Historical Mail Order Brides

No one got off the train in the tiny Western town except Kathy Sullivan, and the conductor doesn't bother to call "All aboard!" when the train departs again. The station master disappears and Kathy finds herself alone. But the next moment, she stares in amazement as the whole town turns out in procession to escort her to the church. Kathy's groom, Luke Ferguson, and his brother, Max, lead the crowd. Max's wife, Annabel, takes charge of Kathy and all the wedding arrangements, and Kathy finds herself in the middle of a kind and close-knit family, who eagerly welcome her into the fold. Among them, Max and Annabel's daughter, Adelaide, attaches herself to Kathy and insists on helping prepare her for the altar. After the service, Katy and her new family and all the townspeople repair to the house next door to the church for a reception celebration. But the fairy-tale ending Kathy dreamed of doesn't turn out the way she planned. She and Luke must rise to the occasion to keep their family intact and discover the depth of their new love. In the sphere of beauty, intimacy, and home, Kathy finds a new family and a new calling to fill the void left by unspeakable tragedy.

Lucy Palmer doesn't like Montana, and Montana doesn't like Lucy Palmer. The mountains outside her train car window seem to have a mind of their own, and they seem to watch her and read her innermost thoughts. They seem to understand that she doesn't really fit in here, that she belongs in the sheltered society of Muncie, Indiana. Somewhere out there, her groom waits to take her to her new home in those inscrutable mountains. But when she meets Adam Foley, a young cowboy turned businessman, on the train in Billings, her world flies into a tailspin. She never realized that someone could buck the stolid, heavy life of Frontier Montana to travel the world and seize his destiny for himself. But Adam gets off the train in Great Falls, leaving Lucy to travel the rest of the way to Kalispell alone. When she arrives and meets her groom, Lucy finds herself confronting a future for which she never prepared herself. She must adapt in the face of overwhelming obstacles, and overcome the devastation of betrayal to free herself from the confines of her past. In her final revelation, she discards the shackles of her preconceptions and spreads her wings to soar to the skies.