Showing results for "Alice" in Westerns

Ever since her father became too ill to work, Alice Abrams knows he can’t support her anymore on his army pension. So, Alice decides to sign up for Mrs. Emily Bronwick’s mail order bride service. As well as starting a new life for herself, she wants to ensure her father’s financial security. She is delighted when the service matches her with Mr. Arthur Emerson of Bend, Oregon. But her closest friend, childhood playmate, and confidante Jesse McDowell objects bitterly to the plan.

When Alice Trembath is mugged in the stark Australian outback, she has two choices: return to the US with an "I told you so" from her conservative parents and join the family business, or take a job as a nanny on a nearby cattle station. Despite being wildly unqualified, she accepts the position. She’s a fast learner and besides, she needs the money.

Alice Dayton is doing everything in her power to save her daddy's ranch, including working in a saloon - a job which she hates. Sheriff Silverwood Clay is new in town and has a lot to prove. With his heart and career in tatters after the death of his young wife, Silverwood is determined to put his old life behind him. When her daddy loses the ranch in a poker game, Alice has a choice to make. Leave her home or marry the man who won the ranch. Silverwood knows he's a criminal, but the only way to catch him is to let him marry Alice.

When Jess heads west for a fresh start in a small mining town, she soon learns that the dusty outback plains are a far cry from her former life in the city - but she finds herself loving the isolation and local people she lives with. All she has to do is keep her head down and work hard to create a better life for herself and Johnno, the only person she has ever truly cared about.