Brides with Grit Books in Order

Mail-order bride Millie Donovan arrives in Kansas to learn her intended groom has died. Town marshal Adam Wilerson offers shelter for Millie and the little boy in her care, but violence in Clear Creek soon puts their fragile new start at risk.

Swedish-born cattlewoman Rania Hamner has learned not to trust men after years on the trail from Texas to Kansas. Rancher Jacob Wilerson wants her from the moment she rides into town, but danger from her past threatens any future together.

Widowed Cate Wilerson decides she is ready for a second marriage and already knows the man she wants. But when Isaac Connely's past resurfaces, old guilt and buried secrets stand between longtime friendship and long-delayed love.

After being humiliated at her own wedding, Boston-bred Cora Elison escapes to her family's Kansas ranch. She falls for Swedish cowboy Dagmar Hamner, but family pressure and a surprise groom from back East complicate everything.

Tough horsewoman Hilda Hamner buys a Kansas homestead with her race winnings and plans to build a ranch of her own. Then Noah Wilerson comes home to find his claim gone, and their clash over land turns into a stubborn, danger-filled courtship.

Engaged for years yet unsure of her future, Sarah Wilerson meets wounded former captain Marcus Brenner and sees a different life ahead. When she breaks with her safe choice, the two are suddenly tested by healing, duty, and a house full of children.

Divorced mother Darcie Robbins is hiding out on a Kansas ranch, looking for steady work and safety for her children. Drover Reuben Shepard understands loss, but a broken marriage from his own past could wreck their chance at becoming a family.

Helen Higby answers a marriage ad, only to discover her new groom is already married and wanted by the law. Stranded in Clear Creek with four daughters, she helps Ethan Paulson remake his family hotel, but his controlling mother is not ready for change.

Adventurous Bostonian Lorna Jantz comes west as a mail-order bride and is abandoned almost at once, pregnant and penniless. Clear Creek lawyer Lyle Elison helps her chase a swindler and untangle his own inheritance trouble, while both try not to fall in love.

Heavily pregnant widow Tina Martin is badly injured in a Texas train wreck and loses track of her children. Grieving trail boss Leif Hamner finds a newborn tied to the disaster, and their trip north to Kansas becomes a tender, secret-shadowed road to healing.

Faye Longoria arrives at a ranch with a baby, stolen train fare, and a past she would rather forget. Ranch foreman Rusty Tucker is drawn to her and little Violet, but fitting into family life proves harder than claiming a quick escape.

Amy Sanders flees a saloon job by disguising herself as her younger brother and traveling with a load of bulls to Kansas. At the Bar E Ranch, foreman Eli Fisher, who left his Amish community behind, becomes the one man who sees past her disguise and her bruised past.