Download or read book Kansas Brides written by Denise Hunter and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the historic plains, four women find someone to marry. Will these brides blossom like sunflowers in the prairie heat - or wither under the pressures of marriage? Is it really love when... Sara's trying to escape an abusive stepfather, and her groom marries to please his father? Jane wonders if the marriage proposal she's received is Luke's reaction to the love he just lost - Jane's own sister? Mara collects suitors like some women collect teacups - though not the one man she really wants? Emily says "I do" with the dream of having children but finds her husband has no such desire? Will these marriages ripen to a full harvest of love or will they produce only chaff scattered on the wind? Can these women trust God to orchestrate their lives and loves?

Download or read book Bittersweet Bride written by Denise Hunter and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one suitor Mara Lawton cannot add to her collection is the one she wants most--Clay Stedman. Clay has just arrived in Cedar Springs to work the Stedman ranch. His widowed aunt is leaving to visit family back East, and Clay must find someone to care for his little sister and perform the household chores--like cooking for fourteen cowboys, doing the laundry, and feeding the hogs. Mara offers Clay her services, despite having never cooked a meal, washed a garment, or gone near a hog in her life. Clay is taken with Mara's looks, but a recent heartbreak makes him wary--that and the fact she doesn't share his faith in God. For Mara, whose self-worth is based on her family's wealth and royal lineage, obstacles and reverses create a terrible inner turmoil. Will she cling to her own ways or allow God to move in her life? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!

Download or read book His Brother s Bride written by Denise Hunter and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOTED FAVORITE HISTORICAL BOOK IN 2003 Emily Wagner will be a mail-order bride. This arrangement will answer all of her problems - best buried. But when she arrives in Cedar Bend, Kansas, she finds her world has been turned upside-down. Cade Manning needs a mother for his son Adam. He has no intention of replacing the memory of his beloved wife Ingrid, but he knows he can't make ends meet without help. Marrying Emily just makes sense. Never mind that they'll only be husband and wife in name only. Surely, she won't be disappointed. Can Emily trust God to work things out for the good? Will Cade be able to forgive her for her lies and love her as she has come to love him?

Download or read book Brides of Kansas written by Tracey V. Bateman and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courage and Romance from the Heart of the Frontier On the harsh Kansas plains, determination, strength, and courage are the only means survival for three women. Alone on the prairie with her orphaned niece, Cassidy Sinclair has no money and no choice but to do the unthinkable. She meets with Wendell St. John III—a man with four children who has advertised for a wife. Tarah St. John has been frustrated with life and love, until the appearance of two abused children drastically changes her focus. The man she loves, who hasn’t reciprocated affection, offers his support with the boys, but can Tarah accept his help if that’s all he can offer? Laney Jenkins and Luke St. John are made of the same mettle—stubborn and determined. Luke, a rancher, believes Laney is the one for him and will follow him to Oregon. But Laney has ideas of her own. These women have thrown convention to the wind in order to make their home on the frontier. But when confronted with the power of human and divine love, can they risk their hearts?

Download or read book Stranger s Bride written by Denise Hunter and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan McClain is backed into a corner. Either he must marry, as dictated by his father's will, or he will lose the ranch that has been in his family for three generations. Angry and bitter about his choices, he seeks a woman who will join herself to him in name only. Desperate to escape her abusive stepfather, Sara Donaldson accepts a long-distance marriage proposal from Nathan. Because of her stepfather's tyranny, Sara finds herself intimidated by her new husband. Added to this are the lies she told in her initial communications with Nathan. Will Sara find the courage to make her marriage work? Will the faith she pretends to have become real in her heart?

Download or read book Kansas Brides pbk written by Denise Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four novels: Stranger's Bride; Never a Bride; Bittersweet Bride and His Brothers Bride.

Download or read book American Child Bride written by Nicholas L. Syrett and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls--the most common underage spouses--Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial period to the present, chronicling the debates and moral panics related to these unions. Although the frequency of child marriages has declined since the early twentieth century, Syrett reveals that the practice was historically far more widespread in the United States than is commonly thought. It also continues to this day: current estimates indicate that 9 percent of living American women were married before turning eighteen. By examining the legal and social forces that have worked to curtail early marriage in America--including the efforts of women's rights activists, advocates for children's rights, and social workers--Syrett sheds new light on the American public's perceptions of young people marrying and the ways that individuals and communities challenged the complex legalities and cultural norms brought to the fore when underage citizens, by choice or coercion, became husband and wife.

Download or read book Kansas Weddings written by Kim Vogel Sawyer and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear John; That Wilder Boy; Promising Angela.

Download or read book His Brother s Bride written by Denise Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After learning that Thomas Manning, whom she had planned to marry, had died two days ago, Emily Wagner agrees to marry Thomas' brother, Cade Manning, a widower with a five-year-old son.

