Brides of Pelican Rapids
Series · 19
books · 2019-2022
Books in series
#1
Lottie's True Love
2019
Miss Charlotte Kennedy, a southern belle from Georgia, has been waiting for her fiancé, Ryan Hill, to return from the Civil War since it ended three years ago. Nothing is the same since he enlisted, promising to return.
When her cousin, Kitty Gardner, writes to her about a mail-order bride agency in Ottertail County, Minnesota, Charlotte writes to the proprietress, Miss Ella Milton, hoping she might be able to find her a suitable match. She doesn’t expect her heart to stop aching for Ryan, but moving forward with her life has become more appealing than the devastation of the war.
The last thing Lottie expects is for Ella Milton to match her to Captain Caleb Brooks, a handsome Yankee hero who sweeps her off her feet right from the start. He doesn’t expect her to be so beautiful, and he certainly doesn’t expect her to turn his life upside-down.
When Ryan, the handsome young Master of Bally-Belle Plantation, turns up on the scene in Pelican Rapids alive, suffering from a severe case of Soldier’s Heart and searching for his fiancée, Caleb may have to enlist the help of some unlikely company to bring his bride safely home again.
Adventure, drama, history, humor, and sweet romance leap off the pages in this captivating mail-order bride series. Purchase your copy today and enjoy every moment in this Christian Historical Romance novel.
#2
Caroline's Quilt
2019
After the Civil War claims her brother’s life, Miss Caroline Rose Kennedy searches for a new beginning. Atlanta only reminds her of past sorrows and family secrets, but learning of her cousin’s happy marriage arranged by a mail-order-bride agency brings a ray of hope. Perhaps Miss Milton could arrange a suitable match for her in Minnesota, too.
In spite of her mother’s disapproval, Caroline travels to Pelican Rapids to meet her groom. She brings her grandmother’s tattered quilt as a reminder of home, gathering patches along her travels to repair the treasured family heirloom.
Upon her arrival in Pelican Rapids, Caroline’s plans unravel. Her journey to find a new beginning leads her down an unexpected path, testing her faith in ways she never imagined. Can God use her unraveled dreams to create a beautiful patchwork for the future?
In this second installment in the Brides of Pelican Rapids Series, come on an adventurous ride through the western frontier with Caroline. Be encouraged by her story of healing, faith and courage.
#4
Marni's Measure
2019
Fed up with the constant barrage of men trying to win her hand to gain access to her productive grist mill, Marni Simms is determined to leave town on her own terms. When she finally has to admit that her wartime husband will not return she determines that a new town and a new start is just what she needs. Will moving to Pelican Rapids and meeting with the town matchmaker be the answer she is looking for or will she simply settle into a quiet life on her own?
#5
Molly's New Song
2020
Having lost her Georgia home, along with her brother and mother, to the war, Molly Stewart is left penniless with a broken father. She signs up with the Pelican Rapids Mail-Order Brides agency in Minnesota, and Mrs. Ella Milton matches her with local farmer, Luke Ferrell. An attraction develops between Molly and Luke after months of corresponding, and they decide to marry. Knowing her father will never agree to the match, Molly runs away to Pelican Rapids, taking her grand piano with her—the only thing saved when Sherman’s army burned her home.Luke is smitten with the sweet, beautiful Molly, and will do anything to win her love, even building onto his small farmhouse to accommodate her piano. Molly admires her handsome fiancé, but rumors that he still loves another woman disturb her, and he wants to keep delaying their wedding day. And why is he reluctant to discuss his past?But Molly realizes she hasn’t been totally honest either. When she reveals to Luke the reason her piano is so important to her, it opens wounds in Luke’s past that threaten their happiness.
#6
Nina's Fresh Start
2020
The thought of leaving her Alabama home and the people she loved caused Nina Malone's heart to weep. She had tried to restore the good in her life after the war, but it simply wasn't meant to be. Agreeing to her brother's plan, she bravely made the journey to Pelican Rapids, Minnesota to meet the man who would soon become her husband. Jack Winthrop had a vision of what his life should be and a wife really wasn't part of that vision. All he really wanted was to run his tea shop and make it popular and profitable. His bossy mother had upset his apple cart by engaging the services of the proprietor of a mail-order bride agency. It made no difference to him that Mrs. Ella Milton was rumored to be the best matchmaker in Ottertail County. Resigned to his fate, Jack goes with to meet the woman who would become his wife. When he sees her for the first time he's shocked that she's so beautiful and decides that possibly a marriage to her might not be the worst that could happen. Though she seems shy and withdrawn, he hopes she'll come out of her shell and show him a sweet personality he's sure is hiding inside. Nina meets Jack and is more than confused that he along with his family keep calling her the wrong name. Who is this Lucy they keep speaking of? And where is Paul Randall, the man she's come to Pelican Rapids to marry? Before she gets the nerve to speak up, Nina is whisked into a life she's not supposed to have. Betrothed to the wrong man seems wrong, but is it possible that Jack Winthrop truly is the one and only man she can ever love?
