Pearl's Mail Order Brides Series by Jacqueline Carmine

Judd has left his old life behind. A wanted man in the southern states, he has faked his death to start over in Bramble, Colorado as a law-abiding man. Accustomed to a life on the run he has no idea how to court the fairer sex. Seeking to find a wife he sends a letter to Pearl's Matchmaking. The bride who answers his letter knocks him off his feet with her beauty and her wit.Charlotte is a daughter whose only value is through marriage... moreJudd has left his old life behind. A wanted man in the southern states, he has faked his death to start over in Bramble, Colorado as a law-abiding man. Accustomed to a life on the run he has no idea how to court the fairer sex. Seeking to find a wife he sends a letter to Pearl's Matchmaking. The bride who answers his letter knocks him off his feet with her beauty and her wit.Charlotte is a daughter whose only value is through marriage. Her mother has a plan to marry her to the son of her father's business partner. She doesn't care that Charlotte wants to marry for love and not for money or society. So, Charlotte signs up to be a mail order bride. If she has to marry, it will be to a man of her choosing.Together they find a passion that will set their hearts on fire.With Charlotte's mother seeking her daughter's return and Judd's former partner seeking revenge, will they band together or will Judd push Charlotte away for her own good?A prequel to the Crescent Ridge Mail Order Bride series this novella is set in the year 1881. Each novella in the series features a different couple with a guaranteed HEA, no cheating, and no OWD. less

Benjamin never learned to read or write so he has the local postmaster write his letter to Pearl's Mail Order Brides in hopes of having a woman pick him. Unbeknownst to him the postmaster writes that he is too lazy to write his own letter.I'm always the matchmaker but never the bride.He's the larger than life Texan who shows up at my office demanding a bride.A spinster of twenty-five that men never look at twice I've made peace with never being a wife. No men have ever turned my head until now... moreBenjamin never learned to read or write so he has the local postmaster write his letter to Pearl's Mail Order Brides in hopes of having a woman pick him. Unbeknownst to him the postmaster writes that he is too lazy to write his own letter.I'm always the matchmaker but never the bride.He's the larger than life Texan who shows up at my office demanding a bride.A spinster of twenty-five that men never look at twice I've made peace with never being a wife. No men have ever turned my head until now. The man who storms into the office is straight out of the dime novels I read in secret. He's rugged and gruff unlike the gentlemen of Philadelphia society but one look is all it takes to have me packing my bags and boarding a train to Texas.It's time for this matchmaker to become a bride.Each steamy novella in the world of Crescent Ridge has an HEA, no owd, no cheating and can be read in an hour or two.Pearl's Mail Order Brides is a spinoff of the Crescent Ridge Mail Order Brides less