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Escape to the West
Series · 8 books · 2016-2020

Books in series

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#1

No One's Bride

2016

A mail order bride with no intention of marrying, a young postmaster determined to change her mind. It's 1870 and Amy Watts needs help, money, and to get as far away from New York City as possible, and her only hope is to answer an advertisement for a mail order bride. The last thing she wants, however, is a husband. When her plan to trick the postmaster of the small Californian town of Green Hill Creek into paying her way across the country goes awry, her guilty conscience compels her to stay and find a way to repay him the cost of the train ticket. The trouble is, she's completely unprepared for the effect of Adam Emerson's kindness, charm, wit, and ridiculously blue eyes. As her dream of a new life in San Francisco begins to falter and her past catches up with her, can Amy hold onto the one thing she never thought she'd want, but now can't bear to lose? This uplifting Christian romance will transport you to a time of courageous women searching for a better life and the strong men dedicated to winning their hearts. Buy now and lose yourself in this heartwarming love story.
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#2

A Hope Unseen

2017

Will her love be enough to save him?Sara Worthing is determined that she'll only marry for love, even if it means becoming a mail order bride and travelling all the way across the country to find it. Following a long correspondence, when she finally meets farmer Daniel Raine she has no doubt she's made the right choice. Daniel is kind, strong, caring, impossibly handsome, and his deepest desire is for a wife and family to love. He's everything Sara has been dreaming of.Until the accident.When he suffers a terrible injury that throws all his careful plans into doubt, Daniel sinks into despair, pushing both God and his new wife away. Facing rejection from her husband and with a man she met on the train paying her unwanted attention, Sara begins to wonder if love is enough to keep her dreams alive.Six mail order brides, one small Californian town, a lot of romance! The Escape to the West series tells the stories of five young women in 1870 who travel across the country to find love. These uplifting Christian historical romances will transport you to a time of courageous women longing for a better life and the strong men dedicated to winning their hearts. Each novel can be read on its own or as part of the series.
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#3

The Wayward Heart

2017

A heart isn't always the best thing to follow.Lizzy Cotton dreams of excitement, adventure, and falling madly in love with a cowboy, and she knows she's perfect to be a cattle rancher's mail order bride.But dreams don't always turn out as planned.Once she reaches the ranch, her new husband seems determined to avoid her and, bored and lonely, she strikes up a friendship with young ranch hand Elijah. As she loses hope for her marriage and her feelings for Elijah grow, Lizzy fears that coming to California has been a big mistake. One from which she can't escape.Six mail order brides, one small Californian town, a lot of romance! The Escape to the West series tells the stories of six young women in 1870 who travel across the country to find love. These uplifting Christian historical romances will transport you to a time of courageous women longing for a better life and the strong men dedicated to winning their hearts. Each novel can be read on its own or as part of the series.
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#4

An Unexpected Groom

2017

In the war between heart and mind, which side do you take?Despite her impoverished background, Louisa knows she will marry well. Her parents have told her so her entire life. So a young accountant advertising for a mail order bride seems perfect.But when Louisa arrives in the small California town of Green Hill Creek, she discovers that Jesse Johnson has been keeping a secret that could ruin all her plans. Even worse, the more time she spends with him, the less those plans seem to matter.For the first time in her life, Louisa finds herself doubting everything she's been raised to believe, and her heart waking to new possibilities. Possibilities that may involve falling in love.Six mail order brides, one small Californian town, a lot of romance! The Escape to the West series tells the stories of five young women in 1870 who travel across the country to find love. These uplifting Christian historical romances will transport you to a time of courageous women longing for a better life and the strong men dedicated to winning their hearts. Each novel can be read on its own or as part of the series.
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#5

