinner.

Charlotte "Lottie" Thomson feels trapped in the stifling confines of her life in Boston, where the only escape seems to be marriage. Desperate for freedom, she decides to become a Mail Order Bride and heads west for a fresh start. Impulsively, Lottie books passage on the first stagecoach to Texas.

Desperate for a new start in life, Angie responds to a letter in the Matrimonial Times. A marriage of convenience is all she expects from the union. But things get complicated when she falls for the man—and even more complicated when her past tracks her down....

Jenny Jansen has always served at Thompson Manor. As the head cook, life is steady, but she wants something more, and she dreams of moving out West to pursue her freedom. There is just one problem—Roy Olson....

Nellie Williams is tired of the mundane, everyday life she leads. She longs for adventure, excitement, and true love—but she stands little chance of finding any of it if she stays put at home. When her cousin tells her about matrimonial agencies, her imagination takes flight at once....

With both parents working all hours and four younger brothers at home, the care and keeping of the household is squarely on her shoulders. When her father forces her to find a job in addition to everything else, it proves to be too much....

Mallory Stewart’s father arranges a marriage between her and the town’s mayor. The mayor is an odious man, and Mallory wants nothing to do with him. She escapes the marriage when he is arrested for stealing from the town’s treasury. Frank Griffin needs a wife....

After being turned down by yet another employer, nurse Adele Cowen is in dire straits—her rent is due, her fiancé has abandoned her, and she has nothing left to keep her in New York. When a chance to marry the mayor of a small town in Texas arises, she jumps at the chance....

Lonely, heartbroken, and determined to leave tragedy behind, Clarabelle Demont packs up her belongings and travels west to Montana. There, she stays with her brother, Stuart, her only living relative, who works as foreman on Circle Moss Ranch in Fort Riggins, Montana....

Serena Stapleton’s father insists she marry in order to satisfy his debt. Upset and angry, Serena boards a train to faraway California. Halfway through the journey, the train is held up by outlaws. Serena is struck on the head and thrown from the train....

Laura Willard has a problem. Her father is marrying her off to the highest bidder for his personal gain, and she detests the man he has selected. Then she hears of a possible solution—a mail-order bride agency matching men from the Wild West with women from the East....

When her father passes away suddenly, Justine Mayer has no reason to stay in Boston. With the promise of a romance, she answers an ad for a mail-order bride and sets out for Fielder’s Union, Arkansas. When she arrives, she discovers the man she is set to marry isn’t waiting for her....

Desperate to help her family, Elaine Rockmont agrees to marry Rodney Kingman, an ordinary bank teller in Fort Riggins, Montana. On the train west, she meets the handsome and entertaining Billy Warwick. The trip passes quickly in Billy’s company, yet she is promised to Rodney....

Society belle Sybil Webb is certain she is destined for something better than the social scene of Boston. Desperate to find a way out from under the thumb of her upwardly mobile father, she answers a newspaper advert for a mail-order bride....