Susannah Calloway has 31 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 26 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Married for Convenience Only.
The Groom's Obligation
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Thrown together by fate, held together by love... Beau Dawson never saw eye to eye with his father, so he left home to live with his Uncle James in Texas, years ago. James taught him how to be a bounty hunter, and Beau has been content with his life. When Beau gets word his father has died, he travels back home to Arkansas to see his mother and brother. Upon arrival, he learns of his father’s will, demanding that Beau marry within 90 days of the elder Dawson’s death. He even ordered his attorney to place an advert for a mail order bride for his youngest son. Rose Lancaster was born and bred in Boston. After her husband dies, she thinks her life is over. Her father is determined to help and makes a contract for her with a mail order bride agency. When Beau and Rose finally meet, sparks fly. Can this mismatched couple ever find a way to live together, let alone live happily ever after?
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Married for Convenience Only
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Two years ago, Quincy Sinclair lost his beloved wife. He walls off his heart, placing his attention solely on his cotton crops and raising his two young children. He counts heavily on his sister’s help, not only with running the home, but in caring for his traumatized children - particularly his son who hasn’t spoken since his mother’s death. When Quincy’s sister announces her betrothal and imminent move across the country, Quincy is frantic. How can he survive without Helena’s help? But Helena has an idea. She sends for a Mail Order Bride for him. At first angry, Quincy finally agrees to a marriage of convenience. But Alma Fairman has different ideas. She wants romance, a beau who loves her, and a real marriage. So when she gets to Arkansas, she is devastated. Quincy’s two beautiful children are her only consolation. When she succeeds in getting Quincy’s son to talk, she prays that this might become the catalyst that sparks affection between herself and Quincy. But she is completely unprepared for his reaction. And then tragedy strikes. It seems like Alma will never find the love she desires. Nor will Quincy - unless he’s courageous enough to open up his heart one last time.
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Jodie's Absent Groom
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After her father passes away, Jodie Wines is lonely and overworked. Her stepmother, a vain and lazy woman, leaves Jodie to do everything. Jodie’s one consolation is that she still lives in her father’s house, her childhood home in Boston, in the town she loves. But when she discovers her stepmother’s plot to marry her off to an odious merchant, Jodie flees west to become a mail order bride. Ainsley Milligan is rich. Living on the ranch he loves is fulfilling but isolating. After having his heart broken by a cheating, money-hungry woman, Ainsley fears trusting any woman. When his friend advises him to send for a mail order bride, he finally agrees. But he can’t take the chance of being conned again. He’ll have Jodie Wines prove her love to him, and only then will he tell her the truth of his wealth. But things quickly get out of control, and Ainsley’s plan of secrets and mystery is now backfiring. The woman he’s come to love is leaving him, and it’s all his fault.
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Rescuing the Bride
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Lina Sterling loves her family enough to leave them. They’re struggling to scrape out a living on the cruel, unforgiving streets of 19th century Boston, and Lina can’t find a job. The only way she can support her family is to find a rich husband somewhere - and the East is chronically low on men. Her only choice is to head out West on a train in order to marry a man she’s never met. Hotah, a Lakota warrior, still grieves the death of his beloved wife. His mother Wichapi tells him that he needs to take another bride - especially for his baby daughter’s sake. But Hotah can’t comprehend the thought. How could anyone replace his treasured Mina? When a train robbery unexpectedly brings Lina and Hotah together, they’re confronted by feelings they didn’t expect. And despite the fact that their love seems doomed to failure, every passing day sees it growing stronger....
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The Handsome Rancher on the Train
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When Hanna Wagner overhears her widowed stepmother planning to sell her in marriage, she has no choice but to escape Boston. She writes to a rancher in Rough Creek, Missouri, as a mail-order bride, and believes she has found both her escape and her ideal husband in Trent Flannigan. Billy Morgan receives a letter from his mother begging him to return to the family ranch in Rough Creek. His father has died a mysterious death. After living for five years in Boston, Billy boards a train bound for his hometown. On the train, Billy and Hanna meet each other and grow close. But Hanna is honor-bound to marry Trent Flannigan. The train is robbed, and Billy is shot and wounded while saving Hanna’s life. Torn between two men, Hanna must face her life in Missouri with newfound courage. In walking away from Billy - the man she could love forever - she faces the greatest challenge in her young life. As Hanna walks toward marriage with another man, Billy must fight for the woman he loves and for the land that is in his blood.
