Books like Stryker's Bride by Joyce Adams

In the rugged Wyoming wilderness, a widowed, pregnant woman named Hannah Wentworth marries the reluctant rancher Flint Creed, a mail‑order bride who must navigate personal secrets amid frontier dangers.

When mail‑order bride Eliza Cantrell arrives early to aid her intended groom’s general store, her plans derail after a robbery and Axel’s absence. With the business partner William Stanton, Eliza must choose between love, ambition and a new future.

If bride-to-be Ainslie O'Connell hadn't seen the derelict pushing the shopping cart, she might have married the wrong man. Because that "derelict" who now suffered from amnesia, was Seamus Malone--the only man she'd ever truly loved. The man she'd buried two years ago! The man she thought she'd known...but really hadn't. Ainslie knew that unmasking a secret from Seamus's shadowy past as a soldier of fortune would guarantee his safety. But her greatest challenge lay in convincing Seamus he'd never be truly alive without her by his side!

Linda Lael Miller’s collection of five interwoven short stories follows ordinary people who find unexpected second chances at love, devotion, and happiness in everyday life.

A U.S. Marshal hunting justice for his first wife’s murder must decide if marriage to a steadfast schoolteacher will save her reputation and restore his own redemption.

Kurt Stryker, a rugged ship captain in need of a wife to secure custody of a boy, finds love with the sweet and daring Debranne Kiley. Their bond begins with an unexpected proposal.

In Granite, Texas, ranch heir Levi Westland faces a one-year deadline to marry or lose his family ranch. When a mail‑order bride refuses him, his plan for a convenient marriage unravels as he struggles to keep his love and the ranch intact.

Adam Miller's love affair with a Jewish woman in post-war Venice is threatened by the dark underbelly of the Occupation and the murky past of the city itself.

THE BACHELOR: Wes Stryker, notorious rogue. His carefree life suddenly changed with the arrival of two young orphans in need of a family. THE BRIDE: Jayne Kincaid, happily single. Until a blue-eyed cowboy wooed her with a sultry "Howdy, ma'am." The ex-rodeo rider's sweet talk about children that needed raisin' and his lonely heart that needed healin' almost had city gal Jayne running for the altar. But Wes needed to understand the importance of three little words and wrangle them from his charming lips before Jayne would agree to become Stryker's wife!

Three generations of English women navigate love, war, and destiny in ‘Consequences,’ tracing the lives of Lorna, her daughter Molly, and granddaughter Ruth from 1930s Britain to the post‑war era.

"Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture--and one that is more than just reactionary. Left confined to intimate spaces, consent will atrophy as theory that is never put into practice. The multi-layered power disparities of today's world require a response sensitive to a wide range of lived experiences. In Ask, Kitty Stryker assembles a retinue of writers, journalists, and activists to examine how a cultural politic centered on consent can empower us outside the bedroom, whether it's at the doctor's office, interacting with law enforcement, or calling out financial abuse within radical communities. More than a collection of essays, Ask is a testimony and guide on the role that negated consent plays in our lives, examining how we can take those first steps to reclaim it from institutionalized power"-- "A collection of essays by writers, journalists and activists exploring the role of consent in confronting power structures in day-to-day life"--