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When she arrives and discovers her brother is running the Gold Dust Saloon, she wants to leave, but has no place to go. Then, her brother gets put in jail, and she must run some kind of business to keep him from losing the building. Against the recommendation of handsome Lance Corte, Jennie converts the saloon into a Tea House.

When Mammie announces that Stephen needs to go to town and pick up his mail order bride, he is flabbergasted. Mammie has been writing to Sally Jersey and now expects him to marry her. Stephen has every intention of putting her back on the stage and sending her home, until he sees her lovely face and the nieces and nephews she brought. Will Stephen allow himself to fall in love, or will Sally be given away to the most eligible bachelor in Waterhole, Texas?

In this novella, Maribelle is asked to leave the orphanage at age 18. She isn't sure where to go or what to do, so she jumps at the chance to ride the Orphan Train and help take care of the 24 children. At the final stop in Missouri, she is once again concerned about her future return to Boston, but when a handsome man asks if he can "adopt" her to help take care of "Connie", she immediately agrees. Will Maribelle, "Belle", find a home and love in Missouri or have to return to the orphan life in Boston?

When Angelica Cartwright heads to Kentucky to begin her teaching career, she never dreams she will be waylaid in Mistletoe, Kentucky, with a broken foot and cared for by a handsome wood-carver and his daughter. However, she soon finds that Luke Tanner is also carving himself onto her heart

Kelli is a 19-year-old orphan who lives and teaches at a New York orphanage. She is sent west on the Orphan Train to oversee the children. When the train reaches Kansas, the end of the line, and Kelli realizes that she must return to New York, she makes a desperate plea to a golden-bronzed cowboy, asking to fill the place of a mail order bride he advertised for to raise his little girl.

When Henrietta agrees to become a mail order angel for Benjamin Capel, she moves to Angel Vale Wyoming eager to begin working in the town's eatery. Although happy with her job and attracted to her husband-to-be, she discovers that Benjamin has several secrets. What does he do for a living, why does talking about money upset him so much, and who actually owns the Angel Vale Eatery?

When Penny Trent, owner of Cake Time in Harbor Inn Maine, meets Kyle London, a famous writer who has come to close down his grandmother's coffee shop, Just a Cup, there is an immediate attraction between them. Penny, busy cooking for the mayor's Christmas party, the town's annual bake off, and trying to persuade Kyle to keep Just a Cup open, doesn't have time for holiday traditions or to embark on a new relationship, even if it is with the man of her dreams.

When Shera Logan stepped off the train to stretch her legs, she never expected to twist her ankle and be abandoned at a coal stop, 60 miles from the next town. After walking for hours, she realizes that she can go no further, so she lays down in the snow, makes a snow angel, and her most special prayer asking God to either send someone to help her or to take her home. Mathew Tucker, intent on returning to his ranch after a visit to town, never expected to find a woman collapsed in the snow almost frozen to death.

When Jane steps into the old antique store to look at the lovely Christmas Village, she can only dream of living in a wonderful place like that. But when the owner of the store encourages her to make a wish over the village, she is swept away to a place where her dreams can be fulfilled.

Ida has been taken away from her lovely childhood home, The Cottage on Ivy Lane, and forced to live with her unloving step sister. The only joy she has is going to school and church and believing that the boy next door will some day help her to return to the Cottage on Ivy Lane.

Jaimyn Jones wants to experience a real Thanksgiving, but she has no family or friends to do this with. She hopes to find a bit of the holiday season by staying at the Thanksgiving Cottage, even though she knows it's too big for just one person.

Birch Tree, Maine, is experiencing a rash of deaths, all mysteriously linked to food trucks that frequent the Birch Point Lake Park. Angel’s new donut truck was doing great, until deathly rumors started. Shanice thought she had customer support when taking over her grandpa’s potato truck, until one started complaining. Marisol’s taco truck is a fixture in the park, until linked to a food judge’s death. Mey’s noodle truck was her ticket to a new life, until her ex-boyfriend threatens to take it away. Could competition between vendors have led to this murder and mayhem?

Kia has just inherited an old Victorian house from her Gran and a sizable amount of money, so she’s actually set for life and wants to settle into the small town, but she needs to find a way to fit into the community; the last thing she wants is a new relationship with a man.

Holly thought she was going to Waterhole, Texas to marry William Pitt; a young rancher she’d been corresponding with. However, the old, rude and arrogant man who picks her up at the stagecoach station in San Antonio to take her to meet her fiancé, reveals along the way that he is actually who she has been writing to. Now that she’s agreed to the marriage there is nothing, she can do but go through with the ceremony.

Forty-year-old Katie’s overprotective aunts have recently passed away, leaving Katie their fortune and mansion located in Harbor Inn, Maine. Trying to become involved in the community, Katie opens the mansion as a thrift store to support the local animal shelter.