The Truth About Love

2018

Men are nothing but trouble. So why can’t she resist this one?Josephine Carter is done with men. A runaway father, her mother’s lecherous ‘admirers’, the man she thought she’d marry abandoning her and taking all their money with him... none of them are any good.Trouble is, she’s now alone, penniless, and worst of all, pregnant.Her only solution is to become a mail order bride, travel across the country to California, and convince her new husband that the baby is his. What could be simpler? Plenty, as it turns out, when she discovers love is more important to her than she thought, and giving herself to a man she doesn’t care for proves downright impossible.But in the midst of an uncertain future, Jo might just find the hero she’s not looking for. And the salvation she never knew she needed.​Six mail order brides, one small Californian town, a lot of romance! The Escape to the West series tells the stories of six young women in 1870 who travel across the country to find love. These uplifting Christian historical romances will transport you to a time of courageous women longing for a better life and the strong men dedicated to winning their hearts. Each novel can be read on its own or as part of the series.
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#7

The Judge's Daughter

2019

They’re a world apart. Is love enough to keep them together?After being a widower for almost half his life, fifty-one-year-old George Parsons didn’t count on ever falling for a woman again, until Millicent came along. After meeting her in his tiny home town of Green Hill Creek, he’s smitten. So when Millie asks him to visit her in New York, he doesn’t hesitate to make the week-long journey from California to see her again.But what was easy in Green Hill Creek seems next to impossible in the city, and in the midst of the ostentatious wealth and desperate poverty of 1870 New York, George will have to overcome snobbery, prejudice and danger to win Millie’s heart.Seven brides, one small Californian town, a lot of romance! The Escape to the West series tells the stories of the residents of Green Hill Creek and their journeys to finding love. These uplifting Christian historical romances will transport you to a time of courageous women longing for a better life and the strong men dedicated to winning their hearts. Each novel can be read on its own or as part of the series.
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#8

Courting Will

2020

How can the right man be so infuriatingly wrong? Daisy and Will have been not courting for a year. At first, that was a good thing. When Will began spending time with her and her young son, only four months had passed since the death of Daisy’s husband, and having her childhood friend around eased her loneliness and pain. But now, a year later, Will is still spending time with her, and they’re still not courting, and it’s beginning to feel like not such a good thing. But with his wild past, Will is convinced he shouldn’t be a husband or father, so Daisy decides to take matters into her own hands. If he won’t court her, she’ll court him. Until Will’s past catches up with him, and threatens to tear them apart forever. Eight brides, one small Californian town, a lot of romance! The Escape to the West series tells the stories of the residents of Green Hill Creek and their journeys to finding love. These uplifting Christian historical romances will transport you to a time of courageous women longing for a better life and the strong men dedicated to winning their hearts. Each novel can be read on its own or as part of the series.
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#9

The Stable Hand Lord

2020

Lord Aaron Wetherington, third son of the Marquess of Ipswich, is a very long way out of his depth. Having traveled to California to make up for the mistakes of his past, he runs, literally, into Jemima Wood. And his whole world changes. Jem doesn’t know Aaron is a nobleman, but she likes him anyway, and he decides to stay for as long as it takes to win her heart. He has two problems, however. First, his father has stopped his allowance, and funds are rapidly running out. And second, there’s a rival for Jem’s affections, one who is, as far as she knows, a far better prospect than Aaron. So he’ll have to find a job and learn how to attract a woman without using his title, and he has no idea how to accomplish either. But for Jem, he’ll do anything. He just wants her to love him for who he is. And for that, he’ll have to risk losing her before he’s even won. Nine brides, one small Californian town, a lot of romance! The Escape to the West series tells the stories of the residents of Green Hill Creek and their journeys to finding love. These uplifting Christian historical romances will transport you to a time of courageous women longing for a better life and the strong men dedicated to winning their hearts. Each novel can be read on its own or as part of the series.

Author

Nerys Leigh
Nerys Leigh
Author · 13 books

Nerys Leigh writes wildly romantic stories about American mail order brides, which could be considered strange as she is British and has never been married. But she thinks the old adage of writing what you know is codswallop. She thinks cheesecake and white chocolate are mankind's greatest inventions. One day she’ll eat a white chocolate cheesecake and her life will be complete. She loves nothing more than to guide her heroes and heroines to true love and then find out that other people adore her characters as much as she does. If you sign up for her newsletter at http://eepurl.com/b-Gj2T she will he so ridiculously grateful that she’ll give you a free novella called The Blacksmith’s Heart, the story of a widowed single father who finds the love of his life a second time. Nerys hasn’t ever used the word codswallop before. It’s likely she never will again.

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