Bøker av Linda Shenton Matchett

Will a world at war destroy a second chance at love?Estelle Johnson promises to wait for Aubry DeLuca to return from war, but then she receives word of his debilitating injuries. Does she have the strength to stand by him during his hour of need?Aubry DeLuca storms the beaches of Normandy, then wakes up in a hospital, his eyes heavily bandaged. Will the only woman he's ever loved welcome him home or is he destined to go through life blind and alone?

She's given up hope. He never had any. Will they find it together?World War II is finally over, and America is extra grateful as the country approaches this year's Thanksgiving. But for Francine life hasn't changed. Despite working at Fort Meade processing the paperwork for the thousands of men who have returned home, she's still lonely and very single. Is she destined for spinsterhood?Grateful that his parents anglicized the family surname after emigrating to the United States after the Great War, first-generation German-American Ray Fisher has done all he can to hide his heritage. He managed to make it through this second "war to end all wars," but what American woman would want to marry into a German family? Must he leave the country to find wedded bliss?

She's running for her life. He needs a trophy wife. They didn't count on falling in love.Ellie Wagner is fine being a spinster school teacher. Then she witnesses a bank hold up and can identify the bandits. Fellow robbery victim Milly Crenshaw happens to run the Westward Home & Hearts Matrimonial Agency so she arranges for Ellie to head West as a mail-order bride. But her groom only wants a business arrangement. Can she survive a loveless marriage?Banker Julian Sheffield is more comfortable with numbers than with people, but he's done well for himself. Then the bank president tells him that in order to advance further he must marry in six weeks' time. The candid, unsophisticated woman sent by the agency is nothing like he expected, but time is running out. When her past comes calling, does he have what it takes to ensure their future?

Will a stolen inheritance and false accusations thwart the chance for happily-ever-after?After the death of her father, Daria Burke is thrust into the role of a servant by her stepmother. Locked in her room one night, Daria watches as the woman and her daughters sashay from the house wearing her mother''s gowns and jewelry. Realizing she''ll never be accepted as family, she flees the house and applies to be a mail-order bride. Then the sheriff arrives on the eve of her wedding with an arrest warrant. Can she prove her innocence or will she go to jail and lose her one chance at happiness?Ewan McKay''s father was stripped of his title, property, and wealth, and sent to prison for crimes he didn''t commit. The stain of his father''s incarceration prevents Ewan from finding a woman willing to be his wife, so he uses a matrimonial agency to secure a mail-order bride. But when she''s accused of stealing, he wonders if he is destined to go through life alone.

Will she have to lose her identity to find true love? Twin sisters Rayne and Jessica Dalton have been swapping places their whole lives, so when Jessica dies on the eve of heading west to become a mail-order bride, Rayne decides to fill her sister''s shoes. The challenge will be faking Jessica''s faith in God. Can Rayne fool her prospective groom without losing her heart...or her soul? Flynn Ward fled England to escape his parent''s attempts at marrying him off, but locating a woman to love in the Wyoming mountains is harder than finding a hackney in a rainstorm. Then the Westward Home & Hearts Agency offers him the perfect match. But when his prospective bride arrives, she''s nothing like she seemed in her letters. Is he destined to go through life alone?Can two desperate people overcome their differences to find common ground...and love?An exciting addition to the "Westward Home & Hearts Mail-Order Bride" series, this story is a Christian western romance. Easily read as a stand-alone.

Can she put the past behind her and settle down to married life with the kindhearted man who loves her? Formerly part of the Let Love Spring collection

Midwife Pia Hertz and her mother Sabine have been delivering babies long before the Nazis came to power. Now, the Third Reich has implemented mandates that require Jewish babies and other “undesirables” to be killed as part of The Final Solution. Is Pia’s new faith in Christ strong enough to defy the laws of man?Despite the agony of the injury at the Battle of Drøbak Sound that took his arm, Dieter Fertig is relieved he’s no longer part of Hitler’s army. He returns to Berlin and discovers Jews are being deported by the thousands. When he realizes the Nuremburg Laws require his best friend’s baby girl to be killed, he must find a way to spirit the child out of Germany before the Nazis discover her existence. Inspired by the biblical story of Shiprah and Puah, the midwives who saved Jewish babies during Pharaoh’s reign, Love’s Belief shows how one person’s actions can change the world.