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Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

When he meets prison inmate Adeline Jancy through correspondence and then in person, outlaw and ex-preacher Ridge Steele realizes she is the woman for him, but then her past catches up with her, threatening to destroy their future together.

A young woman joins up with a wagon-load of mail-order brides headed for Colorado and embarks on an adventure-filled journey through the American West.

Framed for murder and pursued by bloodthirsty killers, Luke Garrett's landed himself in a real fix this time.

Continues the misadventures of drifters-turned-lawmen Bo Creel and Scratch Morton as they attempt to safely deliver a new group of mail-order brides to New Mexico territory.

"Linda Broday's heroes step right out of her books and into your heart." Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author. When the West was wild and man's law favored the few, these extraordinary women could be found...in the heart of an outlaw. When three young children show up on outlaw Tait Trinity's doorstep, he knows he can't help thema wanted man has no business raising kids. And yet he can't bring himself to turn them away. At a loss, he sends...

Grant and Lydia, separated for years by war, rediscover each other when his daughter Jessica marries a young preacher.

It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawling Alaska boomtown called Skagway. A bushwhacking, a storm-racked sea voyage, and an anything-but-friendly reception isn't enough to stop Morgan and his blushing brides. But a beautiful woman has a lucrative plot on her mind--in the wild, wild north where men are mad with greed and loneliness. Now the last gunfighter will need skills he didn't know...

Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now it's her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of a Chicago orphanage. But Miranda has one gigantic concern : her husband-to-be knows nothing about the brothers she's bringing along. What if he calls off the deal when he discovers the trick she's played on him?