Helen Keating: 100 books

An English woman has moved to California to become the mail order bride of a former gold miner with a daughter who is lost to him. There are obstacles to overcome first, one of which is the man’s former drunken life and what caused it.

Pregnant & Headed For A Godless Rancher: A pregnant woman heads west to Oklahoma to be married to a rancher who seems to want a housekeeper, rather than a wife and mother to his two children. She fears she cannot survive the humidity or his lack of faith, but vows to give it her best shot.Englishwoman...

A Widow & Her Rival: A Christian Mail Order Bride Romance, is about a young, pregnant widow of a soldier killed during the civil war. While she doesn’t really need a job, she takes one as a housekeeper for a single man, and he and his three children hit it off, but not in a romantic way. While...

A Christian Heart Of Gold In The Yukon Territories, is an incredible story about faith and the love for God, amongst rough gold miners and one Mexican mining camp cook. It’s tough up in the frozen north in 1898 but Maria the cook is determined to both feed the men there, and teach them about her...

Mail Order Bride: The Victorian Orphan Girl, is an incredible 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...

Pioneers on a wagon train headed along the Oregon Trail, decide to winter it out and begin building a small community composed of several log cabins. Along with their faith to guide them, relationships are formed which will change their lives forever.

With God’s Love And Faith: Western Mail Order Bride Glory Arrives On The Prairie, is an emotionally rich story about a lonely older man who lives almost hermit-like in his old cabin in the middle of the prairie. Native Americans pass by, then soldiers, then settlers in their various shapes and sizes...

Alice’s Many Children: A woman with a heart bursting from love, gathers together orphans who many would have rejected, and when she struggles to maintain her large household, an ad for a mail order bride catches her eye.Taking Beth West On Her Last Journey: Secretly in love with her, a man helps a dying woman with her last wish; go west to California

Note: This powerful and wryly told story does contain a small amount of mild Old West violence and language, but it is suitable for those readers over 16. Synopsis: A crusty accountant turned bartender places an ad in a newspaper for a year to get an English mail order bride, then promptly...

Mail Order Bride: Charles & Ramona & The Wolves Of The Forest, is about a high society woman in NYC who gets sent off to Oregon to be the bride of a lonely outpost operator. He is as stunned by her beauty when she gets off the train, as she is by the wilderness surrounding his cabin and home. She...

Mail Order Bride: Rejected By The English Lord, But Welcomed By The Rancher - A woman who is minor royalty leaves the confines of her family home in England, to visit with a friend in America. As soon as she arrives she sees a newspaper advertisement for mail order brides and shortly after that, she’s...

Mail Order Bride: The Overweight Fish Seller From Maine - An overweight woman from Maine is tired of running her father’s fish selling shop and spending her days hacking off fish heads, so she decides to take a chance on love and travels to California and a rancher with three children. It’s an...

The Western Mail Order Bride: James Gets His Georgia Peach, gives us the story of James, who settled in California and made a life and homestead and ranch for himself along with his brother and his wife. He was missing something and when he figured out what it was, he wrote to his Aunt Maggie about...

A pregnant widow is taken by a crotchety old matchmaker to a silver miner in Nevada, but when she meets him she’s rather taken aback by his scruffy appearance and drunken habits. And, she doesn’t know how he’ll take the news of her pregnancy.