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The Reticent Bride: Mail Order Brides of Colorado
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When successful gold-hunter Charles Lawson decides to settle down in Shallow Gorge, Colorado, he ends up getting more than he bargained for. He never expected his new neighbor to take such an interest in his happiness. And he certainly never expected to be talked into writing an advert for a mail order bride. But when the answer to the advert comes, she is also far more than Charles bargained for. Kate O’Donnell, a young Irish immigrant, has a gorgeous face and a spitfire personality. She travels to Colorado with expectations - and Charles isn’t at all sure that he or Shallow Gorge, can measure up. Even as the two are pulled apart by misunderstandings and potential disasters, they’re drawn together by their mutual attraction. As Kate tries to decide between staying in Shallow Gorge or going back home, Charles does his best to measure up - and finds himself falling in love in the process.
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Juliet Saves the Groom
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Doc Tyler Morgan can’t heal himself. He was madly in love with his fiancée, but she died from a mysterious illness, and he couldn’t save her. He couldn’t save his parents, either, when they were injured in the crossfire during a bank robbery. Now he is alone, except for his sister Allie, who is about to marry and move to Montana. Juliet Monroe works in a dead-end, hateful factory job in Boston. She knows midwifery and herbal healing, but she was lured to the factory job with false promises of good money and golden opportunities. Allie doesn’t want to leave her brother alone in Colorado, so she secretly places an advert to get him a mail order bride. Juliet answers the ad only to discover Tyler is completely in the dark about their impending marriage. Juliet fears she’s just traded one unbearable situation for something even worse....
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The French Bride of Arkansas
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Keith Hamilton, the son of a wealthy tobacco plantation owner, is ordered to marry a thoroughly disagreeable woman in Rutger’s Creek - or his sister will not be allowed to marry her sweetheart. Something must be done. His best alternative is to get a Mail Order Bride. Anyone is better than Beatrice Charlston. Anyone. Colette Boisselot is newly arrived to America from France. After her fiancé deserts her, she’s impoverished, destitute, and out of options. She signs up to become a Mail Order Bride. After all, she’s convinced real love no longer exists - so what does it matter if she doesn’t even know the man? Will Keith and Colette fall in love and have their happily-ever-after? Or will Keith’s family send Colette back to France, in favor of the girl they’ve already chosen for him?
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The Soiled Dove
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Although it’s been nearly 15 years, Zach Walker is still haunted by the death of his beloved first wife. He and his daughter, Rebecca, have carved out a respectable life for themselves in the wind-battered prairie town of Planter’s Point, Nebraska, where Zach has taken over his father’s saloon. Since the only other saloon in town shut down a year ago, Zach’s business has been thriving, but still, he’s lonely. Imogene Cromwell has everything - rich parents, a devoted fiancé, and a vibrant social life in Boston. But that was before a series of nasty rumors surfaced. Humiliated and accused of being a wanton woman, Imogene is left at the altar and abandoned by some of her closest friends. With her reputation shattered, Imogene might never recover. But then she sees an advert for a Mail Order Bride from a Granville Ulrich in Planter’s Point... But things don’t go the way she expects. Granville, the richest and meanest man in the county, has taken over management of a vacant saloon in town. And he’s got more on his mind than destroying Zach’s business. There are secrets being concealed in those shadowy, sawdust-covered rooms, and the trafficking ring he’s running will threaten not only what’s left of Imogene’s reputation, but her chance for future happiness. If only Zach can discover what’s really happening and rescue her.
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The Bride & the Deaf Girl
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Can a grieving ranch owner find new love with a bride from New York? When Elan Beauregard’s best friend brings him a mail order bride to be his fiancée, Elan is outraged. Yet, he cannot very well send the woman away, so she temporarily settles into his household. Elan is surprised when his eight-year-old foster daughter, Kate, bonds with the lovely stranger quickly. Mail order bride Juliana Wills is mortified to discover she is supposed to marry a hard-bitten man who clearly does not like her. She is drawn to his little girl, however, and easily communicates with Kate who is deaf. But after a difficult two weeks, Juliana packs her things and leaves. Kate is distraught, and Elan goes to bring Juliana back, realizing that perhaps he was hasty in his judgement. In truth, he’s growing fond of Juliana. One of Elan’s maids is secretly in love with her boss and does her best to get rid of Juliana. When Kate suddenly goes missing, the maid accuses Juliana of foul play. Where is Kate? How can Elan find a little girl lost in the wilderness? Is Juliana the supreme manipulator, or did the maid harm Kate out of vindictiveness?