#7
Jenny's Secret Diary
2020
Jenny Lindford is a southern belle from Lexington, Kentucky about to become a mail-order bride in Minnesota. The eldest of five sisters, she worked hard to help her ma hold the family horse farm together while her father was away fighting in the Civil War. Raised to be an independent thinker, she attends Miss Clark’s Finishing School after the war, and then tours England and France with one of her sisters under an aunt’s watchful eyes. However, it seems no one can see what she’s writing in that journal of hers.
Philadelphia-born Dr. Zane Beckham has led a privileged life. Not only is he world-traveled, but he’s entitled to an enormous inheritance from his father’s Pittsburgh iron foundry and railroad investments. The Beckhams have made a fortune during the war selling iron to shipbuilders, locomotive makers, and weaponry manufacturers. In his early thirties, Zane is ready to settle down. He’s been building a mansion for his bride in the small town of Pelican Rapids, and maybe a few other things, too.
When matchmaker Ella Milton brings these two together and they begin a correspondence through the mail, Jenny and Zane both have secrets they aren’t ready to reveal. Even Ella isn’t sure what these two hearts should do. Will her matchmaking efforts backfire when their secrets are revealed, or can love overcome the best kept secrets?
Get your copy of this Christian Historical Romance novella with an 1870s Victorian setting and enjoy the rich history, drama, inspiration, and humor in this sweet romance today!
#8
Vivian's Morning Star
2020
Vivian Kane has always felt trapped between two worlds. Being raised by her father in southern genteel society, but taking after her deceased Lakota mother in appearance has left her an outcast. Despite the pain of being cut off by her extended family, Vivian finds happiness with her true love, Connor, who returns to marry her after the war.
Years later, Vivian and Connor travel northward, searching for new opportunities. However, their journey ends in tragedy, leaving Vivian stranded in St. Paul, Minnesota. Widowed with little resources, all seems lost, until hearing about the Brides of Pelican Rapids Agency owned by Ms. Ella Milton. While still mourning Connor’s loss, marrying again seems to be her only option, but will any suitor accept her Lakota heritage and another secret yet to be revealed?
Embark on an inspiring journey of faith and healing as Vivian learns to trust in Christ, the Bright and Morning Star, to lead her to a new home.
#9
Falling for Tallulah
2020
A jilted mail-order bride. Then, a marriage strictly of convenience. But things don’t turn out as planned when love butts in.
Abandoned by her family and forced to leave her current home in Tennessee, Tallulah Morgan writes a mail-order bride agency in Minnesota. She corresponds briefly with a man and travels to Pelican Rapids to meet and marry him, only to find he’s left the country!
Sean Callaghan is a trapper who’s trading in his buckskin clothing for farmer’s overalls. He’s eager to begin farming and doesn’t want the inconveniences of a marriage. Having been hurt in the past, love is something to be avoided at all costs, but then he meets the mail-order bride his brother left behind. Now he finds himself falling for Tallulah.
How will they avoid the inevitable—love?
Falling for Tallulah is a light-hearted, Christian mail-order bride romance set in America’s heartland and is part of the multi-author Brides of Pelican Rapids series. All books in the series are stand-alone stories and can be read in any order.
Get your copy of Falling for Tallulah and follow the adventure of two hearts discovering how covenant love and romance are the key to joy in their marriage!
#10
Hannah's Last Hope
2020
Hannah Garrison leaves her Mississippi home as a mail-order bride, expecting to meet her prospective husband in Kansas. Instead, she’s taken to Chicago, abducted by a notorious gang, and sold to a brothel. She attempts a daring escape, and a handsome stranger stops her pursuers long enough for her to make a get-away on the next train out. The train takes her to Pelican Rapids. When Ella Milton offers her a job as maid on her farm, Hannah believes she’s found a safe refuge for now, but she knows her pursuers will be searching for her and fears she may have put her new friends in danger.
Agent Vince Logan leaves the Pinkerton Agency and heads for Pelican Rapids to help Ella Milton’s son with the wheat harvest. He also hopes match-maker, Ella, can find him a bride to take to his newly purchased farm in Dakota Territory. He’s astonished to find Ms. Milton’s new maid, Hannah, is the young woman he’d seen running from thugs in Chicago. He convinces Hannah to help him bring the gang leaders to justice. As their relationship deepens and danger comes closer, will they risk all for love?
