Promised To The Prairie Collection
Emma Ashwood
It takes a special kind of courage to marry a stranger.
This inspiring collection brings together ten heartwarming historical romances, each following a brave mail order bride as she journeys into the unknown. Some flee troubled pasts — broken engagements, family scandal, or the suffocating grip of a life already written for them. Others chase a dream too big for the parlour walls they were raised within, hungry for independence, purpose, and the wide open sky they've only ever read about in letters postmarked from places they can't yet picture. And some simply follow a quiet whisper of faith, trusting that destiny will play its part even though the path ahead looks nothing like the one they imagined.
All of them carry one thing in common: hope.
What awaits them is never quite what they expected. Stubborn ranchers who've forgotten how to let anyone close. Weather-beaten cowboys more comfortable with cattle than conversation. Homesteads held together by little more than stubbornness and prayer. Children in need of a mother's touch. Neighbours who don't take kindly to outsiders. And vast, wild, breathtaking land that demands as much from the spirit as it does from the body.
But beneath the hardship, something tender takes root. A shared glance across a lantern-lit supper table. A steady hand offered without being asked. The slow, hard-won trust between two people who chose each other on paper and now must choose each other in truth, one ordinary day at a time.
These are stories of grit and grace. Of women who refused to let fear make their decisions and men who learned that real strength has nothing to do with pride. Of small towns that become home, and strangers who become family. Of faith tested and deepened, of second chances seized, and of the kind of love that isn't struck like a match but built like a homestead — plank by plank, season by season, with hands that never stop reaching for each other.
If you love historical western romance filled with courage, inspiration, and the promise that even the loneliest prairie has room for tenderness, this collection will sweep you off your feet — ten times over, each with the happy ever after ending these brave heroines deserve.
This collection contains the following stories:
The Widow's New Horizon
The Cowboy's Motherless Baby
Forged In Fire
Finding A Brother For Jessica
The Homestead Heart
Captivated by the Cowboy's Charm
Running to Love
Lillian's Secret
A Bride For Two Brothers
Perfect for fans of clean and wholesome western romance, frontier fiction, and inspirational historical love stories.
