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Having no family, Jade MacKenna answers a mail order bride advert and travels across the ocean from Ireland to America to meet her intended. Taking the Express Rail to Rough Creek, Missouri, with her future husband, Mike Summerfield, they get caught in a holdup led by the notorious bandit, Hank Bentley. Things turn tragic, and Jade finds herself left alone in a strange land, with her fiancé dying in her arms.

Lucas Kinkaid is sick of being pressured to marry his sister Marjorie’s choice for him - Florence Weston. Lucas doesn’t love Florence and doesn’t even want to get married, but the women in his life have teamed up against him. He’s had it. He’d rather marry a stranger than the lazy, mean-spirited Florence. When he overhears a couple of cowboys talking about getting Mail Order Brides, he decides that will be his solution. He’ll order a bride for himself. Sara Jones doesn’t believe in love.

When successful gold-hunter Charles Lawson decides to settle down in Shallow Gorge, Colorado, he ends up getting more than he bargained for. He never expected his new neighbor to take such an interest in his happiness. And he certainly never expected to be talked into writing an advert for a mail order bride. But when the answer to the advert comes, she is also far more than Charles bargained for. Kate O’Donnell, a young Irish immigrant, has a gorgeous face and a spitfire personality. She travels to Colorado with expectations.

Reese Tait is a single rancher with two small children and a run-down ranch to care for, and he’s running out of time. Aileen Warrick is a young widow with debts to pay and nowhere to turn. She’s also running out of time. Valerie Tait is the frustrated, lovelorn bride who brings them together.

Violet Swanson responds to the advert in the paper with haste. Fleeing an abusive father and an arranged marriage, she travels to Planter’s Point to answer the call from handsome cattle rancher, Kyle Stuart. Kyle runs an expansive, prosperous ranch, where he lives with his sweet mother, Grace. Together, they’ve gone through good times and bad. Now, as Grace’s health falters, she begs Kyle to find a wife, so he won’t be alone.

Lina Sterling loves her family enough to leave them. They’re struggling to scrape out a living on the cruel, unforgiving streets of 19th century Boston, and Lina can’t find a job. The only way she can support her family is to find a rich husband somewhere - and the East is chronically low on men. Her only choice is to head out West on a train in order to marry a man she’s never met. Hotah, a Lakota warrior, still grieves the death of his beloved wife. His mother Wichapi tells him that he needs to take another bride - especially for his baby daughter’s sake.

Keith Hamilton, the son of a wealthy tobacco plantation owner, is ordered to marry a thoroughly disagreeable woman in Rutger’s Creek - or his sister will not be allowed to marry her sweetheart. Something must be done. His best alternative is to get a Mail Order Bride. Anyone is better than Beatrice Charlston. Anyone. Colette Boisselot is newly arrived to America from France. After her fiancé deserts her, she’s impoverished, destitute, and out of options. She signs up to become a Mail Order Bride.

Gabe Douglass is the sheriff of Rutger Creek, Arkansas, and the father of seven-year-old Eva. The death of his wife signaled the end of his love life. There is no room in his heart for anyone new. But when Eva wants a mommy for her birthday, Gabe’s mother goes behind his back and orders a mail order bride for him.

Serena Bailey is sold by her stepfather to a man in Texas to pay off a debt. Hating him for it, Serena is nevertheless forced to go to El Paso, Texas. Leaving her mother behind, she boards a train from New York, leaving her old life behind. Arriving in El Paso, she discovers that Hubert Bishop, her fiancé, is evil and cruel, and she is forced to fight him or die.

Ashton Milford’s twin brother, Noel, is gunned down by outlaw Hank Riley. Noel’s dying wish is for Ashton to marry his intended bride, a woman Ashton knows nothing about. Later, Ashton regrets promising to marry this mystery woman in Noel’s stead and hopes she stays away from the family ranch. Delia Wayne and her young son, Josh, have lost everything. Only the hope of marriage to a rancher named Noel in Nebraska offers them any sort of future. She and Josh arrive in Planter’s Point, and Delia thinks she will soon wed the man she fell in love with through letters.

