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Maggie Falls Off A Train is about an independent Victorian woman who travels from London to New York, in order to get a business degree and run her father’s business back in the old country. She falls sick and is advised by a doctor to take a semester off from the university and recuperate in California. As she gets off the train she faints, and literally falls into Tom’s arms. She finds out later why he just happened to be at the train station at that very moment in time.

Haseloff's characters embody the fundamental values - honor, duty, courage, and family - that prevailed on the American frontier and were instilled in the young Haseloff by her own "heroes", her mother and her grandmother. Her stories, in a sense, dramatize how these values endure when challenged by the adversities and cruelties of frontier existence.

There’s nothing like a wedding to bring families together. And there’s no place like the Sugarloaf Ranch to throw a foot-stomping hoedown — even if it turns into a gun-blazing showdown. Smoke and Sally Jensen are delighted that their son Louis is marrying the lovely widow he met during a perilous stagecoach journey through the Donner Pass. The whole family welcomes the bride and her young son with open arms. In fact, everyone is invited to the party — even the handsome stranger who rescued Louis’s twin sister Denise from a runaway mustang.

Shaw's forte was her ability to create interesting casts of characters through whom and between whom she was able to develop a suspenseful and unpredictable interplay. This story is a good example of her character driven Western fiction.

When Smoke Jensen sees a gang of outlaws holding up a stagecoach, his gunfighter instincts take over and he storms in with guns blazing. He kills one of the gunmen, the rest scatter like the rats they are. Another notch on the sharpshooter's weathered grip. But the dead man is the brother of the notorious outlaw Gabe Briggs, and Briggs will want revenge....

The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad Browning goes by the name Kid Morgan - the Loner - and forged a growing reputation of his own. But in the midst of a fight for his life, the Kid discovered that he too was a father: of twins he'd never met. Now, the Kid heads back east to pierce a mystery guarded by murderous criminals for hire. Why is his ex-fiancée hiding his children from him? And why is this secret worth killing to keep?

When Knight Commander Cade Williams discovers that his wife, Gabrielle, is not truly dead, but held in some kind of arcane stasis between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead, he vows that nothing will stop him from freeing her soul from the prison surrounding her. But his vow is tested right from the start when an old friend calls on him to help protect the city of Boston from the ancient scourge that threatens to destroy it, leaving Cade with a heart-breaking choice.

In a near future world on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a mysterious woman brokers an anonymous pact between two men for the older man to inhabit the younger man’s body when he dies in exchange for a fortune and access to vast knowledge. The consequences for both men evolve over the ensuing years, while the covert agency behind the mind swapping technology seeks to use it to rule the world.

The Maker Movement represents a dramatic shift in the democratization of design and manufacturing. Advancements in new technologies such as 3D printing and laser cutting are putting powerful tools once only available to large institutions like NASA in the hands of millions of people worldwide. This rapid pace of change opens up new possibilities that were never before imaginable, placing strong emphasis on resourcefulness as the path to technical competence.

Going to Meet Lee is about a newspaper editor dissatisfied with his life in the Big Apple. He decides to head to Nebraska, where a family he barely remembers has offered to provide him with the ranch life, plus a daughter whose name he doesn't know, to perhaps become his mail order bride. There are two hearts to be healed in this western romance.

Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era.

Becky, a widow who was abused by her former husband, is weary of love. Luke, a cowboy from Texas is seeking a love that he once had. He is a God-fearing man who lost his wife and children in a wagon accident years ago. They have both grown accustomed to their lonely lifestyles and lack of companionship. God begins to work through them, and leads them to begin a correspondence via a mail order bride advertisement.

Almost Missing the Boat: A Victorian Christian Mail Order Bride Romance is about a woman living in London who is to be married off to a man of her mother's choice; a baron she has no feelings for. She runs off to the docks hoping to escape the situation, but sees him by the ticket office, searching for her. Making a last minute leap to a ship, with no idea where she'll end up, she puts her faith in God that she's made the right decision.

Maybelle was a widow of several years seeking companionship and love. She feels God leading her to respond to a mail order bride advertisement from a cowboy in California. After exchanging many letters and discussing their love of Christ, they agree to meet. On her way to the man's ranch in California, Maybelle is physically assaulted by a despicable man. She keeps this incident a secret from the cowboy.

Losing his wife years, Wes begins to think he will not find a woman to love or take care of his children. God soon compels him to place an advertisement for a mail order bride, which Amish widow Hannah responds to. Wes is a strong, God-fearing Christian man. They begin a correspondence and feel God’s love emanating through their letters to one another.

The Cowboy's Mail Order Bride: A Prostitute's Chance at Love tells the story of Ester, a former prostitute from New York who gets a second chance at life and love. She responds to a mail order bride advertisement and meets Henry Harris, a strong cowboy who lives with his young son on a large ranch. After spending much time with the man and his loving son, Ester is soon proposed to. It is then she realizes that she must reveal her past life and transgressions to the unsuspecting man.

A wonderful story about an entrepreneur in old Montana, Weston B. Freeman. He has a checkered and colorful and sometimes sordid past but he finally wants to settle down - and he’s lonely. He advertises for a mail order bride but it’s a long wait, until a woman from England shows up at his bar unannounced. She’s attracted to him immediately and he to her, but a little later a few things surface from his past, then his present, that may throw their arrangement into utter confusion.

Mail Order Bride: The Widow Turns The Montana Rancher’s Hardened Heart, presents the story of a widow with a new baby decides to leave her small town and travel to Montana to be the wife of a Montana man she has never met. Her three children in tow, two of which are twin freed slaves, she immediately runs into a heap of trouble as soon as she arrives; meeting the rancher and his bitter son.

This wonderful eight story Christian Western Mail Order Bride audiobook collection, contains the titles listed below, and, within this collection, you will find a variety of characters who find their soon-to-be significant other in a variety of ways, but always with the involvement of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Please enjoy this labor of love!

Oregon Trail Journey after The Civil War, is the story of a southern woman and her older brother, striking out for the West to escape the hardships of the South after the Civil War. She didn't want to leave her home but not wanting to be left isolated, she went with him. The wagon train along the Oregon Trail is led by a seasoned veteran of the War, on the opposite side. Romance develops but the brother is still bitter about the south losing the war.