#11
Blaire's Ambushed Heart
2020
Ella Milton, the matchmaker at the Brides of Pelican Rapids Agency, has done it again–a match made in heaven—or so it seems.Blaire finds the perfect man when she marries the handsome Dr. Lyle Frazer, the union allowing her to continue her nursing career in their home town of Spalding, Minnesota. Life couldn’t be better.Lyle Frazer has a past, one he has not shared with his bride, and when it comes knocking on their door—on the eve of his wife’s exciting reveal—Blaire’s heart is ambushed and may never be restored to love again.Will the solution to the abrupt end to their honeymoon, the sudden appearance of Blaire’s childhood sweetheart, and the mystery Lyle seems determined to solve to save their marriage, come too late? Join the newlyweds in this faith-based historical romance, filled with twists and turns to keep you guessing if love will triumph in the end. The contents of this book were tweaked in Oct./22 to further deepen the main characters and their love story, making it more appealing to a Christian audience. The same twists and surprise ending are there for your enjoyment.
#12
Belle of the Ball
2020
Isabel Merriweather was born to become a southern belle from a rice plantation in South Carolina. When her parents become deceased during the Civil War, Aunt Margaret from Atlanta takes her under her wing. With a knack for trouble and no fiancé in sight, Isabel has grown past the customary marrying age and her aunt has become weary of finding her niece a suitable match. Desperate, Aunt Margaret ships Belle to a northern matchmaker in the hopes an unorthodox approach will succeed.
When another mail-order bride in want of a husband and two completely different marriage prospects greet Isabel upon her arrival in Pelican Rapids, a comedy of errors ensues as Isabel and the other bride vie for the title of Belle of the Ball, and of course, a husband. With an arsonist afoot, there’s more than a little mayhem and mischief ahead, and plenty of suspense for the townsfolk of Pelican Rapids.
Get your copy of this Christian Historical Romance novella with an 1870s Victorian Era setting. Enjoy the rich history, drama, and humor in this sweet inspirational romance today!
#13
Vanessa's Replacement Valentine
2021
She's running toward the future. He can't let go of the past. Will these two hurting souls experience love in the present?
Engaged to be married as part of a plan to regain the wealth her family lost during the War Between the States, Vanessa Randolph finds her fiancé in the arms of another woman weeks before the wedding. Money holds no allure for her, so rather than allow her parents to set her up with another rich bachelor she decides to become a mail-order bride. Life in Green Bay, Wisconsin seems to hold all the pieces of a fresh start until she discovers her prospective groom was a Union spy and targeted her parents during one of his investigations. Is her heart safe with any man?
Eight years have elapsed since the Civil War ended, and Miles Andersen has almost managed to put the memories of those difficult years behind him. He's finally ready to settle down, but the women in town are only interested in his money. A mail-order bride seems to be the answer until the woman who arrives brings the past crashing into the present.
Can two wounded hearts find healing in the face of doubt, disappointment, and distrust?
Vanessa's Replacement Valentine A Christian Mail-Order Bride Romance is a heartwarming addition to the Brides of Pelican Rapids and easily read as a standalone.
#14
Vera's Vengeance
2021
Vera Clauson is headed for Pelican Rapids as a mail order bride, but she does not have love or happy-ever-after on her mind. Determined to even the score for her younger sister’s heartbreak, Vera is out for vengeance and will do anything, even agree to change her name, to right the wrongs done to her family. Armed and ready to uncover the truth, Vera is not prepared to fall for the man who left her sister penniless and crying. Chase Falcon enjoys the freedom his new found money offers to expand his livery business, but has reoccurring nightmares of the unsuspecting maiden he’d swept off her feet and exploited to gain it. Will the couple's past lay a foundation for retribution or build a bridge to a love that was never meant to be? Pick up your copy of Vera’s Vengeance today—A mail-order bride romance—and discover the extent that forgiveness spans in changing hearts and redefining the meaning of love.
#15
Verity's Overlander
2021
Poor Mrs. Ella Milton! The matchmaker bends her rules and interviews this bride and groom by letter. No matter the disaster that follows, she still feels the Lord’s blessing in the mess.Verity Vaksdal wants adventure, just like her Viking ancestors. After reading dime novels, she knows that adventure will only come her way if she finds a dark and handsome hero. Mrs. Ella Milton helps her find that hero, arranging for her to be a mail-order bride. To make her plan happen, Verity neglects telling Mrs. Milton her real age. At fifteen, Verity sneaks away from home and leaves a panicked older sister behind her. This sets in motion a series of events that will bring her sister, Veronica, to St. Louis. She’s the one who meets the dark, handsome hero. Not that she’s happy to see him.Robbie MacTavish never thought to write away for a wife. After his wife’s death years earlier, he decided never to remarry. His aunt has other ideas and writes to a “friend of a friend”, Mrs. Ella Milton. When the bride fails to show, he is more relieved than disappointed. He needs to focus his attention on leading his family’s group of wagons to Wyoming.When Veronica, his bride’s much older sister, appears and not Verity, Robbie suddenly grows much more interested in marrying. Will he be able to convince this woman that he needs only her as his wife while they race against time to find Verity?
