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interrupted Bridal Journey Part One Maryanne had been raised by her aunt, somewhat reclusively. Without any male suitors even knowing about her, let alone showing any interest, she decides to offer herself as a mail-order bride. Thomas is a successful businessman on the other side of the country, who up to now has had no inclination to get married. He now feels the need, however, and contacts a mail-order bridal agency. Upon receiving details of Maryanne from the agency, he writes to her and makes an offer of marriage. Maryanne finds Thomas's letters dull and devoid of any spark, but at the urging of her aunt, decides to accept his offer anyway. She boards the train to travel to San Francisco to join him, on which she meets a couple who happen to know Thomas. She extracts from them, more by omission than anything else, the fact that Thomas really is rather staid. Into the mix is thrown a soldier, Peter, who arrives in Maryanne's compartment abruptly during a Shawnee ambush. They are immediately attracted to each other, and after a whirlwind romance aboard the train, with Peter showing her various things outside her experience, including taking her onto the roof of a car, which then goes through a tunnel, he proposes to her, and she accepts, all the while understanding that Peter will not be able to provide for her nearly as well as Thomas would have been able. But she thinks that love will find a way.  She and Thomas get married and set up home in Omaha, and seem blissfully happy. Maryanne falls pregnant, and she feels that things cannot get any better. However, will love really find a way? Will Peter carry on his loving ways once a baby arrives? Will Thomas take all of this lying down?"

Maryanne's Interrupted Bridal Journey Part 1 Maryanne had been raised by her aunt, somewhat reclusively. Without any male suitors even knowing about her, let alone showing any interest, she decides to offer herself as a mail-order bride. Thomas is a successful businessman on the other side of the country, who up to now has had no inclination to get married. He now feels the need, however, and contacts a mail-order bridal agency. Upon receiving details of Maryanne from the agency, he writes to her and makes an offer of marriage. Maryanne finds Thomas's letters dull and devoid of any spark, but at the urging of her aunt, decides to accept his offer anyway. She boards the train to travel to San Francisco to join him, on which she meets a couple who happen to know Thomas. She extracts from them, more by omission than anything else, the fact that Thomas really is rather staid. Into the mix is thrown a soldier, Peter, who arrives in Maryanne's compartment abruptly during a Shawnee ambush. They are immediately attracted to each other, and after a whirlwind romance aboard the train, with Peter showing her various things outside her experience, including taking her onto the roof of a car, which then goes through a tunnel, he proposes to her, and she accepts, all the while understanding that Peter will not be able to provide for her nearly as well as Thomas would have been able. But she thinks that love will find a way.  She and Thomas get married and set up home in Omaha, and seem blissfully happy. Maryanne falls pregnant, and she feels that things cannot get any better.   Maryanne Resumes Her Journey Part 2 However, will love really find a way? Will Peter carry on his loving ways once a baby arrives? Will Thomas take all of this lying down?" After Peter sweeps Maryanne off her feet, she scraps her plans to meet Thomas, her arranged husband, in San Francisco, marries Peter instead, and sets up home in Omaha. The marriage is idyllic, and when she falls pregnant after a while, she feels her happiness is complete. After being initially indifferent to Albert's arrival, Peter warms to him, and Maryanne assumes that life couldn't get better. However, fate has a few lessons in store for her. When two tragedies strike, in relatively quick succession, Maryanne has cause to re-evaluate her life completely, and finally wonder whether she should resume her interrupted journey to San Francisco. Will Thomas take her back? Does she deserve happiness after disappointing him so much? As her aunt points out to her when they meet again - you cannot make your children's mistakes for them, you have to let them make them themselves.  

Kari and John are in the midst of planning a second public wedding so that their families and friends can join their happiness, when things take a turn for the worse and John's mother, Evangeline, falls gravely ill. She has always been a stubborn, sturdy woman, capable of anything, but her sudden sickness seems to be more than even she can handle. All Evangeline ever wanted was to witness her son's marriage, and now it seems as if this might not be possible. John and Kari realize that the only way Evangeline will die happy is if she is able to see the wedding. They try to postpone it, but she urges them to carry on with their matrimonial plans, telling them she does not believe she will be able to make it. Stressed and worried, John and Kari work day and night to find a way for John's mother to witness their marriage, while Evangeline grows more ill. Meanwhile, Kari experiences some troubles with her pregnancy, and begins to worry about whether or not John will be able to love another man's child. Kari also begins to fear that having Mark's baby will only make her miss him so much that she will not be able to give John the love and joy that he deserves. Will everything work itself out into a happily ever after? Or are these two love birds doomed to a life of hardship and unhappiness?