Download or read book Seven Brides for Seven Mail Order Husbands Romance Collection written by Susan Page Davis and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven women seek husbands to help them rebuild a Kansas town. Meet seven of Turtle Springs, Kansas’, finest women who are determined to revive their small town after the War Between the States took most of its men. . .and didn’t return them. The ladies decide to advertise for husbands and devise a plan for weeding out the riff raff. But how can they make the best practical choices when their hearts cry out to be loved? Abigail’s Proposal by Cynthia Hickey When her father never returned from the war, Abigail Melton stepped into his role as town mayor. The town needs men, and she needs a husband—and she has a big idea how to find both—but her first duty is to hire a sheriff. And drifter Josiah Ingram will do just fine. The Kidnapped Groom by Susan Page Davis Riding through the Flint Hills on his way to Dodge City, cowboy Sam Cayford finds himself the kidnapping victim of two children. When he meets their lovely mother, Maggie Piner—whom the kids insist he should marry—Sam starts to question God’s plans versus his own. A Clean Slate by Susanne Dietze Schoolmarm Roberta “Birdy” Green won’t marry any of the prospective grooms flocking to town. After losing her fiancé in the war, the only love her broken heart can bear is for her students. But then she takes on a new pupil—Drew Cooper, one of the gentlemen drawn to Kansas by the advertisement for grooms. Sunshine of My Heart by Darlene Franklin Debbie Barker longs to bring beauty to her new home on the prairie, where her family moved after the war, and seeks a husband to help her father run the ranch. Zack Gage returned home from the war to a life in ruins—family dead and business bankrupted. He answers the mail-order husband ad to seek a fresh start. But neither Debbie nor Zeke know what they are doing when it comes to ranching. . .or love. Come What May by Patty Smith Hall Chardy Stevens is at the end of her rope. Between running her late father’s store and tending to her four younger brothers, she barely has time to breathe, much less look for a husband to help her. The boys scare off most of her prospects and throw Chardy together with her childhood friend Luke, a disabled veteran who seeks her happiness above his own. Dime Novel Suitor by Carrie Fancett Pagels Widow Caroline Kane is the proprietor of a restaurant and inn—and responsible for her five teenaged siblings. But she has no plans of finding a mail-order groom. Britisher Barden Granville IV is on a “cowboy holiday” when he finds himself flat broke in Kansas. When he answers an old “help wanted” ad, Caroline misconstrues Barden is there as a potential husband. Will the beautiful and fiesty widow cause the new vicar to make Kansas his home? Louder than Words by Gina Welborn After years of writing abolitionist pamphlets and chronicling soldier life during the war, J.R. Lockhart is bored and jumps at the opportunity to investigate an advertisement for husbands for an article in Godey’s Lady’s Book. Jane Ransome would like to help the charming-but-oblivious-to-life-out-West man chronicle the courtships developing in town, but she has her own husband to find—one who will fit perfectly in her picket-fenced Kansas home.

Download or read book Cozy in Kansas written by Nancy Mehl and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College student Ivy Towers has definite plans for her future. But when her great-aunt Bitty is found dead inside her rare bookstore, Ivy must travel back to a place and a past she thought she'd left behind.

Download or read book Never A Bride written by Denise Hunter and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God either has a cruel streak or a peculiar sense of humor. At least that is what "Plain" Jane Cooper thinks. Why else would He have stuck her smack in the middle of the beautiful Cooper family? And why did she have to get duped into minding house for that exasperating Luke Reiley?Luke has his own set of problems. His brother just married the woman Luke loves, and they will be living in his home after their honeymoon. With all of that to worry about, Luke might as well throw his energy into what he does best: teasing. And nobody is more fun to tease that the stiff, starchy Jane Cooper. How will Jane handle this outrageous relationship.

Download or read book Victoria written by E. E. Burke and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria, Bride of Kansas, is the 34th book in the unprecedented 50-book series American Mail-order Brides: Jilted society miss Victoria Lowell travels over a thousand miles to marry an Irish suitor whose romantic letters won her heart. Upon arriving in Kansas, she discovers her betrothed has little enthusiasm for marriage and less Christmas spirit than Scrooge. Divorced shopkeeper David O'Brien wants nothing to do with matters of the heart. However, his young daughter needs a mother, and his meddling sister believes she's done him a favor by corresponding with a mail-order bride. Reluctantly, he holds off on revealing the author of the letters, giving Victoria until Christmas Eve to prove she can manage his troubled child. When the truth finally comes out, it will take more than a miracle to deliver a happily-ever-after in time for Christmas. Buy Victoria for Christmas, and why not purchase the sequel, Santa's Mail-Order Bride.

Download or read book A Bride s Portrait of Dodge City Kansas written by Erica Vetsch and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaze into Dodge City, where a deputy and a photographer join forces to catch a murderer. Will they flush out the killer before becoming his next victims?

Download or read book Wonder Filled Weddings written by Michael Nolte, Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 35 years Michael J Nolte has been planning weddings. In Wonder-Filled Weddings he gives practical advice in addition to featuring his weddings that are guaranteed to inspire.

Download or read book Never a Bride written by Denise Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it really love when Jane wonders if the marriage proposal she's received is Luke's reaction to the love he just lost--Jane's own sister?

Download or read book Heart of Summer written by Lenny Davis and published by Sherman Lee. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Summer (The Brides of Courage, Kansas, Book 4) – A Sweet Western Mail Order Groom Romance! Never judge a thing by its appearance! And especially not a person! Once stunning, but now broken by the attack on her person last year, young Vicki Smith doesn't entertain any hopes of ever attracting a man. When Joshua Piperis, a young man from New York City, agrees to become her mail order groom, she wonders what his motives are. Why doesn't he court a normal lady? Surely New York is full of eligible young women. Why didn't he choose one of them? Why her? Does this seemingly nice man carry secrets with him? Joshua Piperis doesn't put much stock in a lady's pretty face anymore, not after what he'd gone through. Instead, he prizes inner values more than outward beauty. He doesn't mind that his bride is damaged, as long as she is a good person. But just before he arrives in Courage, Kansas, he gets cold feet… When the two meet—under dramatic circumstances—both are in for quite a surprise. Rated G. Please check out the other books in the series. They are: Once Upon the Prairie, Book 1 She Came one Winter, Book 2 A Bride in Spring, Book 3 Heart of Summer, Book 4 Molly in Fall, Book 5 mail order bride, christian mail order brides western romance, mail order brides of the west, clean cowboy romance, clean sweet western romance, clean historical romance, christian inspirational western frontier romance, mail order bride historical romance