Vanessa Carvo: 399 books

If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride - An English woman, first a scullery maid then an indentured servant in New York, escapes to become a mail ordered bride thanks to the assistance of a young nun. Her husband is eager to get married, but only after they become acquainted. A crisis as they head...

Mail Order Bride: 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 House That Love Built - A man helps his friend by working on a house that the friend is creating in anticipation of the man’s soon-to-arrive mail ordered bride, but something happens that pulls the reins on the friend’s hopes and dreams and the man wonders what will be the future of the handcrafted...

The Overweight Widow Takes A Chance - An overweight woman is sent to Nebraska to be a mail order bride, through the machinations of her mother, who has sent a picture other than hers to the cowboy. He is surprised when he sees her, as she is when she learns that he has three children. Both wonder...

The Little Bird Sings, is a Victorian mail order bride story about a high society woman who escapes an abusive husband, when he divorces her. She has a hard time surviving in London until she runs across a poster for a mail order bride and signs up, not knowing about any of the skills she’s sure...

God’s News For Mercy, is an emotional and lovely and deeply Christian story about a married woman with two children who wakes up one day in her small Western town in 1875, and finds out that her whole world has caved in on her and that the mayor and his cronies are now her sworn enemies. Her husband...

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...

The Cowboy’s Tiny Treasure - A Little Person who is an acrobat in a circus decides she wants a family and children more than anything else, so she corresponds with a cowboy out west who has children; the only problem is she never tells him that she’s the size she is and when she arrives in California,...

The Sharp-Witted Cowboy & The Little Widow Lady From Virginia - 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. The Purple Ribbon & The Mail Order Brides –...

The Young & Rich Widow Who Loses Her Fortune - An upper crust young Boston widow is so used to her high society lifestyle that when her fortune changes she holds onto her life as it was, for as long as possible, before taking a surprising offer to move to Colorado and become the wife of a rancher.Walking...

Mail Order Bride: 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, at least if the couple are to believe a crazy beekeeping old man...

Abby Tames Two Mustangs: A Man & His Horse - When Abby saved a man who fell from his horse, little did she know as she looked into his gray eyes, that his past would hold a secret which almost drove them apart; from idle gossip and his lack of faith.Amazing Grace: Loretta's Orphanage Of...

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. How Chloe Appeased The Magical Spirit Wolf - A woman decides to leave her Connecticut home and become a mail order...

When a sheriff finds that he needs someone to help take care of his two children after his wife dies, he never thought that he’d get an organ playing non-believer like the woman who arrived on his doorstep one day.