#16
Josiah's Jewel
2021
The matchmaker’s son, Josiah Milton, finally falls in love with a bride from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Miss Julia Sullivan has stolen his heart. A breath of fresh air with a humble teaching background, she’s not like the other brides. Julia doesn’t have numerous trunks for him to hoist upstairs. Nor is she invasive and eccentric, like Miss Rose MacPherson, a wealthy socialite housing a flying contraption in his barn while waiting for Ella to find her a husband.
Then Julia comes face to face with a shocking discovery about her already difficult past. Her world turns upside down, threatening to undermine her confidence and trust, including her view of relationships. Can her heart and mind heal in time to embrace the love and stability Josiah offers?
#17
For the Love of Penni
2021
She’s in search of a family. He has one to offer. Can she be the wife he needs, or will her pursuits to find her brother pull her heart away?Penni Pembrooke has stopped at nothing to find her long lost brother after the War Between the States. With years of searching behind her, she’s just about given up hope. Now, the home where she resides has become overcrowded. With extended family pressing in on all sides, Penni writes to a mail-order bride agency in hopes of a new life. Meanwhile, she continues to search for her brother who is slow of learning. He still needs her; a war wouldn’t change that.Connor Callaghan finds himself the father of a brand-new infant. While he’s bringing his orphaned niece and his mother home from Ireland to Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, he learns the mail-order bride he left behind is now married to another.With a farm to run and more mouths to feed it’s more than he bargained for. Yet, Penni comes as a fresh surprise—but will she make her heart available to him?For the Love of Penni is a lighthearted, Christian mail-order bride romance set in America’s heartland and is part of the multi-author Brides of Pelican Rapids series. All books in this historical Christian romance series are stand-alone stories and can be read in any order.Get your copy of For the Love of Penni and find out if commitment and love can grow between two hearts that don’t yet know how much they need one another!
#18
A Family for Hazel
2021
Can a widowed preacher who must marry to keep his job and an alleged thief find true love?
After the Civil War takes Hazel Markham's father, and her mother dies of a broken heart, a friend of her parents hires Hazel as a companion. All is well until the woman's lecherous son takes an interest in his mother's assistant. When Hazel spurns his advances one too many times, the man frames her for theft, and she is fired. As a last resort, she applies to be a mail-order bride, and to her dismay, her groom-to-be is a preacher. Will he believe her claims of innocence or reject her as unacceptable?
Olav Kristensen has no plans to remarry after being widowed five years ago, but when the church elders give him an ultimatum to find a wife or lose his job, he advertises for a mail-order bride. The woman who arrives attests she was unjustly accused of robbery at her last job, but when his daughter's heirloom locket goes missing, he is hesitant to believe his bride-to-be. Will he lose his church and a second chance at love?
#19
Polly's Secret Mission
2022
A man’s ambition, a woman’s mission, and a mutual calling that leads to forever love.
Confirmed spinster, Polly Howard, has no illusions about love, but after ten years of pouring herself into her photography and ministering to the poor, she boards the train for Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, to become Noah Scott’s mail-order bride. Though Noah wants to wed immediately, matchmaker Ella Milton recommends they wait to allow a proper courtship.
Noah expects nothing more than a marriage of convenience. All he needs is a wife to help him further his career. But as soon as Polly steps off the train he’s smitten. She’s beautiful, kind, gentle, and possess a servant’s heart—all the characteristics of the heroines he writes about—though he senses she is hiding her true feelings. But Noah has secrets of his own, and when Polly discovers his past, he fears he’ll never win her heart.
#21
Rebecca's Dream
2019
Rebecca Copeland has always dreamed of becoming a mother, but a bout with scarlet fever takes away her ability to bear children. Instead of bemoaning her fate, however, she decides God must be calling her to teach school. She and her best friend, Hope Thompson (a former slave), embark on a new adventure to Pelican Rapids, never dreaming they would land themselves right smack in the crosshairs of a scheming matchmaker. Not only does Ms. Ella Milton not seem to understand their divine calling to serve as lifelong spinsters in the classroom, she already has the perfect beau in mind for each of them!