Chloe joins an African Safari, to help her get over a recent abusive relationship. She has NO interest in any new romance. She largely ignores the other members of the group. Mark is on the same safari, also healing from a relationship that turned sour. While no stranger to the African bush, and having led a few similar tours of his own, he has decided to come on this tour as a customer, to leave someone else to do the organising. On the third day of the holiday they are in a game-viewing vehicle, which is high off the ground, but open to the air. They stop to look at a pride of lions close to the road. One of the male lions rushes at the vehicle and starts climbing up the side, right where Chloe is sitting. She freezes in terror. The driver grabs for his rifle and starts to bring it round to bear on the lion. At the same time, Mark, who is sitting on the same seat as her on the other side, jumps over her and shouts loudly at the lion. The lion checks himself, and then drops back down from the vehicle. Chloe is white as a sheet. Mark asks her if she's OK, and apologizes for jumping over her. She stammers out her thanks for what he did. After dinner that evening she decides that she should thank him properly, and so goes into the lounge to where he is sitting reading a book. He asks her to sit down and have her coffee with him.  Will he rescue her from more than just a lion ? Will she heal his bruised heart?

Fatal Attraction to Love: Without A Hitch Book Two: Falling in love has never been so sweet! John and Kari fall madly in love, faster than either of them ever dreamed could be possible. A romantic courtship leads John to Kari's bedside at the hospital when pregnancy complications arise resulting in a bedside wedding. Their untraditional marriage sparks some concern with John's family. His conservative mother convinces them to marry in a public ceremony so that friends and family can witness it. Kari and John agree and work day and night, to make their wedding an event that reflects the love they have for each other.  But John's past comes knocking, and things get ugly, quickly. An ex-flame proves obsessive and abusive claiming that John is a liar and a cheater who is actually betrothed to her. John insists none of this is true. He tells Kari that his ex-lover is obsessed with him, and that she is lying. He promises that he never loved this woman, much less promised himself to her. The obsessive ex-lover not only threatens to drive Kari and John apart -- she threatens to end their lives, and after a dreadful display, the couple is wracked with fear. It seems that nothing can be done to keep the ex-lover away, and she continues to threaten Kari and John's lives. Will Kari and John be able to pull through the danger, and come out of the storm with their love still intact? Or will this be the end of a short love story, destined for disaster? 

Some say that love must blossom and grow; it cannot simply appear in a moment and last forever. But is this really true?  There are countless anecdotes that compete with this notion. This is one such story... John is a tennis coach with few rambunctious students, a dog, and parents who want more from him and aren't afraid to tell him so. Everyone tries to match him up, but he can't see the point. His dates never seem to click on an emotional level. That is until he meets Kari in an unexpected way. Kari Goodbar is a baker who has no remaining family after her husband has died, except for the child she is carrying. Is there any room for romance in such a life? She doesn't think that she can date at this point in her life, or that anyone would want to be with her. But she's wrong. John and Kari's meeting is unexpected, and not exactly ideal. They fall in love in an instant, but their relationship falls apart just as quickly. Their stubbornness separates them, but true love can't be foiled by something so basic. They are both face the reality that the lives they had been living were incomplete. They do not want to go back to how things were before; they want to spend their lives together.  When they finally get their act together… Will it be too late?

Imagine yourself thinking that you will have to give into the parental pressure of getting married, and then stumbling into your one true love. Without a Hitch features two characters destined to be together despite all of the odds working against them. Faced with an unstable pregnancy, doubts about their fast moving relationship, a dying parent, and a crazy ex-lover, this box set leaves the reader with questions of doubt and loyalty that comes with most relationships. Readers will want the couple in Without a Hitch to defy everything that keeps them apart because they will want to believe that love can be as spontaneous as Kari and John's. Can we believe John when he says that he is not betrothed to another woman? Can we be sure that he can love another man's child? Can Kari love a man after losing her husband months before? If you are looking for a love at first sight story, buy this box set to find the answers to the questions that may or may not drive these lovers apart.