Colleen Weaver has narrated 10 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is The Doctor's Widow.
Johnathan's Girl
Summary
Leora King’s life boils down to two things: running her parents’ farmhouse and trying to keep her cranky father happy. Both require all of her energy. She’s all but given up on finding true love; she’s all but given up on a home of her own. Johnathan comes to Green Valley for the express purpose of finding a wife and settling down. His first choice is Mae Gross. She is a pretty, nice, friendly girl, who just happens to be Leora’s best friend. When Leora’s buggy slides off the road in a harrowing ice storm, Johnathan finds her, and together, they make their way to an abandoned farmhouse where they stay the night, weathering out the storm. Leora falls hard for Johnathan, and when she discovers that he’s courting her best friend, she’s devastated. But didn’t she sense affection in Johnathan’s gaze? Didn’t she feel that he might be falling for her, too? But what does it matter? Mae is her best friend, and Leora can’t even entertain the idea of betraying her.
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Helping Sarah
Summary
Martha Yoder moves to Hollybrook to help her sister Sarah with her three young sons. Sarah is alone now since her husband’s efforts at farming failed, and he went north to work at the factories. At Sarah’s home, Martha’s days are filled with housework, helping to care for her nephews and tending the animals. She even goes so far as to take a job in town. Alan Lapp tries to manage the family farm, his father’s worsening health, and his older brother’s absurd demands. His shunned brother Will is relentless in his pursuit of the family land, and Alan must find a way to stop him. Alan finds comfort and solace in his budding friendship with Martha. When Martha is forced to leave town, he is bereft. Is the only good thing that’s happened to him in a long while now leaving his life? And how can he possibly turn things around and ensure Martha stays in Hollybrook?
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The Soiled Dove
Summary
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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Forgotten Love
Summary
Linda Hostetler is engaged to marry handsome Levi Resch, and they are planning a long and happy life together. Then, Linda suffers a tragic bicycle accident. When she wakes up, she can’t remember anything. Not Levi, not her family, nor anything about her past. Englischer Clay Dawson finds Linda at the scene of the accident, and she clings to him as the only familiar person in her life. She continues to be drawn to him, not only because of his good looks and intelligence, but because he feels safe and familiar, unlike anyone else in her world. Levi is devastated with this turn of events and tries everything to help Linda get her memory back. Yet, it looks as if it isn’t going to happen. Besides, Linda’s affections seem to be turning in a different direction.
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The Irish Orphan Bride
Summary
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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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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Melanie's Christmas Plan
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Melanie Zook’s newlywed sister has moved to Pennsylvania but is desperately unhappy. Melanie yearns to be with her at Christmas time to help her settle into her new life. But money is short, and bus tickets don’t come cheap. Melanie decides to host Christmas parties for the Englisch in their family’s big barn. It would offer the perfect location for a unique party. She enlists the help of her best friend and neighbor Amy Warner. Amy recruits her brother Noah to help them as well. Melanie balks at this idea but remains silent. She has been secretly in love with Noah for years. He doesn’t think of her in that way, so every moment she spends with him is painful. Melanie knows that any hope of being with Noah is a lost cause, so why won’t her stubborn heart admit the truth of it and move on?
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Christmas in Shallow Gorge
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Raising his three rambunctious children on a small farm in Shallow Gorge, Colorado, Billy Spence is at his wits’ end. It’s hard enough to eke out a living in such a rough area; it’s even harder caring for three little ones on his own. He’s desperate for a solution and would sure like to have one by Christmas.... After her last living relative succumbs to the Russian flu that cold December, Alice Fletcher wants to leave her nursing job in New York and settle somewhere new and fresh. But she doesn’t know where to even start. She’s desperate for an answer.... Billy’s advert for a mail-order bride by Christmas turns out to be just what both of them need - at least, that’s how it appears. But between Billy’s reluctance to let himself love again, Alice’s need for honesty, and a dastardly plot to take Billy’s farm from him by the New Year, things aren’t exactly going smoothly in Shallow Gorge. Only two things can bring these two people together when they’re as different as Billy and Alice: understanding and love.
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A Secret Fresh Start
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Eleanor Chupp has spent the last six years caring for her cancer-stricken mother. Now her mother is gone, and Eleanor is left to live alone with her father, a mean-spirited man with a heart of granite. On a bitterly cold January day, Eleanor’s father loses his temper and strikes her. Eleanor, scared for her life, runs away on her bicycle amidst a winter storm. She rides until she’s exhausted and almost frozen. At last, she finds shelter in a barn. Mennonite Moses Stuckey is shocked to find a pretty, young Amish girl hiding in the straw in his family’s barn. When he hears her story, he decides to help and lets her stay in the heated storage shed of his parents’ house. Their secret relationship grows, and Moses falls in love with her. But when she disappears, he fears he may have lost her forever. Where did Eleanor go, and why? And does she feel the same way about Moses? Will the new year give Eleanor the fresh start she so desperately needs?
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The Doctor's Widow
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Reese Tait is a single rancher with two small children and a run-down ranch to care for, and he’s running out of time. Aileen Warrick is a young widow with debts to pay and nowhere to turn. She’s also running out of time. Valerie Tait is the frustrated, lovelorn bride who brings them together. When Valerie posts a mail order bride advertisement on her cousin Reese’s behalf, he’s anything but pleased. The last thing he wants is for some strange woman to come into his life and turn everything upside down. But Val’s about to be married and knows he needs someone - someone to care for his twin babies and someone to take care of Reese himself! Beautiful young widow Aileen answers the advert and finds far more than she bargained for at Three Cedars Ranch. A broken-down ranch with a broken-down owner, misunderstandings galore, and true love - none of which is quite what she was expecting.
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