Authors
Lisa M. Prysock
Author · 32 books
Lisa Prysock is an award-winning, "USA Today" Bestselling Author of Christian Historical Romance and Contemporary Romance novels. She writes in genres which include Christian Suspense, Westerns, Victorian Romance, Civil War Era, Mail-Order Bride stories, Mystery, and more. She enjoys including humor in her books. Readers will often find food, fashion, faith, and fun in her writing. Happily married, she and her husband of 25 years make their home in beautiful Kentucky. They have five children, grown. Lisa's early childhood years include time spent growing up on a northern, Minnesota farm. She has many happy memories of gardening, hiking, bicycle riding, a tree house, and hanging out with a cow named Daisy, chickens, and a few horses. She also grew up in the Ohio Valley near her grandparents. Their ministry greatly impacted her life. She enjoys working with the children and youth in her church family. She can often be found trying to put together a human video with the kids to a new Christian song. Some of her favorite activities include: family time, sewing, crochet, cross stitching, reading, sketching, scrapbooking, cooking, gardening, walking, swimming, and working out—when she is not writing. Lisa loves all things old fashioned and sharing her faith in Jesus through her writing. Her debut novel, "To Find a Duchess," was published in 2011. Since then, she has written more than thirty novels. For more information about Lisa, check out her website at LisaPrysock.com for reader resources, free recipes, devotionals, giveaways, and more.
Danni Roan
Author · 77 books
Danni Roan, born in rural western Pennsylvania, has always loved the country life. Her first work published under her real name, Paula Liddle-Beem, is a collection of folk essays about childhood in the lush, green mountains of PA. Being a teacher of English and English as a Second Language for the past twelve years has only inspired Danni’s love of writing Western Historical Fiction. After receiving her Masters of Education in Teaching English as a Foreign Language she determined to indulge her passion for fiction writing. Teaching both in the USA and abroad has exposed Danni to a wide range of people from all walks of life and she tries to capture that unique character in her work. https://www.facebook.com/danni.roan
Rachel Skatvold
Author · 21 books
Rachel Skatvold is a Christian author of over a dozen books and a stay-at-home mom from the Midwest. She enjoys writing inspirational romance and encouraging blogs. Rachel completed her first series, the Riley Family Legacy Novellas in 2014 and is now working on the Hart Ranch Series, set in the Montana wilderness and the Ladies of Ardena Series, set in medieval times. She is also a contributing author in the Whispers in Wyoming and Brides of Pelican Rapids Series. Other than writing, some of her hobbies include singing, reading and camping in the great outdoors with her husband and two young sons.
Jo Grafford
Author · 100 books
Jo is an Amazon bestselling author of sweet Christian romance full of faith, love, family drama, and a few Texas-sized detours into humor. She loves to visit with readers in her Cuppa Jo Readers group on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Cuppa.... To join her New Release Email List, visit https://www.JoGrafford.com. Jo also writes sweet historical romance as Jovie Grace.
Marlene Bierworth
Author · 45 books
Marlene Bierworth lives in Ontario, Canada and her goal is to inspire her readers to "Dream Big Dreams and Live Big Lives. She seasons her stories to include action, adventure, romance and emotional conflicts, with the meat of the tale touching on current issues that concern families. When the story is told, the book ends, whether it is a short story or a full length novel. Included on her list are books for 'Teens' and the 'young at heart', intended to inspire readers to put feet to their dreams. Marlene has written adventures, romance, suspense, historical western and mysteries for both teens and adults. You can find a complete list of titles at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00J9RM116 Life's experiences feed Marlene's imagination and from them evolve characters and adventures that will keep the reader turning the pages. Fiction is her favorite genre but non-fiction continually tugs at her heart strings when there is a truth to be told or encouragement to give. She has published Book 1 in an ongoing series on the "ABC'S of MARRIAGE" complete with tips and worksheets for study and reflective purposes, for private study between couples or for groups. Successful marriages are her passion and she loves to interact with others to promote healthy marriages. "Life is an adventure waiting to be told" and it is Marlene's goal to "help book lovers experience it to the fullest." Join her fan base and stay informed. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/11180... BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/marle... She is also on Facebook Marlene Bierworth and Twitter (@MBierworth, Pinterest, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Linda Shenton Matchett
Author · 24 books
Linda Shenton Matchett writes about ordinary people who did extraordinary things in days gone by. A self-professed history geek, she is a volunteer archivist and docent at the Wright Museum of World War II. Linda has published more than twenty-five books. When not writing, she enjoys exploring historical sites and immersing herself in the imaginary worlds created by other authors.
