title: Cole's Mail Order Bride
author: Leah, Cia
description: Novelette length: Sweet western romance.
  Cole Gentry knew when his grandma got an idea in her head, there was no getting around it.  She was determined he have a mail order bride.  Before he even got used to the idea of one, she told him his bride would be arriving on the train the very next day.  To complicate matters, his mail order bride was bringing an orphan with her.  It seemed he was going to have a wife and a son at the same time. Being the man he was, Cole was determined to make Bradley's and Elsa's Christmas one to remember no matter how things turned out between them.
  Elsa Goodman lived her life at the orphange where she was left at the age of two.  She dreamed of a home, husband, and family.  When she decided to become a mail order bride, she knew she couldn't leave Bradley behind and was thankful Cole's grandmother arranged for Elsa to bring Bradley with her, with the promise that Cole would adopt him when they married. She was apprehensive about how things would turn out between her and Cole, but at this magical time of the year, her heart held hope for the future.