Mail Order Brides of the Old West — Susan Hart

Jordyn's Reluctant New Love, is the emotional story of a woman who starts out by lying when she begins a correspondence with a rancher in Oregon who has advertised for a mail order bride. All she wants to do is get out west, learn how to run a ranch, then own one herself--just like she and her now deceased father had planned. Looking For Salisa With The Blue Eyes, is all about a young cowboy who passes by a stagecoach on its way into town, and sees a group of ragamuffin kids, plus a young woman with a pair of the most startling blue eyes he's ever seen. When he gets back into town he cannot find her anywhere, gives up, and decides to place an ad for a mail order bride. I Am Loved, Said Claire To Jed, is a perfect story about both love of God, and a good woman. When Jed asked his sister in New York City to send him a good woman to marry, he would never have expected who arrived on the train within the week. He knew she'd be refined and a lady, but he couldn't imagine it would be a black woman named Claire. Preacher Man And Dinah With The Dark Hair, is a love story about a Civil War vet who is a preacher, and who decides to settle in a Baptist church in Phoenix, in the Arizona Territory. He's there over a decade and feeling quite lonely when an aunt from back east recommends that he meet up with a young lady she has under her wing. He agrees to meet them and Dinah goes to Phoenix. A Leap Of Faith is about a widower who was left with a traumatized daughter who cannot see, hear or speak. After watching her mother die from a random gunshot wound, the little girl withdrew into a world of her own, leaving her father unable to cope or understand how he can save her. He decides to advertise for a mail order bride -- not one to marry but a teacher to help his daughter get better.