With little choice, 25 year old Martha Smyth agrees to an arranged marriage to William Andersen. Martha finds herself a wife in name only, caring for William's two children while he serves in the Union Army. While William is away the two begin to exchange letters, will it be enough to make a marriage of convenience blossom into a marriage of love? !!Disclaimer!! This story is largely inspired by a book by Claire Sanders. I've changed characters names and most of the basic plot, but the idea is still inspired by her original book.

As one of Georgia's most successful ranchers, Rhye Collins doesn't have time to even consider dating, but that changes when he meets Katrina Davis. When he sees the beautiful, but broken, girl. It is an instant attraction. It isn't a sexual attraction, but an urge to protect the innocent beauty from a horrible past and an even less desirable future. When he finds out her caregiver is trying to force her into a marriage with a man who thinks she is useless, he steps in and does the only thing a southern cowboy can do and asks her to marry him. Katrina quickly accepts his offer, but doesn't believe she can be the wife he deserves. She has been brought up to believe a woman's place was in the home. A wife, by her definition, is someone who can cook, clean and bare children, things she has never been able to do, not that she has been given the chance. Rhye doesn't believe that, he feels a marriage is a partnership and he is so proud that God gave him Katrina as a partner, but can he convince her of that? Find out in "My Cowboy, My Hero".

Being a mail order bride is hard... dealing with the new in-laws is harder! Irene Bailey misses Missouri more than she could have imagined. The cousin she's living with treats her like a maid, and her life is unraveling fast. When she finds Dr. Theodore Harcourt's ad for a mail order bride,she thinks her problems are solved. But Dr. Harcourt isn't interested in marriage. He's interested in money. His business is failing, and his late father's estate will only go to him on one condition:He needs to be married. Desperate for a way to put his life back in order, he finds a bride the fastest and easiest way possible - through an ad. He never thought he'd get so lucky to find a woman like Irene. Smart as well as beautiful, she's everything he's dreamed of. But his aunt isn't happy. She wants the money for herself and will go to any lengths possible to get it. Money isn't everything, but will Dr. Harcourt realize that in time to save his marriage? Or will Irene and the doctor miss their one chance at true love?

Johanna Dumay came to the city chasing a better future, but what she carried with her was heavier than any suitcase-a heart of stone. Born from a broken home, her life was marked by disappointment, her dreams buried beneath years of loneliness and despair. In a nation that called itself "Christian," Johanna found no comfort-only deeper doubts. If God was truly loving, why had He let her world fall apart? With each passing day, her heart grew colder, her soul hardening into the very image of misery. And then-He showed up. An encounter she never saw coming begins to shatter the walls around her. The life she thought was meaningless is suddenly rewritten by grace, and every morning feels like waking into a miracle she never dared to hope for. This is the story of a woman once lost beyond saving-until love Himself found her. A story that whispers a truth many long to believe: no heart is too hard, no life too broken, no soul too far gone for God. --- "But Johanna-" her voice cracked with disbelief, eyes narrowing as if searching for the girl I once was, "you were the devil's darling all your life. What in the world happened to you!?" I drew in a breath, the weight of every scar, every midnight battle, every broken piece of me pressing into that single moment. "Jesus," I whispered, "Jesus happened to me."

CHRISTIAN WITH A DASH OF ROMANCE. Is beauty a curse? Is it a curse when all everyone sees is the beautiful outside and not the wounded soul hiding inside? The world has never failed to remind Mia Taylor that she's as pretty as they come. Her appearance has been used to the benefit of others. It's no wonder she considers her beauty a flaw, an inconvenient thing that has chained her down. She swears never to do anything to draw more attention to herself but desperate circumstances force her to enter a career in modeling. And even as she lets herself be put on a pedestal, she continues to loathe that quality. But as Mia grows closer to God and good friends, she realizes her beauty isn't a thing to be hated and that she has a right to embrace not just her inner beauty, but her outer beauty.

***WATTPAD FEATURED Nov 2017*** Penniless, hungry, and stranded at a truck stop just before Christmas, Jane Johnson has few options. So when rescue comes in the form of three Kentucky hillbilly brothers--two of them mute--she reluctantly accepts. When they hire her to paint a dilapidated nineteenth-century hotel in middle-of-nowhere Nebraska, she expects nothing more than a few days' work and a meager paycheck. Instead, as the days turn into weeks, she discovers the true renovation is taking place within the brothers--and herself. Initially drawn in by the men's unexpected kindness and droll humor, she's mystified at their reticence to discuss their past. When shocking revelations about their family entwines with her own, she questions all she knows about her history. Soon she must decide if digging for answers is worth tormenting the men who befriended her. "The Marvels of Prairie Creek" is the first installment in a romantic women's fiction serial featuring the most off-the-wall leading man you'll ever meet. If you like slow-burn romances, wry-humored men with mysterious pasts, and true-to-life characters, then you'll love Lynne Mickley's witty tale of life in a small Nebraska town. ***Iron Lace Awards 1st place winner, The Monthly Elimination Awards 1st place winner & Grand Finale winner***

Joshua and Payton finally give themselves over to their love. They have both experienced so much pain and loss in their lives that they are ready to find happiness and find it together. Joshua battles joy and fear when Payton tells him she wants to give him a child of his own. But when the time comes and things don't go the way they wanted how will Joshua deal with this new trial. Payton shuts down and doesn't want to talk to Joshua about their baby. She doesn't want to talk to or see anyone and she turns her back on the people who love her and want to help. They neither one can understand why this trial has happened to them and as Joshua finds Grace with the Lord, Payton blames God for what has happened to them. Can Joshua help Payton through the valley and up the mountain to see the beauty God has in store for them or will she push him away to?

Joshua makes a decision to take in Payton & her two young children after her husband dies. He can see they need his help. He doesn't realize just how much he'll come to need them. Payton is young, widowed and the mother of two small children. She can't survive on her own, miles away from her family. She can't go home either so she accepts Joshua's marriage proposal. They both agree to a marriage in name alone but when things don't go as smoothly as planned Payton decides its time to go back home. Can Joshua convince her to stay & try to make this a REAL marriage? Only God knows.