Tessa O’Connor is tired of the high-society lifestyle she leads. When her parents continue to pressure her to marry, she decides that the only way she can choose her own fate is to sneak off in the middle of the night as a mail-order Bride.
Meanwhile, Dean Samuels is struggling to care for his two young children while managing his ranch and business and mourning the loss of his wife. His brother jokingly offers to write an ad for a mail-order bride to help him. When Tessa shows up, he never imagines that he might actually have feelings for her.
I am so glad that I have found another great mail-order Bride series. I can’t wait to read the entire series!
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Mia DeAngelis made a change that would affect the rest of her life and her nephew Ben’s. However, she knew that it would be for the best.
Deciding to move to Compass Cove, where her grandmother lived, felt like starting over. She took a job as a college librarian in a sleepy little beach town, where she knew that Ben would shine. The two move in with Mia’s grandmother and plan to make a life for themselves.
Adam Miller, who retired from the NFL after an injury, returns to Compass Cove to lead a quieter, purposeful life. He becomes a coach at the college, so that football can still be a part of his life.
They couldn’t be more different. A quiet librarian raising her sister’s child and a fast football star looking for a chance at a slower-paced life. However, when the two of them meet, everyone knows that they belong together. The two of them just need to realize it themselves!
If you are looking for a sweet romantic read, you should start with Then Came You by Jeannie Moon. I couldn’t wait until Mia and Adam realized how perfect they were together, with little Ben by their side!
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In 1968, Sarah finds herself an orphan with nowhere to turn. She has vowed to take care of her younger sister, Lucy, and will do whatever she has to keep her safe.
After moving in with their aunt, a tragic event leaves them with even fewer choices. Either Sarah can find someone to marry, or she works hard day and night in order to survive. She chooses marriage to a man who she thinks will take care of her dear Lucy.
But marriage isn’t anything like she expected.
Now, Ellen believes that life can’t get any better. She is married to an amazing man. They have one daughter together, and Ellen has an older daughter from her first marriage. But when her husband’s daughter from his first marriage comes to stay for an extended period of time, Annabelle and Ellen clash over everything!
They eventually find a way to bond over a death certificate that was hidden in the attic. They both decide to figure out all they can about the young lady, Sarah, who died. Another great read by Kate Hewitt.
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In 1939, Alice falls in love and marries a kind-hearted vicar named David. She leaves everything behind to move into a draughty vicarage in the beautiful, remote village of Goswell, Cumbria. However, she is determined to make a good life for her new husband and herself.
But war changes things, like it typically does. David decides to leave for war, to do his part. Alice is devastated and unsure of her new role as the vicar’s wife. But everything changes when evacuees are brought into the village looking for homes. Alice finds herself bringing home a young girl named Vera, and will do whatever she can to protect this girl.
In the present day, Jane and her family move into a vicarage in the middle of nowhere, in a small community called Goswell. Used to New York City, Jane is overwhelmed by the change.
That all changes when Jane finds a note written by Alice. She is determined to find out everything she can about Alice and what her life was like when she lived in the same house. She finds out that, though Alice didn’t change the world, she led a good life in a small community, raising a daughter and building a life.
I am not really a historical fiction reader, but this collection really called to me. I like reading about the two different times, and am always waiting to find the connection between the two women! I highly recommend this series to anyone who loves a good mystery!
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As someone who loves reading Amish novels, I have been collecting a few new authors that I thought it was time to try. I decided to start with Amish Celebrations by Beth Wiseman.
In it, I read four short stories centered on celebrations in the Amish community, such as rumschpringe, baptism, weddings, and Christmas.
In The Gift of Sisters, we meet Hannah and Rachel, twins who are almost sixteen and ready to enjoy their rumschpringe. However, they couldn’t be more different. Hannah is outgoing and attracts attention with her beauty, while Rachel is shy and can be considered withdrawn.
When Abraham Stoltzfus arrives in their community, both girls decide he is the man they want to marry. The girls end up fighting each other over a man, and it is a page-turner to figure out which girl will end up with the new man in town!
In A New Beginning, we meet Rebecca and Noah, who are set to be married in a few weeks. One night out changes everything for the couple, as Noah begins to have doubts about baptism and marriage.
When the couple finally comes face-to-face again, they have to decide what they both want. Can they forgive each other and move on? Or will Noah end up leaving the faith and the Amish?
