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Mary Cartwright lost her husband, Joshua on the third day of the battle of Gettysburg, days before her twentieth birthday. For the next twelve years, she was a teacher in the public schools of Hagerstown, MD.

Her friend, Minerva shocked the ladies of the Zion Church Ladies Sewing Circle by advertising for a husband, and then going off to Texas...

This is western romance novella about two young people searching for happiness.


Josiah Moore is a twenty two year old man, whose wife died of diphtheria, leaving him with a two year old daughter. He is devastated and not knowing where to turn. Perfection is not good enough for him. He lashes out at everyone, swearing at them and belittling...

The Bible says there is “…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.

Martha Sanders is no stranger to heartbreak. When pneumonia claims her husband, she cries, wears black, and mourns. Now she is ready to put her widow’s weeds away and start a new life. A life with a family. A husband. Children. Luke Hastings.

When...

Mail Order Brides came into being after The War Between The States saw thousands of young men killed, leaving the eastern part of the United States with a severe shortage of eligible young bachelors.
At the same time, there was a shortage of unmarried women on the western frontier. The Matrimonial News was a newspaper specializing in ads placed...

This is a novella and Not a novel. It is a western romance set in the 1870 time frame in the area surrounding the fictional town of Cimmaron, Texas.
The closest known town to Cimmaron is San Antonio.

Trace Atkins was wounded at Gettysburg in the Civil War. When the war ended, he made his way back to the Rocking A ranch in Cimmaron, Texas and...

A western romance novella, about 33,000 words. Jedadiah left his home and the farm his father expected him to take over to seek his fortune in the gold fields of Wyoming. He was a failure mining, and homesteaded a farm outside of Laramie. Under the tutelage of his friend and neighbor, he added to his land holdings. Sustained by the success of...

She came to Laramie as a mail order bride for Will Hastings. As she stepped from the stagecoach, she was grabbed by a drunken cowboy. Her husband-to-be tried to intervene and was gunned down in front of her.

Left with $73 and her husband-to-be face down, and lifeless in the dirt street of Laramie, she was now faced with a choice of returning to...