Central Kansas Library System

Katie Russell loves working as a telephone operator in Mercy Falls, California. But since childhood she has been expected to marry well. Her family presses for an engagement to wealthy bachelor Bartholomew Foster and though he doesn't stir her heart, their engagement promises a secure financial future. Working the phone lines one evening, Katie overhears a chilling exchange between her friend Eliza and a familiar male voice. Katie soon learns that...

"Micah Bishop is rescued in the Mohave Desert and hired to escort two dozen brides to the mining town of Calico, but he soon finds that things are not as they seem"--

"Wedding bells are ringing in the community that gathers around Seattle's charming knitting shop, A Good Yarn. Lauren Elliott has waited years for her boyfriend, Todd, to propose. Knowing she can't put her future on hold, Lauren prepares to make a bold choice. Newly married to her second husband, Max, Bethanne Scranton is blissfully in love, but her cunning ex will do anything to win her back. Lydia Goetz, too, is wonderfully happy with her husband,...

After his father declares that the first of his sons to marry and produce a child will inherit his ranch, Rafe McKettrick finds himself beguiled by Emmeline Harding, his mail-order bride, despite the secrets he senses she hides.

"Wealthy Arabella Lawrence flees to British Columbia on a bride ship still wearing the scars of past mistakes. One of the few single women in the boomtown, she immediately has suitors, but she is determined not to find herself trapped again by a poor choice. Vying for her hand are two very different men. Lieutenant Richard Drummond is a gentleman in the Navy and is held in high esteem. Peter Kelly is the town's baker and has worked hard to build a...

"The McBride brothers are in for a matrimonial surprise when an enterprising woman answers their little sister's mail-order bride advertisement in this laugh-out-loud historical romance. As the oldest of the McBride siblings, Morgan had to be protector and shepherd since Ma died and Pa ran off. It hasn't always been easy, especially when his heart longs to roam on the trail. But now that his brother Kit is married and settled, the time is right for...

"Readers rabid for the sweet historical romances of Tracie Peterson and Tamara Alexander will flock to best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer's prairie-set heartwarmer of high society cast-off and the western town that welcomes her. Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal dealings, she finds herself forced into a role she never imagined:...

"Genieva Bankmans and Brevan McLean had agreed to a marriage of convenience when she responded to his advertisement for a wife. Yet even as their attraction to each other becomes stronger, secrets concerning the McLean family and land threaten their relationship and endanger their lives"--