Meet 6 strong women and the men who love them in this very special set. Enjoy the happiness, love and sorrows of the brides to be and of course there is mystery and mayhem sprinkled in!Callie’s Heart Winner of the 2015 Diamond Lear Award for Best Historical Romance and Rone Award FinalistShannon McMurphy travels to Asherville, Texas as a mail order bride expecting to marry a rancher. Instead, her … rancher. Instead, her intended is a saloonkeeper. Her refusal to marry enrages John Hardy and he slices her cheek with a knife so no other man would want her. She runs into the street and no one helps her until blond, blue-eyed Cinders rescues her.
Sexy, rancher Cinders saves Shannon and offers her a job. To protect her reputation he must marry her. They both agree it’s a marriage of convenience. He admires her spunk and willingness to learn everything about surviving the Texas frontier. He waits for her to ask to go home but she never does.
They learn a lot about each other through, stolen horses, Indian troubles, a cattle drive and the busybodies of the town. Their attraction for each other grows, but can they learn to trust enough to love?
Keegan’s Bride
Keegan Quinn watches the passengers disembark wondering where his mail order bride is. All he sees is a woman with a husband and child. Upon approaching the young woman, he discovers she is his bride, and she has a daughter she never mentioned. As they cross the street, the little girl screams for her daddy and points to the man who accompanied them on the stage.
Rancher Keegan Quinn is furious. The married woman swindled him into paying passage for her and her child. It was fool hardy to think a mail order bride would want him. He rides out of town as fast as he can, vowing never to look back. It’s a loco dream to think he can have a family while constantly looking over his shoulder.
Addy has no idea why Peg calls the new sheriff daddy. It cost her, Keegan, the man she hoped to make a life with. She has many secrets, but the sheriff is not one of them. She needs Keegan to keep her safe from her past in Boston. Once he learns the truth, he’ll send her back, but it’s a chance she’s willing to take.
Shane’s Bride
Rescued from Indians, Cecily McGuinness suffers from horrendous nightmare; ones that have her running from her lodging into the woods. She’ll never be normal again and most of the townspeople look at her with disdain. All she ever wanted was a family and a place to call home.
Sheriff Shane O’Connor is tired of tracking Cecily down each time she takes flight. Finally he makes her an offer to keep his house and help turn it into a farm. Her past doesn’t taint her in his eyes. In fact he finds himself very attracted to her but keeps his distance. She’d suffered enough at the hands of Long Nose.
Amid cheating gamblers, old friends who unexpectedly show up and a fire, a closeness develops between them. Cecily believes she isn’t fit to be a wife anymore. Can Shane convince her heart and soul that she is indeed worthy of a great love?
Tramps Bride
Handsome Cowboy Tramp Hart left his home and friends over a year ago. He’s finally back to make amends and take his place on the ranch. That is until he walks into the house he designed and finds a woman living there. He needs a plan to get her out so he can move in.
Mail Order Bride Ilene Duffy traveled from New York City to Asherville, Texas only to find out her marriage contract was no longer valid. Rancher Cinders and his wife Shannon offer her an empty house on their land. Ilene has no intentions of getting married.
Poor Boy’s Christmas
Poor Boy finally comes home. He’s no longer the waif we grew to love; he is very much a man now. As the stage coach approaches his beloved town he spots Sheriff Shane O’Conner riding off after a pair of bank robbers. Poor Boy, the new deputy quickly finds a horse and races after them. One of the robbers is killed and to his surprise the other outlaw is a beautiful young woman.
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I enjoyed these stories & liked the main charactders.
good beach read
I found this to be great when I needed short stories to keep me occupied. Great short stories.
I enjoyed it but by the fifth story it got to long
Love that the books came together as a set. Now I can read one right after the other. Love this writer.
What a great series….read them all together, it was great !
I thoroughly enjoyed this set of books. Highly recommend this set. I have read other books by the r and she doesn’t disappoint . Always interesting and clean.
I enjoyed this series. Enjoyed the continuity of characters from one book to the next. Somewhat predictable but likeable characters.
I loved the characters, well thought out. Wrapping the stories together forming a different kind of tale. If is a family intwind with multifaceted relationships. Its draws you into the story, and you’ll be sad to say goodbye.
I enjoyed this entire series
I enjoy reading books in a series and keeping tabs on what happens to the characters later. It was very nice to have the whole series and not have to wait months for the next book to be published. While the storie were dark at times they did have happy endings.
really enjoyed the stories, would recommend
Historical fiction lines up with reality in many ways. I have known mail order brides, so was interested in the why’s. Great that it became 1 big family issue to help one another.
Sweet stories.
The series might have been a great read but every third page of the digital copy I got was missing