Keating: 302 books

Alice’s Many Children: A woman with a heart bursting from love, gathers together orphans who many would have rejected, and when she struggles to maintain her large household, an ad for a mail order bride catches her eye.Taking Beth West On Her Last Journey: Secretly in love with her, a man helps a dying woman with her last wish; go west to California

Note: This powerful and wryly told story does contain a small amount of mild Old West violence and language, but it is suitable for those readers over 16. Synopsis: A crusty accountant turned bartender places an ad in a newspaper for a year to get an English mail order bride, then promptly...

Mail Order Bride: Charles & Ramona & The Wolves Of The Forest, is about a high society woman in NYC who gets sent off to Oregon to be the bride of a lonely outpost operator. He is as stunned by her beauty when she gets off the train, as she is by the wilderness surrounding his cabin and home. She...

Mail Order Bride: Rejected By The English Lord, But Welcomed By The Rancher - A woman who is minor royalty leaves the confines of her family home in England, to visit with a friend in America. As soon as she arrives she sees a newspaper advertisement for mail order brides and shortly after that, she’s...

Mail Order Bride: The Overweight Fish Seller From Maine - An overweight woman from Maine is tired of running her father’s fish selling shop and spending her days hacking off fish heads, so she decides to take a chance on love and travels to California and a rancher with three children. It’s an...

The Western Mail Order Bride: James Gets His Georgia Peach, gives us the story of James, who settled in California and made a life and homestead and ranch for himself along with his brother and his wife. He was missing something and when he figured out what it was, he wrote to his Aunt Maggie about...

A pregnant widow is taken by a crotchety old matchmaker to a silver miner in Nevada, but when she meets him she’s rather taken aback by his scruffy appearance and drunken habits. And, she doesn’t know how he’ll take the news of her pregnancy.

The Dark Cowboy, is about a distraught doctor who can take no more of sickness and death in cholera-ridden New York City, and he answers an ad in the Mail Order Brides section of the newspaper, from a woman seeking help on her ranch and friendship; but not marriage. He decides to keep his doctor past...

Belinda’s Beloved Family Bible, is a story about a young Irish heritage woman traveling across the Oregon Trail and headed West, with her single parent father. Her mother had died giving birth to her and the treasured family bible held her only memories. On a rugged river crossing the bible is lost...

Room For One In The Back Of The Wagon, is the story about a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail and the many challenges they face along the way. The family bible is their source of inspiration and for one young woman a guide to her growing love for a young man ‘a few wagons over’. Each...

Three sisters from London decide to travel to America to become mail order brides when their parents pass away. Two sisters get along well with two brothers, but the third one feels left out and bitter. She makes a decision later that her sisters feel she may regret.

Traveling The Oregon Trail With Our Family Bible, is the story of one young woman and her family heading out West using the Oregon Trail, and along for the ride is an ex-army soldier with a troubled past. All are tested by chances at life and death and tragedy and also joy, and in the end it’s faith...

A Mail Order Bride For The Sheriff -- A sheriff in the West has almost everything a man could wish for, except for a bride. He asks his tavern owner aunt for advice and help and she sends him the almost perfect woman. Why she isn’t perfect remains a secret until she can wait no longer to tell him,...

One Bible’s Journey Along The Oregon Trail: Aaron & Elizabeth’s Story, is about two young people traveling West in the same wagon train, but with disparate beliefs about God. It’s basically the entire wagon train against Aaron and his family and his abrasive father. Through his songs around...