He’s struggling to raise three children alone after losing his wife in an influenza epidemic two years earlier.Annalise Hudson is a woman happy in life. She works long hours in the family diner which she inherited when her mama and daddy were killed in a freak accident.Wade’s eldest daughter thinks it’s about time he remarried, but he’s having none of her suggestion to advertise for a mail-order bride.Annalise is forced to make a decision she wasn’t ready for when her world is tipped upside down.Can these two make a life together when their meeting is based on deceit?

    How can they find each other’s hearts when faith in His plan is all they need?Read and ye shall find Me…After her mother’s tragic death, Anna, a scarred young woman, grew up in the orphanage. When her beloved orphanage burns down, and a scorched mail-order bride ad finds her way to her, it seems like God shows her the way out West. However, Anna struggles with her husband because he’s chosen a purposeless life. How can she warm his soul when he’s so dismissive of God’s plan?Houston is a stubborn young rancher and he doesn’t easily accept help from others. Placing an ad is just out of necessity to find a mother for his brothers. His growing feelings about Anna will start to soften his heart, but that will scare him away making him even more distant. How can he finally let go of his fears and accept this Godsent bride in his heart?God brought the two together with a command but it is up to them to make things work. How can they defeat danger coming their way and trust in God’s plan even if it’s terrifying to open up their hearts again?

    The legwork is done for you. The chapter-by-chapter guides incorporate research-based, high-order reading, writing and thinking activities. (This is NOT the paperback novel.)

    What was unusual was how seriously he took it. This is a classic western filled with suspense, and an underlying romance. In the Louis L'Amour tradition. Buckshot by L. J. Martin