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When the Burgert family moves to Seattle in 1852, Kathryn is convinced her father has destroyed her life. The backwoods settlement offers none of the comforts and culture she loves in San Francisco. She cares nothing for the new sawmill the townsfolk are so excited about. That is, until she meets Jason, a lumberjack with dreams for a bright future. As she comes to know Jason, Kathryn can't help catching his vision.
2) Faith
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Brides of the West 1872 volume 1
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With the matrimonial prospects in a little Michigan town nonexistent, nineteen-year-old Faith and her two sisters answer an ad for mail-order brides. Before she knows it, she's on her way to Deliverance, Texas, to marry wealthy rancher Nicholas Shepherd.
3) Glory
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Brides of the West volume 4
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"On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glory reluctantly joins a wagon train of mail-order brides heading for Denver City. But her backwoods upbringing and fierce independence put her at odds with the other girls--and with the rules Jackson Lincoln Montgomery, the handsome wagon master, sets for their traveling party. Jackson had his doubts about seeing five young women safely to Colorado, and adding Glory to his charge only makes his job all the harder...especially...
4) Patience
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Brides of the West 1872 volume 6
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"When a kidnapper snatches Patience Smith in a case of mistaken identity, her life takes an unexpected turn. Lost in the mountains of Colorado, she manages to escape her captor only to stumble onto an abandoned mining dugout and a ragged orphan boy. Denver City sheriff Jay Longer has been on Patience's trail since the moment she was taken. While he has no desire to force the hot-tempered young woman to return with him, he can't just abandon her, not...
5) Hope
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"Mail-order bride Hope Kallahan is not amused when her stagecoach is waylaid by a bunch of bumbling outlaws. The feisty beauty is puzzled by the oddball in the group--the disarmingly kind Grunt Lawson. She doesn't know that Grunt is really Dan Sullivan, a government agent sent to infiltrate the gang on what was supposed to be his last assignment. As Hope intimidates hardened criminals into cleaning house and talks Dan into rescuing her, Dan believes...
6) Ruth
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Brides of the West 1872 volume 5
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"Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from a seventy-year-old suitor. Faced with the prospect of marriage to the persistent old codger, Ruth throws caution to the wind and decides to head for Wyoming Territory, where freedom and independence await. Her only hope is to seek help from an unwilling protector: Dylan McCall. U.S. Marshal Dylan McCall is trying desperately to get to Wyoming before winter sets in. But when he finds himself saddled with...
8) June
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"Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. She soon learns that not everyone approves of her fiance's vision for an elaborate tabernacle that would befit God's glory--not even his best friend, Parker Sentell. The surly lumberjack favors supporting the local orphanage, and while caring for the orphans...