Brides of Pelican Rapids

Series · 5 books · 2019-2020

By Lisa M. Prysock, Tina Dee, Elaine Manders

Books in series

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.

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.

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!

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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?

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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!

Authors

Lisa M. Prysock

Author · 19 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.