In A Perfect Plan, we meet Priscilla King, who has to have everything perfect! When Chester Lapp finally asks her to marry him, she can’t wait to begin planning her special day.
However, as things start to fall apart in the weeks before the wedding, will both Priscilla and Chester have a change of heart? Will they learn to trust God and know that everything will work out in the end? Or will Priscilla give up on true love because she is worrying too much?
In A Christmas Miracle, we meet Mary, overwhelmed with her five children. She struggles to take care of her young brood and the house. Both she and her husband are frustrated because they see other big families that seem to have everything figured out.
She reaches out for help from her in-laws, but they are unable to help at all! In fact, they seem to avoid the family as much as possible!
Other than that, she has no one. When an elderly man in a red suit and his sidekick elf befriend Mary, she feels like she is getting a Christmas miracle until her husband stops it. He doesn’t want any help from Englishers. When everything goes downhill again, he has to decide whether he can accept the help his wife so desperately needs.
I loved this collection so much that I started another collection by Wiseman. You will also enjoy them!
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Hannah Frank’s sister ran off as a mail-order bride to get away from her greedy grandmother. Now that Hannah is of age to marry, she is thinking about doing the same. She accepts an offer from the odd Mr. Jones to take her out west and find her a husband.
Soon, she finds herself married to Victor Bates, a kind and handsome man who has a young baby daughter. She is happy with the match, knowing that he is a good man, though he is hiding something from her. This makes it hard for her to open up to him, knowing that she isn’t sure what he is hiding.
When she finds out about his secret, both of them argue in a way that they never have before. Will they find their way back to each other? Or will this tear them apart?
I have flown through these mail-order bride novels, like Baby’s New Mother by Faith Johnson, and you will find yourself enjoying any of Johnson’s novels!
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Kate had only loved one man, from the time that they were children until now. When he married someone else, she didn’t know what to think. He promised her that he would marry her when she grew up, but before she did, she found herself watching him with his new wife.
So, in A Simple Choice by Samantha Price, she did what she had to do. She left the Amish faith and became an Englisher, well as much as she could. When he asks her to come back to her faith and her family, how can she say no?
Then, she has a chance at love, but she is too scared to take it! Will Kate be able to open her heart again?
After so many heartbreaking reads, I needed a change of pace. I knew when I opened a book by Price, I wouldn’t be disappointed. It was just what I needed!
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Horse-loving Amish Annie (in Annie’s Faith by Samantha Price) would prefer the great outdoors to work in the house. However, that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t want to get married. In fact, she has her eyes on someone, but she is not sure that he thinks about her the same way.
She thought that he did, until Liz moved in with them. Liz left the Amish faith to become English. When she found herself without a place to live, she moved in with Annie’s family, wearing makeup and revealing clothing. Annie watches the guy she likes staring at Liz, and just knows that she has lost him.
Will Annie ever find love with the one that she likes? Or will he choose Liz even though she is never going to be Amish again? I couldn’t wait to finish the book so that I could figure out if Annie will get her happily ever after!
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In A Small Secret by Samantha Price, we meet an Amish woman, Sarah, who is Amish to her core. However, when she finds herself in love with an Englisher, she finds herself at a crossroads in her life. After trying to run away together, she finds herself pregnant and back at home. Though John still writes to her, their phone calls don’t go as well. When she finds out that he is engaged, she is unsure what to do.
So, she has to make plans for herself and her baby. Unsure about what she should do, she is torn between bringing shame on her family and leaving the Amish world. And in the process, she learns even more about God and his forgiveness.
Another great Price book that you won’t be able to put down!
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In Size 14 is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot, Heather is back at it, except she has gained a few more pounds! She is still working as an assistant dorm director at New York College when another death makes people refer to her dorm as Death Dorm.
Though she tries to stay out of it, when a popular cheerleader’s head is found in the kitchen of the dormitory, it is hard when nobody can really figure out where the rest of the body is (or who did it). So, Heather starts snooping, as only she can do.
It also helps her deal with her life. Her ex-con father shows up on her doorstep. Her ex-fiance won’t stop calling her, even though he is about to marry someone else. Plus, she can’t really deal with the feelings that she has for her roommate.
However, Heather has to be careful, or she might be next in the line of murders in the building!
Another great read by Cabot. I can’t wait to finish the series and see what Heather gets up to next!
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