Vanessa Carvo: 399 books

Blind Faith In The Lord: A Story Of Survival In Victorian England, is a powerful story about a poverty-stricken woman who must work to support herself, but finds that her sight is deteriorating rapidly because of the chemicals used in her garment factory. One day, while trying to make it back to her...

Man Alone - A woman from England decides to get out of London and seek a husband in California and after corresponding with a cowboy, makes her way there. There is nothing to do when he’s gone for weeks at a time and she begins to get restless, until an idea about owning their own mercantile store...

The Widow & Her Baby Meet The Handyman Along The Oregon Trail - A widow tries to provide for her baby along the arduous trek of the Oregon Trail. When a mysterious stranger joins the train, carrying precious little other than his carpentry tools, he tells her that the Lord will provide, if she has...

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 personality back,...

Pregnant & Widowed, But Not Telling Her New Husband - A woman is suddenly widowed, finds herself pregnant, and hurries to find a new husband in America. The Strong English Woman & The Outlaw In Arizona - A mail ordered bride expects to be met at the railway station by her intended, but he’s...

Conflict Of Beliefs - A woman makes a solitary journey, along with a few wranglers, to the California home of her future husband, only to find a situation that goes against what her husband fought and died for in the Civil War. Hiding Out With Her Outlaw Husband & His Mother - A mail ordered bride...

Losing Her Cowboy Before She Can Marry Him - 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. Living Off The Land For Her Husband, is about...

Big Enough For Love - Sick of the taunts from the inhabitants of her small town, above average weight Jocelyn had endured numerous insults since she was a small child. An ad for mail order brides spurred her to act and she wrote to the company and was matched up with a rancher in California who wanted...

From New York To Nevada & Into The Arms Of The Wrong Cowboy - A woman travels from New York with her best friend, another mail order bride, to Nevada and both of their fiancés. Three Sisters & the Journey West - A woman and her two sisters fall on hard times in England when their alcoholic...

Rejected By The Duke, But Taken In By The Kind Rancher - An English woman heads for America, and when she arrives on the train she finds out some terrible news about her mail ordered husband. Fortunately, she is taken in by a kind rancher with a troubled past who is at the train station to pick up...

The Navajo Medicine Woman & The Civil War Vet - A Navajo woman decides to become the mail order bride of a wounded vet, but she hasn’t told him she’s Navajo and when she arrives at the train station, she has no idea what effect her appearance has on him because he has a severe case of PTSD from...

And He Took The Children Into His Arms - A destitute woman in New York gives birth to a tiny baby and the orphanage there is unsure of the newborn’s survival. After feeling that it’s the baby’s only chance for a good life, a friend of the orphanage takes the baby out to Indiana for adoption...

Mail Order Bride: An Extra Bride For The Gold Assayer, Means One For The Outlaw? A French-Canadian woman heads for Montana even though she hasn’t written to her potential husband, because she assumes that she will be perfect for the man who advertised for a bride. Unfortunately, he’s gone ahead...

The Locust Fighting Nebraska Bride & Her Tenacious Famer - 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. The Town Of Second Chances - Two female con artists decide to scam a couple...