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description: Ellie Marston woke up one cold winter morning excited that she will be seeing her fiancé of six months who had been gone on a business trip for the last two weeks. By evening, her life had drastically changed, and she doesn’t think she will ever recover from the shock.  Six months later, Ellie’s sister wants to become a mail-order bride to a man she’s been corresponding with from Santa Fe. She wants Ellie to go with her, but in order to go, Ellie will also need to agree to become a mail-order bride. Hesitantly, Ellie agrees with her sister’s plan, but only has one stipulation; she will never love again.  Samuel Warner’s wife died two years ago, leaving him with two young children. He starts to realize that they desperately need a mother and so he places an ad in an Eastern Newspaper to find them one. He likes what he sees from Ellie’s letters and offers her a marriage in name only.  Once Ellie arrives in Santa Fe and they marry, they both need to learn how to form a new family. Samuel is afraid to let Ellie become his children’s true mother, while Ellie tries to be perfect in every way, but feels like she is failing miserably.  Will Ellie and Samuel discover what it means to be a real family? Will they learn that that love can develop in even the unexpected places? Will Christmas time be a season full of joy and happiness or one that is filled with disappointment and sorrow?
title: The Christmas Mail Order Bride