title: Out from Darkness
author: Milstead, Doreen
description: Falling For The Mysterious Stranger On The Boat - An upper class Victorian woman decides to take the plunge after being widowed and travels to her mail order husband in Texas, with only her dog and her maid at her side.
  The Widow Coppersmith & Theo In Exodus, Kansas - 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.
  Helping The Wounded Warrior & His Children - A woman decides to go to Texas, along with her sister, to become the wife of a man with two children, who was injured in the Civil War.
  Saving Lonely Crippled Thomas, is about Thomas, who lives virtually alone in his house in Pennsylvania with only his cousin to look after him.