Beatrice The Maid & Farmer Flint — An English woman, first a scullery maid then an indentured servant in New York, escapes to become a mail ordered bride thanks to the assistance of a young nun. Her fiancé is eager to get married, but only after they become acquainted. A crisis as they head into town one day gets the ball rolling.Emma & The Restoration of a Soldier — A woman with one hand goes west to a mail ordered husband that her father has arranged for her before he died. On the train she meets up with a group of Civil War injured soldiers and one special young man who becomes a friend. However, when she meets her husband for the first time he runs out as he looks at her beautifully carved hand replacement and she believes that she may never see him again. She starts a workshop where she and a craftsman build hands and legs for people in town who have lost limbs from the war or accidents. Her reputation spreads until one day, her husband shows up unexpectedly at her workshop while she is fitting a limb for her soldier friend.Delivery Refused? is a novella about a lonely California rancher who requests a mail order bride, but considers sending her back when she tells him adamantly that she doesn't want to get married yet — or ever.Left Out, Leftover & Overweight — An overweight woman, beautiful inside and out, believes she will never achieve happiness like her average weight sisters have. She decides to take the plunge and heads out to California and to a widower with two children.