Lisa Castillo Vargas: 488 books

To Love Means Death is a story about forbidden love set in an unnamed country in the Middle East and it’s all about a Western civilian working for an oil company. He meets a woman in the local market and she is as interested in him, as he is in her. He wants her to go away with him, back home to...

A woman travels to Nebraska to become the wife of a cowboy farmer and once there, finds him distant, angry, and with a neglected ranch and his infant son, too. He lives in the past and all he can think about is his wife who passed away. The mail order bride is determined to take care of his son and...

Overweight Jocelyn Flees To California -- 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...

A Victorian era woman is left widowed then taken in by a kindly neighbor for a brief while, but after that she faces the harsh reality of making her own living; except it will be an uphill battle as she decides to move to Colorado and work on her neighbor’s brother-in-laws’s ranch. The only problem is her attitude and focus in life, and her lack of faith in God, who she barely knows.

A Soft & Loving Heart Needed, is an emotional story of a man who lost his wife to a stray bullet, was left with a traumatized young daughter to care for; and how he advertised for a helpmate to try to heal his little girl.

Two Sisters and The Family Quilt Go West For Love, is the story of two sisters sent by their parents to California, where one is to be a mail order bride. On the train journey, they meet two men who seem strangely familiar and along the way, grow to like them. The one intended mail order bride fights...

Rachel Fisher’s Life-Changing Decision, is the story of a young woman with a powerful decision to make. Should she leave her family, her community and her church for a young man she loves and who also must leave his community because he wants to get away from his father and get a job with the English...

Mail Order Bride: Two Sisters and The Family Quilt Go West For Love, is the story of two sisters sent by their parents to California, where one is to be a mail order bride. On the train journey, they meet two men who seem strangely familiar and along the way, grow to like them. The one intended mail...

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 with a kind stranger who is...

The Western Mail Order Bride: Weston B. Freeman & His English Lady, Eleanor, is a wonderful story about an entrepreneur in old Montana, Weston B. Freeman. He has a checkered, colorful, and sometimes sordid past but he finally wants to settle down--and he’s lonely. He advertises for a mail order...

Losing both her husband and her business in New York, a widow corresponds with then joins a cattle rancher in Texas, but is surprised at both the number of men surrounding him at the train station, and the apparent state of finances at the ranch. Immediately, she steps in and tries to help but her...

Mail Order Bride: The Circus Performer & Her Racial Divide - A woman has known only the circus sideshow her whole life, because her parents sold her to the owners when she was three years old. Half her face is white and half black, and everyone outside of her circus family shunned her. Finally free...

This is a bitingly satirical story about a cowboy who wants a wife and chooses one – a mail order bride from Virginia. What he doesn’t know is that the woman is a little person. What he does know is that he’s rapidly falling in love with her.

Mail Order Bride: Margaret's Jewish Cowboy, is a story about two damaged people finding love, thanks to the assistance of one small town religious leader. The latter encourages crotchety Jed to advertise for a mail order bride and without warning, because of a mistake, one shows up on his doorstep....