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This is a western romance short story of just over twenty-two thousand words. The sexual heat level of this book is less than 1 out of 5.
This story is a total departure from any of the previous western romances. There are no sex descriptions in this book that go beyond kisses. Bedroom doors are kept closed.
It is a five part sequel of Amanda’s...

A western romance novella of about 28,000 words
It is set in the 1876 time frame.
In Elmira, New York, Amanda Taylor catches the man who has courted her
for over five years, cheating on her. As a thirty year old school
teacher, she is about to resign herself to the life of a spinster school
teacher, when she chances upon a copy of The Matrimonial...

Charlotte Jenkins is the oldest of four girls, two of which are married. At twenty-five and unmarried in post-Civil War Maryland, her prospects for marriage are dim. When her mother started eyeing widowers and men as old as her father as candidates to be her husband, Lottie decided to take matters into her own hands.
An ad in the Baltimore Sun...

Carter Palmer was a young doctor fresh out of Georgetown University Medical School in Georgetown and a resident program less than two years when the Civil War broke out in 1861. He decided the Army of the Potomac, a division of the Union Army would offer him more experience in the expected short duration of the war than he would gain in several...

The Civil War raged from 1861 to 1865. It decimated an entire American generation of young men. An estimated 750,000 casualties from both sides, with the majority of those from the more populous North. The rural South fatalities are put between 250,000 and 260,000.

An inordinate number of widows were created, in addition to reducing the number...

In Search of Love: The Story Of A Mail Order Bride, is a story of a young couple looking for love. Katerina Hauser, the daughter of German immigrants, lives in Columbus, Ohio. Katerina is pushed hard by her mother to study for the teaching profession. She finishes Columbus Teaching College, which will later be absorbed into the Ohio State...

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...