Vanessa Carvo: 399 books

These five brand new, never before published as singles stories, are all about the Amish lifestyle and they are a mixture of contemporary and western. They are: Two Little Angels, Excommunicated, I Never Knew My Father, Middle Aged Along The Oregon Trail, and Sister In Secret. Together, they total over 23,000 words.

An overweight woman, beautiful inside and out, believes she will never achieve happiness like her average weight sisters have. She decides to take the plunge and heads out to California and to a widower with two children.

A Rough Hewn Cowboy - A woman decides to become a mail order bride but goes west under subterfuge – she already has a man lined up even though she will be supposedly matched up with a cowboy by the company who is paying her way. When she gets there, she can’t find him, so settles for an unappetizing...

Guardian Angel With A Gun - A blind woman leaves Liverpool without her arranged companion, towards California and a mail order husband she has corresponded with briefly. He’s a traveling preacher to many of the rough gold mining camps. Luckily, a young woman boards the ship at the last minute and...

Abandoned By The Wagon Train - A woman needs to find a new job because her schoolhouse is being torn down. Looking in the newspaper to see what might be available -- anywhere -- she spots an ad for both a schoolteacher in California, and a mail order bride wanted by the same store owner who placed...

The California Cowboy & The Pregnant & Jilted English Orphan - An English woman is jilted by her boyfriend after he promises to marry her and she becomes pregnant. She makes the long trip out to California to become the mail order bride of a farmer who appears alternately angry about her arrival,...

Accidental Love - A woman from Nebraska makes a contract to marry a cowboy in California but along the way there’s an accident with the stagecoach she’s in, and she’s the only passenger. A stranger stops by and the only means of getting out from her predicament is to go back to Colorado with...

Let The Past Die With Him - An abused woman and her mentally challenged adult brother flee their home when she finally manages to escape, and she takes the train to Montana. Lucky to find a job immediately, their life starts to turn around, especially when the woman meets and begins to fall in love...

A seamstress from Philadelphia heads west on the train to become the bride of a Texas cowboy rancher. Unfortunately, along the way her train is robbed and the outlaws kidnap her for ransom. She begins to have feelings for one of the kind robbers, not knowing his true role and identity in the whole affair.

An overweight woman is sent out west to be the wife of a man she knows nothing about. Her parents never told her that they’d chosen a mail ordered husband for her. When she sees the amount of work to be done on his large ranch, she despairs that she will ever learn anything about the farm to table philosophy that’s needed to support a family on the frontier.

Half A Man Is Good Enough For Her - Two sisters escape an abusive home in England to seek love in Oregon with two brothers, as mail order brides to the men. What will the matches be, and will one sister be able to break through one brother’s hard exterior to find any love within him?The Secret...

Mail Order Grace: A Little Child Shall Lead Her, is about a widower who was left with a traumatized daughter who cannot see, hear or speak. After watching her mother die from a random gunshot wound, the little girl withdrew into a world of her own, leaving her father unable to cope or understand how...

A Well-Off Widow & Her Colorado Rancher - A destitute but formerly well-off widow decides to become a mail order bride to a rancher in Colorado – a man who is known to a neighbor and friend. With the memories of her late husband still fresh in her mind, she wonders how she can survive the daily...

Woman & Child Facing The Odds To Reach Her Cowboy - A widow with a child decides to move from her farm after struggling to make ends meet by herself, so she corresponds with a cowboy in California. She travels to meet him in a city which is at the end of one of his cattle drives and they agree...