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.

Julie Garwood's beloved Clayborne Brides series concludes in the steamy Western romance One Red Rose, available for the first time digitally!
New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood returns to her roots in One Red Rose, the conclusion to her racy historical fiction series the Clayborne Brides. First introduced in her beloved New York Times bestseller For the Roses, the Clayborne brothers of Blue...

Every so often that story comes along that reminds us of what it's like to experience love for the first time-against the odds, when you least expect it, and with such passion that it completely changes you forever.
An unexpected discovery takes eighty-four-year-old Lily Davis Woodward to 1945, and the five days that forever changed her life. Married for only a week before her husband was sent to fight in WWII, Lily is anxious for his return,

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When Tucker Houston becomes a schoolteacher out West, she never expected to encounter Lucas Steele, a handsome wagonmaster who would soon steal her heart away, but when a ruthless, savage man joins the wagon, Tucker must fight for her new love.

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...

Hard Luck, Alaska—a Town that Needs Women!
Location: 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150 (mostly men)—but growing! Because the O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign to bring women to Hard Luck!
Sawyer O'Halloran— He's the middle brother. Pilot and part owner of Midnight Sons. And, if the truth be told, he's not entirely in favor...

1862. After facing desperate heartache and loss in the London slums, Mercy agrees to join a bride ship, the Tynemouth. Wealthy and titled, Joseph takes to the sea as the ship's surgeon, hoping to escape the pain of losing his family. He has no intention of settling down, but when Mercy becomes his assistant they must fight against a forbidden love. As hundreds of single men congregate along the shore of Vancouver Island, eager to claim a bride from...

In this fifth installment of the bestselling Mail Order Bride series, two young couples seek freedom and love amidst slavery-rich Charleston, South Carolina.
When nineteen-year-old Benjamin arrives from South Africa, he is scheduled to be sold into slavery—but is set free by a Christian who takes him in as a paid worker. The man's son, Dan Johnson, befriends Benjamin, and the two make plans to start a cattle ranch in Texas. With bold...

Romance and revulsion, distance and determination frame a story that spans the continent in the late 1800s. McClain Reardon had saved ten-year-old Rya's life when the fugitive John Wilkes Booth held her at gunpoint in Virginia. Reuniting with McClain years later on the wagon trail to California, lovely Rya falls in love with her lifelong hero, and they plan to get married. But there is one dark shadow on this bright future: a sore old suitor's merciless...

Set in 1880s Colorado, a mail order bride is full of doubts when another mail order bride arrives to marry the same man.