Unexpected Bride

Series · 6 books · 2023

By Margaret Tanner

Books in series

Unexpected Bride Annie

2023

A letter was supposed to be sent, but it never arrived. This letter sets off a chain reaction that could destroy the lives of Annie and Reed. Widowed and with a small child to support, Annie sets off for Nevada expecting to marry Reed. Betrayed by Josephine, the woman he has always loved, Reed is shocked when her sister Annie arrives unexpectedly to marry him. What chance does this marriage have with the specter of Josephine always creating a barrier between them?

Unexpected Bride Maddie

2023

Bounty hunter Slade McEwan unexpectedly becomes a husband and also a father to four children. Schoolteacher, Maddie Hinkley, is forced to marry Slade to protect the four orphaned children in her care. On the arduous and dangerous wagon journey taking the children to their grandparent’s ranch, will the couple fall in love, or will it merely remain a marriage of convenience? How can they bear to hand their little charges over once they arrive at their destination? Is there any other choice open to them?

Unexpected Bride Emmie

2023

Brad never dreamed an unexpected bride would be thrust upon him just for doing a good deed. Emmie never expected to marry the man who brought news of her husband’s death. To pay a debt to the man who had saved his brother’s life, Brad reluctantly agrees to hire Austin Devereux as a trail hand with tragic results. If she loses her home, Emmie Devereaux will lose her son, as well. Can the hasty marriage neither Emmie nor Brad wants, possibly end well, or will it destroy both of their lives?

Unexpected Bride Bonnie

2023

Join the adventures of a female wagon train boss. Her father’s accident forces Bonnie Sweeney to guide a wagon train of women and children from New Mexico to Cheyenne. Stalked then attacked by marauding Comancheros, the wagon train is rescued by passing drovers. Trail boss, Dean McClintock, has no choice but to reluctantly escort these women to safety. Will Bonnie, the wagon train guide, turn out to be an unexpected bride for the trail boss, Dean? Or will they part company in Cheyenne and go their separate way?

Unexpected Bride Jessie

2023

Two little boys on the run from a harsh orphanage find sanctuary with old Sam Denyer, but… Sam knows he won’t be able to keep them, although Jessie might. After two years away, Jessie returns to her grandfather only to find him hiding two small boys. To adopt them she needs a husband. Will their reclusive neighbor, Sloane Beckham, agree to marry her? If so, is this union doomed to failure, or will love overcome past traumas and dark secrets?

Unexpected Bride Sophie

2023

A wronged heroine. A man who was betrayed. Defrauded by a scheming woman, proud rancher, Kirby Dalton, dreads going home without a wife. He values his reputation above all else. Due to circumstances beyond her control, Sophie is almost destitute. A marriage of convenience would solve both their problems. What will Kirby do when he finds out his wife’s father and brothers were hanged for cattle rustling? Can their fledgling marriage overcome such a devastating revelation?

Author

Margaret Tanner

Author · 101 books

Margaret Tanner is an award winning, best selling author. As well as writing historical novels set in frontier Australia she has discovered a love for writing Western Romance. Her novella, Edwina of Connecticut is one of the 50 novels in the American Mail Order Bride series. Christmas Cowboy is in the Western Christmas Anthology, Silver Belles And Stetsons. . She has had numerous short stories published over the years, but writing Historical romance novels is her passion. Her favourite historical period is the 1st World War. Not only has she painstakingly researched this era, but was fortunate enough to make a poignant pilgrimage to the battlefields of Gallipoli (in Turkey), France and Belgium. She is married with three grown up sons, and two gorgeous grand-daughters. Margaret lives in Australia. She has recently retired from work, and hopes to concentrate on her writing.