Callie Whitfield loves nothing more than reading and writing, but her stern mother doesn’t approve. In her eyes, a young woman needs a husband instead of a hobby, and she’s determined to correct her errant daughter. When she catches Callie with ink on her fingers yet again, she gives her daughter a final punishment… sending her off to marry a homesteader in Nebraska.

Callie is resentful, and though Edwin Turner seems like a kind enough man she isn’t sure she’s cut out for frontier life or motherhood. It becomes even worse when Edwin agrees with Callie’s mother that writing is a waste of time.

Will Callie’s passion and gift win through, and will Edwin finally see the beauty of his young wife’s words?

Callie’s story is one of the amazing tales in the Western romance collection, Young Love Historical Romance Volume 4, by #1 bestselling clean Christian romance author Misty Shae.

Susan Winter is savagely widowed by the Civil War, but her scars go back much further than that. Her husband Bentley was not the type of man a woman could mourn for long.

Anxious to leave behind bad memories, Susan takes up her friends’ suggestion of consulting a bridal agency, and soon decides on a man who, if he lives up to his name, should prove a much gentler one than her former husband. His name is Donald Lamb.

She travels with her two children to his home in Spokane, but shortly after they arrive, tragedy strikes.

Heartbroken, Susan’s faith falters. Too much pain and suffering cause her to doubt the existence of a loving Father God. Desperate to help his wife, Donald sends up an ardent prayer, and God gives him an idea. But can love heal Susan’s wounds? And can she learn to trust that God is good, even in the face of the worst kind of pain?

Civil War Brides trilogy follows the journey of three women forged together in firm friendship through the fire of tragedy. The depth of emotion evoked by the circumstances they face and overcome is truly touching. And it is the quality of their friendship that shines the light in the darkness, leading each of them to a second chance love that they never imagined possible.

Charlotte Beads had just lost a baby when her beloved husband John was sent to war – a war from which he never returned.

Unlike her friends, Susan and Abigail, she is left childless and questioning her place in the world, so she picks up an old dream and renews her studies to become a schoolteacher. She is ready to find work when she’s called out to Spokane to help Susan through a difficult time. Figuring she can find work as a teacher just as easily in Spokane as in Charleston, she heads west with no thought of going home again.

The journey is a difficult one, but along the way she meets three people who will change her life: Madeleine Ellis, who immediately becomes Charlotte’s guardian angel; a drunken Union soldier, who causes her nothing but trouble; and a friendly but painfully shy shopkeeper by the name of Connor Hayes….

Civil War Brides trilogy follows the journey of three women forged together in firm friendship through the fire of tragedy. The depth of emotion evoked by the circumstances they face and overcome is truly touching. And it is the quality of their friendship that shines the light in the darkness, leading each of them to a second chance love that they never imagined possible.