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