Terence Heaton believes he’ll never find love. Not only are women in scarce supply in the frontier town of Little Rock, Arkansas, but all the girls stare at him like he’s something mysterious and dangerous. He loved his Cherokee mother, yet the townsfolk never understood her. Except for his housekeeper Harriet, the women in town have labeled him an outcast.

Harper Reid comes from high society. Everything about her screams money. When Harper’s mother dies suddenly, Harper discovers her life was a lie. She is buried in debt she doesn’t understand and didn’t know she had. She goes for the only solution available: She will become a mail order bride and secure a wealthy husband. Expecting a rich doctor’s salary and home, Harper is stunned to find a humble home complete with Logan’s daughter and his mother-in-law. Can they possibly reconcile their differences and find love?

Beau Dawson never saw eye to eye with his father, so he left home to live with his Uncle James in Texas, years ago. James taught him how to be a bounty hunter, and Beau has been content with his life. When Beau gets word his father has died, he travels back home to Arkansas to see his mother and brother. Upon arrival, he learns of his father’s will, demanding that Beau marry within 90 days of the elder Dawson’s death. He even ordered his attorney to place an advert for a mail order bride for his youngest son.

When his young wife dies unexpectedly, Jed McBride has a tough time looking after his young daughter Josie. He decides to send for a mail order bride, hoping to find someone to help take care of his little girl. Across the country, Estelle Morrow is desperate to get away from the Slate Gang and their ruthless leader Amos. As a young girl, she joined her brother as a member of the gang, but now, she wants nothing more than to escape the life of crime.

Two years ago, Quincy Sinclair lost his beloved wife. He walls off his heart, placing his attention solely on his cotton crops and raising his two young children. He counts heavily on his sister’s help, not only with running the home, but in caring for his traumatized children - particularly his son who hasn’t spoken since his mother’s death. When Quincy’s sister announces her betrothal and imminent move across the country, Quincy is frantic. How can he survive without Helena’s help?

After her father passes away, Jodie Wines is lonely and overworked. Her stepmother, a vain and lazy woman, leaves Jodie to do everything. Jodie’s one consolation is that she still lives in her father’s house, her childhood home in Boston, in the town she loves. But when she discovers her stepmother’s plot to marry her off to an odious merchant, Jodie flees west to become a mail order bride.

Doc Tyler Morgan can’t heal himself. He was madly in love with his fiancée, but she died from a mysterious illness, and he couldn’t save her. He couldn’t save his parents, either, when they were injured in the crossfire during a bank robbery. Now he is alone, except for his sister Allie, who is about to marry and move to Montana. Juliet Monroe works in a dead-end, hateful factory job in Boston. She knows midwifery and herbal healing, but she was lured to the factory job with false promises of good money and golden opportunities.

When Elan Beauregard’s best friend brings him a mail order bride to be his fiancée, Elan is outraged. Yet, he cannot very well send the woman away, so she temporarily settles into his household. Elan is surprised when his eight-year-old foster daughter, Kate, bonds with the lovely stranger quickly. Mail order bride Juliana Wills is mortified to discover she is supposed to marry a hard-bitten man who clearly does not like her. She is drawn to his little girl, however, and easily communicates with Kate who is deaf. But after a difficult two weeks, Juliana packs her things and leaves.

Before her death, Cole Tanner’s beloved wife, Amelia, insists that Cole remarry and find happiness in the arms of another woman. Fulfilling her promise to Amelia, Cole’s sister, Grace, places an advert for a mail order bride on his behalf. When young, beautiful Catarina Mueller arrives at his ranch, Cole wants nothing to do with her. Searching for a home where she can belong, Catarina knows her situation is hopeless. Cole will never love her nor accept her as his wife. While Cole’s son befriends her, his twin sister despises her on sight.

When Courtney Atwood’s husband dies in an accident, she does her best to mourn him as she ought. But they never really loved each other, and their marriage was simply one of convenience. Raising her five-year-old son on her own becomes a challenge for more than one reason--how can she explain that there should be more to life than simply accepting what you’re given?