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Small-town girl Hazel Lynn Morgan has survived the dull farm life in Ohio by letting her imagination soar. Reading has been her savior, and yet, escaping the quiet life as a mail order bride could be just the excitement she’s looking for. But the Texan cattle rancher she’s intended for has a secret that could ruin everything and a friend who could be their making...or tear them apart forever.

If you are starting to forget things and feel a reduced ability to manage your professional and personal life, this book is for you. The irony is that we never noticed how we breathe; we can only notice our breath when it runs fast or very slow. We can survive without food and water for a few days, but we can not survive more than three minutes without breathing.

Is it possible to outrun your destiny? These four brides are determined to find out. Four brides on four inspirational quests towards freedom and love. Can they outwit their pasts? Is true love finally within their grasp?

Hazel is planning her first Christmas with Heath and their wedding. She’s also plotting to help John, Heath’s best friend and partner find a love of his own. The problem is, John is already in love…with Hazel. It will take John a wild ride across Texas and a gunfight alongside desperate men to realize that what he needed wasn’t necessarily what he thought he wanted. But is it too late?

In 1870, Hazel Lynn Morgan was a girl right on the verge of becoming a woman. She lives in a small town on a farm in Ohio, where nothing new or exciting ever happens. She has survived this long by reading books about exotic places and using her imagination, or what her Ma has termed, her “Magical Thinking”. Will a simple mail-order bride ad placed by a cattle rancher in Texas named Heath Key change Hazel’s life for the better? Or will the secret that Heath is hiding threaten to ruin both of their lives?

Since losing her husband to a fatal illness one winter, Susan Taylor has done her best to keep her farm afloat - including taking a loan out from the bank. But it seems that all her efforts have come to nothing, and Susan is now facing the cold reality that she is about to lose the farm. The only option she seems to have left is to pack up her life in Daisy Creek, leave her home, and start over somewhere new with her children. But just as her world seems to be crumbling around her, Edward Finnegan suddenly appears in her life.

Logan Monson is satisfied with his life in Birch River. His business as a blacksmith is thriving, and he has settled well into his home…. The only thing he is still missing is a family to share it all with. As many around him find partners and love of their own, Logan decides to follow their example as well.

Wesley Baker has brought more than just his hopes with him to Iron Creek—he carries his half-broken heart in tow. Once, he had traveled to meet the woman he hoped to marry, only to discover that her existence had been a con. Since then, Wesley managed to pick up what was left of his life and shattered heart and find his way to the small town of Iron Creek, where he hopes to establish a bakery of his own. Wesley is determined not to make the same mistakes again—but as those around him continue to find love through mail-order brides, Wesley decides to risk his heart one last time.

After suffering a permanent injury from an ambush and losing mobility of one of his legs, Andrew Cable has lost all hopes for a happy future for himself. Now, as he is forced to rely on his mother and his brother, Jonny, to care for him, Andrew doubts his life could be any more pathetic. But when Jonny advertises on his behalf with hopes of finding him a mail-order bride, Andrew realizes that he was wrong. The woman seems just as determined to escape her own situation in life. So, he decides to help her do just that—while also giving his brother a taste of his own medicine.

For Carl Hennigan, Iron Creek is more than just a town—it is a chance. His chance to start over. To live a life of his own. To teach and do what makes his heart happy. As Carl settles in Iron Creek, he can’t help thinking that his new life wants for nothing—except perhaps somebody to share it with. Just as Carl is about to take the chance and advertise for a wife, he finds another listing from a young woman. Her replies intrigue him, as does the fact that she keeps her full identity hidden. But could there be more connecting them than Carl realizes?

As the oddball in the family and the eldest daughter of a renowned doctor, Gina has always wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. The men around her refuse to accept her ambitions and hard-earned qualifications, and Gina knows she will never achieve her dream in a small-minded society like Richmond, Virginia.

All men are the same - smug, deceitful, and not worth her time or trust. Why should this one be any different? Life for a beautiful actress in a travelling gypsy caravan is not all glitter and roses. After the womanizing scoundrel that headlines the show toyed with her heart until it broke, Caitlyn learned that no one in this world is worth trusting. Now all she dreams of doing is leaving the caravan and escaping for a normal life - peaceful and debt-free.

Sometimes, even fate needs a little nudge out the door. Billy Fox is content with his life in Daisy Creek, living the work-driven life of a bachelor - unlike his eldest brother, Roy, who is married with two children. But Roy is less than satisfied with his brother’s situation, believing that it is time for Billy to settle down and build a family of his own. And so Roy advertises in Billy’s place - for a mail-order bride.

If you’re not willing to take a chance, you’ll never know what could have been. After losing his wife to a horrific forest fire, Landen Clayborn is looking to start over. So, when the mayor of Daisy Creek offers him the chance to start up a new restaurant in town, Landen is eager to accept. With sorrow behind him and his restaurant beginning to flourish, Landen is moving forward - and any ideas of love and remarrying are the furthest things from his mind.

With her family in Pennsylvania struggling, Quincy knows that it is up to her to marry well and solve their money issues. Becoming a mail-order bride seems to be the quickest way to the altar, and when wealthy rancher Willy Powers reaches out to her, Quincy hopes that all her troubles will finally be solved.

As a female doctor in a world where superstition is common, Greta has had to fight against the ignorance of both strangers and her family in order to fulfill her dreams. From being dubbed a witch doctor who practices voodoo to facing the disapproval of her parents—even after she has earned her degree and established a medical practice of her own, Greta knows that her only chance to be taken seriously will come from starting over someplace new. So, when she finds Nate’s advertisement for a mail-order bride, Greta is hopeful that she may have finally found that chance.

After spending eight years in jail, Elias Groves is struggling to make a life for himself…. After all, there aren’t many people willing to hire someone convicted of bank robbery. No matter how many times he moves and attempts a fresh start, Elias can’t escape his past, and unable to find stable work, the idea of a wife and a family seems to be slipping further and further from his reach. When his friend suggests perusing advertisements in the paper to find a woman looking for a husband, he’s not convinced.

How could she ever marry if it wasn’t for true love? Although the belle of the season with several suitors all vying for her hand in marriage, Samantha is restless. Caught between her parents' expectations and her own desire to marry for love, Samantha finds solace caring for her family’s horses, her one true passion.

Jonny Cable isn’t like his twin brother. Andy might have chosen to settle down and marry, but Jonny has a duty to fulfill in the army. It shouldn’t matter that he sometimes yearns for a different life—one where he can stay in one place and make a simple living running a hotel. Or that he should long for companionship like his brother has with his own lovely wife.

In 1882, Daisy Creek was a small town with a dwindling economy, but for Jill Graythorn, it whispered a promise of hope. Raised in a Boston orphanage, Jill continues to have nightmares about the fire that killed her family, and she still has the scars to remind her of her troubled past. Desperate for a brighter future, she responds to a mail-order bride ad, and soon, the deputy of Daisy Creek is her shimmer of light in the darkness.