The Grand Eight Story Collection Of Love — Vanessa Carvo

A Widow & Her Rival: A Christian Mail Order Bride Romance is about a young, pregnant widow of a soldier killed during the civil war. While she doesn't really need a job, she takes one as a housekeeper for a single man, and he and his three children hit it off, but not in a romantic way. While Abby is on maternity leave, he sends for a mail order bride and along with an attractive woman, he gets far more than he ever bargained for.

Learning To Fly: A Christian Mail Order Bride Romance, is a glorious story about a man and woman who correspond after he places an ad for a mail order bride in the newspaper, and she responds. He feels in his heart that she is the one he will marry and start his family with, but as the train arrives in his small California town, he searches and searches for the woman he's grown to love.

The Rancher's Bull: A Christian Mail Order Bride Romance, is about a Victorian woman who decides to travel to the lawless US West after losing her estate in England to a ruthless neighbor. She can take care of herself, but was not prepared for her new life and the handsome ranch owner who greeted her, just as she was about to be dropped off from her stagecoach while trying to escape the large Longhorn bull about to ram them all into oblivion.

Losing Her Cowboy: A Christian Mail Order Bride Romance, is the emotional story of Jordyn, a woman who starts out by lying when she begins a correspondence with a rancher in Oregon who has advertised for a mail order bride. All she wants to do is get out west, learn how to run a ranch, then own one herself--just like she and her now deceased father had planned. Under other deceptions, she gets a free boat ride out to the west coast from a mail order bride company sending one hundred women in search of husbands. When she arrives and attends the meeting where the men and women get together, she looks for “her” man but cannot find him. With no other option, she decides to take the leftovers and rides off in one coarse character's wagon. Things go rapidly downhill from there.

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. The trouble is -- she has had a checkered past just like he has.

The Baby Left Along The Oregon Trail & Rescued By Christian Pioneers, is a heart-warming story about a poor wagon train making its way along the Oregon Trail. The train may be poor but the Christians on it are strong. A Native American baby is found along the trail by one young man and he takes it immediately to the wagon train. There are no nursing mothers on the small train and no source of food for the infant. The young man and one experienced woman and one very young woman come to a unique solution to help the baby thrive and this has a Grapes Of Wrath feel about it. Still, there are many obstacles both internal and external before they reach their destination.

Saving Lonely Thomas: A Christian Mail Order Bride Romance, is about Thomas, who lives virtually alone in his house in Pennsylvania, with only his cousin to look after him. His legs were damaged in a railway accident and the only way he can get around his house is by crawling, or by means of an awkward chaise lounge, prototype wheelchair that his cousin pushes. He loses his faith and reads only controversial books, and his neighbors begin to despise him.

Our Wagon Train's One Special Christmas Eve Along The Oregon Trail, is a beautiful story about a young woman traveling west on a wagon train. She looks after the children and others before she does herself, but always tries to write in her journal. It's her way of talking to God. During the trip, they all have to contend wit