title: Living At The Edge Of Life
author: Carvo, Vanessa
description: The California Cowboy & The Pregnant & Jilted English Orphan  - An English woman is jilted by her boyfriend after he promises to marry her and she becomes pregnant. She makes the long trip out to California to become the mail order bride of a farmer who appears alternately angry about her arrival, and reclusive at the same time. It takes a while for the woman to ferret out the truth but friends she meets along the way help, and eventually she sees a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
  Two Red Headed Sisters For The Colorado Brothers - Two women from Russia take the long journey to America and their soon to be husbands, not realizing that they could be stranded in Chicago because of legal disputes between the railways. The brothers have heard about the potential trouble so they make their way to meet their wives, along with a third brother who is a troublemaker.
  A Blended Family By Spring For The Widower - A woman is shocked when the pastor at their church suggests that by spring, he could see all of the single women in his congregation married. She begins a correspondence with a man and also knows that a neighbor is corresponding with a woman himself. A very surprising meeting occurs as she and her daughter travel to Kansas City for a first meeting.
  Praying For A Cowboy Who Has One Hand, is about a woman and her sister who are sent out to Texas for one of them to be a mail order bride to a disabled war veteran rancher with one hand, and as a new mother to his two children. The rancher hadn’t known he could ever love again, but when he first saw Beth, he realized instantly that she would be the one to save him. His brother is there at the ranch and he realizes that he’s also in love with Beth’s sister. Their life and love together develops slowly, until something happens later that will change six lives forever.