{"product_id":"9781683221340","title":"Seven Brides for Seven Mail-Order Husbands Romance Collection: A Newspaper Ad for Husbands Brings a Wave of Men to a Small Kansas Town","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeven women seek husbands to help them rebuild a Kansas town.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meet seven of Turtle Springs, Kansas’, finest women who are determined to revive their small town after the War Between the States took most of its men. . .and didn’t return them. The ladies decide to advertise for husbands and devise a plan for weeding out the riff raff. But how can they make the best practical choices when their hearts cry out to be loved?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbigail’s Proposal\u003c\/i\u003e by Cynthia Hickey\u003cbr\u003e When her father never returned from the war, Abigail Melton stepped into his role as town mayor. The town needs men, and she needs a husband—and she has a big idea how to find both—but her first duty is to hire a sheriff. And drifter Josiah Ingram will do just fine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Kidnapped Groom\u003c\/i\u003e by Susan Page Davis\u003cbr\u003e Riding through the Flint Hills on his way to Dodge City, cowboy Sam Cayford finds himself the kidnapping victim of two children. When he meets their lovely mother, Maggie Piner—whom the kids insist he should marry—Sam starts to question God’s plans versus his own.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Clean Slate \u003c\/i\u003eby Susanne Dietze\u003cbr\u003e Schoolmarm Roberta “Birdy” Green won’t marry any of the prospective grooms flocking to town. After losing her fiancé in the war, the only love her broken heart can bear is for her students. But then she takes on a new pupil—Drew Cooper, one of the gentlemen drawn to Kansas by the advertisement for grooms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunshine of My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e by Darlene Franklin\u003cbr\u003e Debbie Barker longs to bring beauty to her new home on the prairie, where her family moved after the war, and seeks a husband to help her father run the ranch. Zack Gage returned home from the war to a life in ruins—family dead and business bankrupted. He answers the mail-order husband ad to seek a fresh start. But neither Debbie nor Zeke know what they are doing when it comes to ranching. . .or love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCome What May\u003c\/i\u003e by Patty Smith Hall\u003cbr\u003e Chardy Stevens is at the end of her rope. Between running her late father’s store and tending to her four younger brothers, she barely has time to breathe, much less look for a husband to help her. The boys scare off most of her prospects and throw Chardy together with her childhood friend Luke, a disabled veteran who seeks her happiness above his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDime Novel Suitor\u003c\/i\u003e by Carrie Fancett Pagels\u003cbr\u003e Widow Caroline Kane is the proprietor of a restaurant and inn—and responsible for her five teenaged siblings. But she has no plans of finding a mail-order groom. Britisher Barden Granville IV is on a “cowboy holiday” when he finds himself flat broke in Kansas.  When he answers an old “help wanted” ad, Caroline misconstrues Barden is there as a potential husband. Will the beautiful and fiesty widow cause the new vicar to make Kansas his home?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLouder than Words\u003c\/i\u003e by Gina Welborn\u003cbr\u003e After years of writing abolitionist pamphlets and chronicling soldier life during the war, J.R. Lockhart is bored and jumps at the opportunity to investigate an advertisement for husbands for an article in Godey’s Lady’s Book. Jane Ransome would like to help the charming-but-oblivious-to-life-out-West man chronicle the courtships developing in town, but she has her own husband to find—one who will fit perfectly in her picket-fenced Kansas home.","brand":"Barbour Publishing, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178208608496,"sku":"9781683221340","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781683221340_p0.jpg?v=1763699272","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781683221340","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}