A Lonely Life Turned to Joy — Doreen Milstead

Amos & Theodosia's Story - When a black man in the small town of Exodus, Kansas, writes away for a mail order bride, little did he know that a petite and very white widow of a British soldier would arrive on the train platform in the neighboring town of Generosity. He had a foreshadowing of what might happen when everyone in town found out, but no idea about how it would all end up.

A Lonely Life With Her Damaged Cowboy - A woman from England decides to get out of London and seek a husband in California and after corresponding with a cowboy, makes her way there. There is nothing to do when he's gone for weeks at a time and she begins to get restless, until an idea about owning their own mercantile store forms. She is nervous about asking him but after something happens to her cowboy, she sees hope on the horizon.