Five Romances in the Old West — Susan Hart

Amanda And Cecil Get The Boot, is about a young man who takes the bullet for an older man and becomes paralyzed. Stricken with guilt, the older man takes the paralyzed one home and because he cannot remember how he became paralyzed, and the older man's daughter doesn't know the circumstances, the older man has to live under a self-imposed lie, which is tearing him apart. Mail Order Bride Margery Heads To California, is about a woman who has looked after her sick mother for years in Washington DC, but when she comes across a mysterious new booth in the market, she is persuaded to sign up for something that will change her life forever. Anna Loves Robert With The Green Eyes: When Anna found a wounded soldier under the big cottonwood tree, she could never have imagined how it would change her life forever; once she convinced her family to let her keep him. One man tells the story of how his parents met, what happened after that, and how much he learned from them. Sending for a mail order bride was probably his saving grace, as it was with his father. Abby And William And The Little Man, is about young Abby who just loves horses. She's out riding one day when she hears a thud and then a groan and then a mustang runs right past her and her mare. She finds out that the thud was the son of a neighboring rancher who she hasn't seen for years. When she looks into his gray eyes, she's hooked. At a barn dance, another young woman tells her some gossip, which casts doubts on William, and Abby cannot get the gossip to leave her every thought. William then disappears for weeks and Abby finds herself losing any hope of making the romance between them blossom, or even if William feels the same way about her. When he returns, they go for a ride and he tells her everything. A Patchwork Of Love is about a young woman escaping an abusive situation, a man trying to forget his past, and a train headed west to California in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Along the way, they find both each other, and a mystery. There is a lovely twisty ending to this story and the results of not judging a book by its cover.