Stella McCord wants a new start to help erase a rambunctious past and decides to become a mail-order bride. Hoping for acceptance and love, she is greeted by a crumbling, old hotel and a suspicious fiancé. When Travis Stone wins a rundown hotel in a card game, he hopes to escape his lawless past. All he needs is a trusted manage to help him run his property. Believing a wife would be cheaper, he advertises for a mail-order bride. Will Travis get his wish and acquire a stable employee or will Stella have other ideas regarding their upcoming marriage arrangement?

Hailey Jefferson doesn’t want a husband. Needing to escape her mother’s mortifying reputation, she decides to become a mail-order bride…but only on her terms. Giving her husband a trial marriage seems the perfect plan until she realizes he wants more. Orphaned as a young boy, Alex Croft dreams of having his own family and figures a mail-order bride is the solution to his life’s void. However, when Hailey announces a trial marriage, he has only until Christmas Eve to convince her to stay. Will his wish come true or will Hailey break his lonely heart?

A new name and a new life can't erase a dangerous past. Secrets always find you. Trying to escape a controlling outlaw and regain her freedom, Alayna Kimbal answers a mail-order bride request. Shouldering the new responsibilities of being a wife and mother, she hopes her new husband never learns about her dangerous past or her present lies. US Marshal Jerome Riddick recently inherited three children after the murder of his best friend. Struggling to care for the children and do his job, he decides to take a bride...only to find out she has been keeping a huge secret from him. A secret that could get them all killed. Other Books in the Mail-Order Brides of the Southwest series: Lucie: Bride of Tennessee, Prequel The Gambler's Mail-Order Bride, book 1 The Bookseller's Mail-Order Bride, book 2 The Marshal's Mail-Order Bride, book 3 The Woodworker's Mail-Order Bride, book 4 The Gunslinger's Mail-Order Bride, book 5 The Agent's Mail-Order Bride, book 6

Ashamed of his criminal past, Anthony Trevain is living the solitary life he wants, but when he finds himself raising his orphaned younger sister, he’s forced to take a bride. Marriage to Rebecca is nothing like he thought, each day a struggle as he tries to keep his past a secret and his wife at arms’ length. To provide for his new family, he must accept a job from the one man who could put him back in the criminal life. To escape the clutches of her society- driven mother, Rebecca Townsend flees Baltimore as a mail-order bride. When she arrives in the mining town of Creede, Colorado, nothing is as she thought it would be. Rebecca falls in love with the stranger she married, but does Anthony love her enough to make their marriage work? A series of incidents puts Rebecca and Anthony, their family, and friends in grave danger. Will their new family be torn apart before they can come together? STEAM LEVEL: Sweet

Fearing the threat of prostitution, Dallas Paxton escapes years of captivity by traveling under the guise of a mail-order bride. After her stagecoach is ambushed by an Apache war party, she escapes yet again with the help of a wanted murderer. Known as “the Apache”, Flynn Malone is wanted for a murder he did not commit. Running from vigilantes, he stumbles across his old nemesis, Geronimo, as his war party attacks a stagecoach and its passengers, including a courageous redhead who is in over her head. Working together has proven successful for Flynn and Dallas in escaping their enemies, so far, but will they lose their hearts in the process?

Pinkerton agent, Matthew Tate, has many secrets to hide. He must keep his past hidden while trying to save a small Utah mining town from the clutches of a tyrant. When his female partner doesn’t arrive, he must scramble to replace his “bride” and cover story. Having lost everything after the War Between the States, Catriona Stewart travels west as a mail-order bride, only to discover her groom has been murdered. Overhearing the Pinkerton agent’s dilemma, she agrees to fill in as his bride. She believes her luck is beginning to change until she discovers that all is not as it seems with her new husband. What has she gotten herself into now?