©2019 Susannah Calloway (P)2019 Tica House Publishing LLC
A New Christmas Groom
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There aren’t many options for a young woman in Philadelphia during the late 1800s — especially if she’s running away from an abusive family. Eighteen-year-old Aimee Mitcham flees the city for Rough Creek, Minnesota, to meet the man she has agreed to marry. As she waits at the train station to meet her new husband, tragedy strikes. Now left alone and surrounded by strangers, Aimee is grateful to be taken in by handsome rancher Gregory Keegan and his spirited mother Sheila. Aimee is quickly drawn to her benefactor, but because of his past, Gregory is reluctant to open his heart. So Aimee settles into life on the ranch, befriending Sheila, helping out the neighbors, and preparing for what she hopes will be the happiest Christmas she’s had in a very long time. It’s not until she’s caught between her attraction to Gregory and the attentions of ranch hand Mark Olsen that she realizes this will also be the most revealing Christmas of her life....
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A Bride for a Debt
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Serena Bailey is sold by her stepfather to a man in Texas to pay off a debt. Hating him for it, Serena is nevertheless forced to go to El Paso, Texas. Leaving her mother behind, she boards a train from New York, leaving her old life behind. Arriving in El Paso, she discovers that Hubert Bishop, her fiancé, is evil and cruel, and she is forced to fight him or die. Nartan is the Apache chief’s son, looking to marry. None of the village maidens attract him, but when he finds a young woman with hair of fire hiding in the bushes, Nartan knows his fate and takes Serena back to his village. Safe with the Apache, Serena lives among them and learns their ways and their language. Hubert Bishop refuses to let Serena escape. He schemes to steal her out of the Apache village. When Serena risks her life to save a young Apache boy, she is adopted into the tribe, and she and Nartan plan to marry. But Hubert arrives to destroy her chance at happiness. Can Serena free herself? Will Nartan lose the only woman he ever loved? What exactly will it take to survive Hubert’s cunning evil?
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The Irish Orphan Bride
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Having no family, Jade MacKenna answers a mail order bride advert and travels across the ocean from Ireland to America to meet her intended. Taking the Express Rail to Rough Creek, Missouri, with her future husband, Mike Summerfield, they get caught in a holdup led by the notorious bandit, Hank Bentley. Things turn tragic, and Jade finds herself left alone in a strange land, with her fiancé dying in her arms. US Marshal Hugo Rhode has been tracking the Bentley gang for months. When his friend Mike is caught in the crossfire, Hugo is charged with caring for Jade. He takes her home to his parents in Rough Creek, and they find that the troubles they’ve been through have drawn them together in ways neither could have imagined. But Hugo has been burned by love before - and long ago swore to never let himself be hurt like that again. With the Bentley gang out for blood, Hugo and Jade struggle with their feelings for each other, fighting to stay alive and to stay safe and, despite it all, to stay together.
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Fighting for His Bride
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Francis Jones, known as Jonesy, never intends to get married. He is too busy building his future - his small and budding ranch in the foothills of Colorado. But when he is shot by outlaws, the local doctor reminds him of his loneliness and urges him to find a mail-order bride. Jocelyn Baxter, a native of New York, promises her dying aunt she will find a husband in the West. She’ll build a future as a mail-order bride by marrying a man in needs of a wife. But when Jonesy and Jocelyn meet in correspondence, they have no idea what their first meeting in Shallow Gorge, Colorado, will bring. Before she even meets Jonesy, Jocelyn is accosted by Marvin Lewiston, who wants her for himself. Determined, Marvin vows to kill Jonesy to get him out of the way. Can Jonesy survive the attacks on his ranch and his person by Marvin? What will Marvin do in his desperate need to have Jocelyn as his own? How can Jocelyn survive the untamed west? Caught between two men, she must learn to survive.
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The Scarred Groom of Nebraska
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Home again at Planter’s Point, Marcus Tait is a wounded man. He’s long since recovered from the horrific mine accident, but his recovery from the woman who deserted him is far from over. Buried in his work on his cousin’s ranch, he fears he’s destined to become a lonely, bitter old man, one who will never love again. Six months a widow, Jessica Archer finds every day a struggle. It isn’t just the loneliness and grief - it’s trying to raise her five-year-old son in her husband’s childhood home, with her cold, overbearing in-laws blaming her for Seth’s death. When she discovers they plan to have her declared an unfit mother and take her son away, she flees. At her sister’s ranch in Planter’s Point, Nebraska, Jessica is more at peace than she has been in a long time. Surrounded by family, she starts to piece her life back together and begins to wonder whether she might even find true happiness again - with Marcus. But both of them carry secrets that threaten to keep them from finding love. If you enjoyed the best-selling book The Doctor’s Widow, you’ll love this new romance!
