Doreen Milstead: 925 books

Mail Order Bride: Hannah & Tim’s Story - A woman from Ohio investigates a mail order bride fraud, and then decides to head off to meet a man who she had corresponded with and for whom her dead husband held high regards. Her Roy often visited her and offered his advice, although he was fading...

Traveling West To Help The Sick – Unable to find a placement back east, a woman travels westward to find a position as a doctor. She encounters unexpected adventure along the way. War Wounds - The Battle of Valverde Crossing took place on February 20-21, 1862, along the banks of the Rio Grande River...

Going To The Loving Tall Farmer In Nebraska - A woman longs to be married and form a family with a Christian man and be his helpmate for life, but there’s simply no available men where she lives, so she decides to reply to a mail order bride wanted ad. One reply, and it’s the only one that’s...

Mail Order Bride: Abigail Heads For Home In Celestial - When a woman sets out for Colorado to meet her future husband, she encounters many trials of faith and endurance, as well as one temporarily lost soul whose life becomes entwined with her own as the struggle to survive begins. All along the way,...

The Little Bird Sings, is a Victorian mail order bride story about a high society woman who escapes an abusive husband, when he divorces her. A Mail Order Bride For The Sheriff -- A sheriff in the West has almost everything a man could wish for, except for a bride. He asks his tavern owner aunt for...

Beth & the Wounded Warrior - A woman decides to go to Texas, along with her sister, to become the wife of a man with two children, who was injured in the Civil War. Her life is idyllic, but not for long.Riders From The Storm - The widow of a clergyman heads off to be a mail order bride to a...

Minus Two Equals One Heart - A woman from England, missing an arm because of a birth defect, takes a chance on love to go out west and possibly marry a man with one leg. Getting Rid Of The Outlaw Husband, can be a tough job if you’re the sheriff of a small town where no one wants to join your posse...

A garment factory worker, not a fan of insects, heads out to a farmer in Nebraska, where the area appears to be under an imminent threat of attack by locusts, at least if the couple are to believe a crazy beekeeping old man who dresses up in a giant locust costume, and who keeps on yelling “They’re Coming”, every chance he gets.

A stubborn and pregnant English widow makes the long journey to California in the hopes of safe haven for she and her child, and intent on not marrying her mail order fiancé because he is merely a means to an end. Her companions are a young married couple – the man is one that her husband saved...

Trapped in a loveless marriage, and after her husband’s suicide, Emma decides to become a mail order bride and after finding a rancher, she boards the train headed for California. There’s only one thing on her mind though; the rancher wants a family, and she’s thirty-five.

Walking To the Six Gun Samurai - A cowboy with a ranch in Arizona sends for a mail order bride who arrives early and not realizing that his ranch is many miles away from the railway station, she sets out walking, and halfway there meets a stranger on horseback who is dressed in an unfamiliar style...

The second novella in this bundle is of a shorter than usual novella length, but I wanted to include it as I believe it has a true "Old West" appeal.Minus Two Equals One Heart - A woman from England, missing an arm because of a birth defect, takes a chance on love to go out west and possibly...

The First Female Cable Car Operator & Her Wealthy American - An upper class young woman in Quebec has a lifelong dream of being the first woman cable car operator in San Francisco; and when she meets a rich American at her debutante party, her dreams are quickly realized. However, it’s a much...

Mail Order Bride: A Big Surprise For The Arizona Rancher - A woman from an upper class English family decides to become a mail order bride to an Arizona rancher, but is shocked when she realizes the potentially harsh life ahead on the days-long journey to his remote ranch by oxcart; and it’s a lonely...