Lily Wilspur
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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...
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Mail Order Bride Ellen Mortimer receives a shock when she meets her groom, Elliot Wilkins, at the railway station. Elliot wants to take Ellen to the church immediately before driving her to his homestead to start their life together. Ellen braces herself and they complete the ceremony. Outside the church, Ellen gets another shock when she sees an enormous wolf in the wagon box standing astride her trunk. She screams in horror, but Elliot only laughs...
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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...
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Mary Allen lost her husband at the tender age of twenty-two, and she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life as a widow. But her aging father protests when she has the idea to get a mail-order husband. He wants Mary's attention for himself. If she must remarry, he wants to arrange the marriage himself, with one of the sons of his friends, the way he did Mary's first marriage. But Mary insists on marrying a man of her own choosing, a man new to...
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Nineteen-year-old Lou Ann Hawkins is on her way to Ogden, Utah, to meet her groom. But just as she prepares to get off the train to begin her new life, a man stops her. "Don't go out there," he warns her. "There's a gun battle going on." Trapped in the doorway of the train car, Lou Ann witnesses the horror of seeing a man gunned down in the middle of the street. But her horror grows when the townspeople and the passengers getting off the train flock...