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When her betrothed leaves her for another woman, Celina Murray is distraught. Certain that she will never love again, she agrees to a marriage of convenience, arranging to care for two small children of a bachelor guardian. But love is not an option. Carrying his own load of tragedy and rejection, Sheriff Troy Faraday is just as sure that he can never again trust - or love - a woman.

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. When the odious son of a failing steel baron announces they are engaged in order to marry into her rich family, Sally is truly fed up. Taking her life in her hands, she runs away and decides to become a mail-order bride.

Life isn’t easy for a Mail Order Bride…especially when the bride isn’t sure she wants to be one in the first place. But when Naomi Paxton is left a young widow, her friend Kate suggests she apply to a bridal agency along with her. At a loss for what else to do, Naomi agrees, and is matched up with a young store owner named Steven Wragley in Rough Creek, Missouri.

Christmas happens everywhere – except in Daniel Whitmore’s house. After losing his wife during the holidays five years before, Daniel has forbidden his children to celebrate any of the traditions they once loved. It seems things will stay like that forever – until his teenage daughter Melina comes up with a plan.

There aren’t many options for a young woman in Philadelphia during the late 1800s — especially if she’s running away from an abusive family. Eighteen-year-old Aimee Mitcham flees the city for Rough Creek, Minnesota, to meet the man she has agreed to marry. As she waits at the train station to meet her new husband, tragedy strikes. Now left alone and surrounded by strangers, Aimee is grateful to be taken in by handsome rancher Gregory Keegan and his spirited mother Sheila.

After a devastating rejection years ago, Bailey Evans has given up on finding love. Instead, he pours his energy into running the frontier town’s Hardware and Tinware Shop with his best friend, Jacob. But when Jacob is brutally killed in a robbery, his final whispered words seem to gesture toward a future Bailey didn’t think possible....Kathryn Sandridge has been discriminated against her whole life. Despite growing up in a loving home in Boston, she worries that her physical appearance - one brown and one blue eye - is too off-putting to attract a suitor.

Francis Jones, known as Jonesy, never intends to get married. He is too busy building his future - his small and budding ranch in the foothills of Colorado. But when he is shot by outlaws, the local doctor reminds him of his loneliness and urges him to find a mail-order bride. Jocelyn Baxter, a native of New York, promises her dying aunt she will find a husband in the West. She’ll build a future as a mail-order bride by marrying a man in needs of a wife.

Home again at Planter’s Point, Marcus Tait is a wounded man. He’s long since recovered from the horrific mine accident, but his recovery from the woman who deserted him is far from over. Buried in his work on his cousin’s ranch, he fears he’s destined to become a lonely, bitter old man, one who will never love again. Six months a widow, Jessica Archer finds every day a struggle. It isn’t just the loneliness and grief - it’s trying to raise her five-year-old son in her husband’s childhood home, with her cold, overbearing in-laws blaming her for Seth’s death.

Life in Rough Creek, Missouri, isn’t easy - especially if you’re the older brother of the most daring, troublemaking young man in town. Spencer Ludlow has spent his entire life trying to rein in his half-brother Markus, with only middling success. He’s willing enough to keep trying, but with the harvest season coming on, he’d like a little help. Besides, he’s got something more important to focus on - Tina Webber, a young lady from Boston, who has answered his advert for a Mail Order Bride.

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.

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.

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.