Life in Green Bay, Wisconsin seems to hold all the pieces of a fresh start until she discovers her prospective groom was a Union spy and targeted her parents during one of his investigations.

Money holds no allure for her, so rather than allow her parents to set her up with another rich bachelor she decides to become a mail-order bride. Vanessa’s Replacement Valentine by Linda Shenton Matchett - Engaged to be married as part of a plan to regain the wealth her family lost during the War Between the States, Vanessa Randolph finds her fiancé in the arms of another woman weeks before the wedding. (Historical Romance from Revell – A Division of Baker Publishing Group)

When her mother dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1920, Moira decides to fulfill her mother’s wish that she become the teacher in Ballymann, her home village in Donegal, Ireland. (Historical Romance from Wilson Creek Publishing)Ī Dance in Donegal by Jennifer Deibel - All of her life, Irish-American Moira Doherty has relished her mother’s descriptions of Ireland. But she doesn’t expect the bold cowboy who challenges her to reclaim both the loves she thought she’d lost forever. Colorado offers the change of scenery she needs. Clinging to the remnants of her independence, she cuts her hair and her ties with her wealthy father and takes a train west as the seamstress with a moving-picture company. (Historical Romance from HarperCollins Christian Publishing (Thomas Nelson and Zondervan))Ī Change of Scenery by Davalynn Spencer - A motorcar accident on a rainy Chicago night steals Ella Canaday’s fiancé as well as her ability to ride. The Paris Dressmaker by Kristy Cambron - From fashion to desperation and haute couture to the perils of humanity, The Paris Dressmaker weaves a story of two worlds colliding years apart-where satin and lace stand between life and death in the brutal underbelly of a war-torn world. More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website

Death and a Crocodile by Lisa E. Betz