Vanessa Carvo: 399 books

A Southern woman, fallen on hard times with her family right after the Civil War, heads west and to a man she met reading an advertisement in the newspaper. She’s looking for love and stability after her fiancé was killed in the war, but what she gets is the adventure of a lifetime and a man very different from what he advertised.

Man Cannot Live By Bread Alone – A small family struggles to survive during a harsh winter, until a miracle happens. Off To The Scruffy Silver Miner - 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...

Sent By God To The California Cowboy, is about a young woman in New York City who has fallen onto hard times after being released from the orphanage she’d been in for a majority of her life. Two kind women take her into a halfway house but there is reason for her to leave New York immediately. The...

Across Rough Seas To Her California Cowboy - A pregnant and widowed English woman travels across rough seas, trying to reach her promised mail order husband in California. She runs out of funds in St. Louis and it’s only through the kindness of strangers that she is saved. On the other hand, her...

Across Rough Seas To Her California Cowboy (A Mail order Bride Romance) - A pregnant and widowed English woman travels across rough seas, trying to reach her promised mail order husband in California. She runs out of funds in St. Louis and it’s only through the kindness of strangers that she is...

For The Rest Of Their Lives - A biracial woman from Florida agrees to be a mail order bride to a Colorado rancher and is thrilled when he makes the long journey down south to pick her up. Sparks do not fly between the couple but she agrees to go back with him. She’s overweight while he is thin and...

Mail Order Bride: Widow & Child & The California Slave Owner - 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.Mail Order Bride: Widow...

From The Royal Ballet To Her California Rancher- A prima ballerina in London finds that her lover and costar is cheating on her and decides to throw it all in and apply to be a mail order bride in America. She meets a lower class woman in the mail order bride office and they form a fast and permanent...

Taking The Train West For Love, is a beautiful story about a woman who, after two years of corresponding with a man out west, accepts his invitation of marriage and sets out on her journey. On the train she meets a stranger and enjoys their frequent chats and stories from the bible. One night, everything...

Mail Order Bride: The Shy Woman From Virginia & The Man With A Secret From North Dakota - A very shy woman from West Virginia leaves her home to head west to a man she’s never met, who lives in a small sod house in North Dakota. He tries to hold off telling her about his past, until someone from...

Five Harrington Sisters Along The Oregon Trail - Five sisters on the long road west, find love and tribulations along the Oregon Trail. The Roman Woman’s New Dishes - An independent Roman woman is on the lookout for a new dinnerware set but all she can find are erotic designs and geometric squares,...

Five Harrington Sisters Along The Oregon Trail - Five sisters on the long road west, find love and tribulations along the Oregon Trail.The Roman Woman’s New Dishes - An independent Roman woman is on the lookout for a new dinnerware set but all she can find are erotic designs and geometric...

Oregon Trail Journey After The Civil War, is the story of a southern woman and her older brother, striking out for the West to escape the hardships of the South after the Civil War. She didn’t want to leave her home but not wanting to be left isolated, she went with him. The wagon train along the...

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. She does not tell the stern man who meets her at the train station about her former life for months, and when he finds out, the baby is due anytime....