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The Widow's Escape
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Rancher Roby Bradford isn’t looking for a wife, but he changes his mind when he receives letters from a charming widow in Boston. Valerie Hartmann must escape the trap her powerful brother-in-law, Edward Hartmann, has set for her - marry him or lose her five-year-old son, Joshua. Her only hope is to flee with Joshua and marry Roby in Planters Point, Nebraska. Edward discovers where Valerie has fled. He boards a train west, and upon arrival, begins hunting her down. While Roby is out rounding up loose cattle one day, Valerie and Joshua are taken at gunpoint. Edward plans to dispose of Valerie and abduct Joshua. Roby finds out and gives chase, but time is against him. Can he save the woman and the son he’s come to love?
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His Daughter's Journal: Mail Order Brides of Texas
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Harper Reid comes from high society. Everything about her screams money: Her clothes, her jewels, the way she speaks, the way she moves. This has been her life ever since her father died - leaving her and her mother enough money to sustain a small village. When Harper’s mother dies suddenly, Harper discovers her life was a lie. She is buried in debt she doesn’t understand and didn’t know she had. She goes for the only solution available: She will become a mail order bride and secure a wealthy husband. Logan Jennings wants a new love for himself and a new mother for his daughter. A doctor who leads a simple life, Logan is a man who had his heart broken by the death of his wife six years earlier. He signs up for a mail order bride, stressing the fact that he’s a widower with a daughter. Harper arrives in Texas not having been informed of Logan’s daughter. Expecting a rich doctor’s salary and home, Harper is stunned to find a humble home complete with Logan’s daughter and his mother-in-law. Can they possibly reconcile their differences and find love, or will they get lost in the chaos of their new life together?
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Her Pa's Christmas Bride
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Christmas happens everywhere – except in Daniel Whitmore’s house. After losing his wife during the holidays five years before, Daniel has forbidden his children to celebrate any of the traditions they once loved. It seems things will stay like that forever – until his teenage daughter Melina comes up with a plan. Abigail Keating, of Boston, misses the family she used to have. Now, with both parents passed away, all she has left is her angry, abusive uncle. When he threatens to marry her off to a gambling hall owner to whom he owes a debt, the time has come to run away and strike out on her own. An advert for a Mail Order Bride in Rough Creek, Missouri, seems to be the perfect opportunity to start anew – until she arrives and finds out Melina wrote the letter on her father’s behalf. With Christmas right around the corner, Abigail and Daniel start to piece together a friendship, complicated by painful pasts and grief over loved ones they have lost. Will love prevail this Christmas season?
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The Substitute Groom: Mail Order Brides of Nebraska
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Ashton Milford’s twin brother, Noel, is gunned down by outlaw Hank Riley. Noel’s dying wish is for Ashton to marry his intended bride, a woman Ashton knows nothing about. Later, Ashton regrets promising to marry this mystery woman in Noel’s stead and hopes she stays away from the family ranch. Delia Wayne and her young son, Josh, have lost everything. Only the hope of marriage to a rancher named Noel in Nebraska offers them any sort of future. She and Josh arrive in Planter’s Point, and Delia thinks she will soon wed the man she fell in love with through letters. To his dismay, Ashton discovers Delia, Noel’s fiancée, has arrived. His parents, Maggie and Fred, welcome her as part of the family, but Ashton resents her presence. His guilt at not informing anyone of his promise to marry Delia rises, and he wants her to return to Boston. What happens next is an adventure of love and danger; both Delia and Ashton must fight for their lives when outlaw Hank Riley returns to Planters Point.
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The Reformed Outlaw
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Wanted: Rancher in Planter’s Point, Nebraska, looks for adventurous girl willing to be his wife. Violet Swanson responds to the advert in the paper with haste. Fleeing an abusive father and an arranged marriage, she travels to Planter’s Point to answer the call from handsome cattle rancher, Kyle Stuart. Kyle runs an expansive, prosperous ranch, where he lives with his sweet mother, Grace. Together, they’ve gone through good times and bad. Now, as Grace’s health falters, she begs Kyle to find a wife, so he won’t be alone. Violet adjusts rapidly to frontier life - but when villainous gang leader Roger Bonnet comes back from Kyle’s past, she discovers all is not as it seems. Violet’s courage and adventurous spirit are put to the test as she struggles to understand Kyle’s mysterious past - and to find her own happily-ever-after.
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