Helen Keating: 100 books

Mail Order Groom – Widow Sends For A Baptist Husband, is about a widow who sends for a man to become a father to her children and husband to herself, while trying to take care of her Nevada land and teach the word of God. At first, it’s more like a practical business arrangement but they soon find a great commonality and solace for their individual losses.

Mail Order Bride: Starving In Victorian England, is a love story about the strength and character of one orphaned woman who, facing a tough and extremely hard life in Victorian London, decides to go to California as a mail order bride. She runs out of money for the train ride after crossing the Atlantic...

Finding Home With The Lord’s Help, is a love story about two families traveling West along the Oregon Trail--both have lost their matriarchs and one has lost their faith on God. One young woman looks across at the other family--full of love and faith--then up to her gruff father who has lost his....

An overweight woman from Maine decides to become a mail order bride to a farmer in California, because there are no suitors left where she lives. The widower with two children meets her at the train station and she thinks he is shocked by her weight, but he remains mostly silent for a long time. She...

A former accountant turned bartender advertises for a mail order bride for a year, then forgets about it, until a beautiful woman from London shows up and walks into his saloon.

A Gaelic woman decides to head for America from Ireland after finding a mail ordered husband. Little did she know how she and a Cajun fisherman in New Orleans would get along, despite language and cultural differences, and his ancient fishing boat that was their only means for making a living.

A society woman, on the edge of a scandal, is sent as a mail order bride to the wilds of Nevada by her parents. Unable to do the simplest of chores, the lonely outpost operator sends her away, not realizing that she may not wait until daylight.

Our Wagon Train’s One Special Christmas Eve Along The Oregon Trail, is a beautiful story about a young woman traveling west on a wagon train. She looks after the children and others before she does herself, but always tries to write in her journal. It’s her way of talking to God. During the trip...

One Bible’s Journey Along The Oregon Trail: Aaron & Elizabeth’s Story, is about two young people traveling West in the same wagon train, but with disparate beliefs about God. It’s basically the entire wagon train against Aaron and his family and his abrasive father. Through his songs around...

Mail Order Bride: Delivery Refused? is a novella about a lonely California rancher who requests a mail order bride, but considers sending her back when she tells him adamantly that she doesn’t want to get married yet -- or ever.

A pregnant and widowed woman travels from back east to California, to meet the brother of a woman she knows. The trouble is; he doesn’t know she’s coming and soon after arrival, there’s an immediate stumbling block to any possible relationship.

Mail Order Bride, Praying For A Cowboy To Love Me, is about a woman and her sister who are sent out to Texas for one of them to be a mail order bride to a disabled war veteran rancher with one hand, and as a new mother to his two children. The rancher hadn’t known he could ever love again, but when...

Mail Order Bride: Beautiful Clara & Her Short Cowboy - A woman decides that a husband in the Old West would be a match for her quirky personality, but finds that the short yet muscular cowboy she accepts for her husband does not appreciate her sense of humor. A major event later lets her have her...

Traveling West To Help The Sick, is an exciting adventure, as well as a love story. A woman doctor is headed to Sacramento to start a new practice -- she hopes. Where she was from wasn’t exactly behind her plans to set up practice, and she almost lost her faith, but when she met a well-dressed man...