title: Mail-Order Christmas Brides: An Anthology (Love Inspired Historical)
author:  Jillian Hart 
description: Jillian Hart grew up on the original homestead where her family still lives, went to high school where <em>Twin Peaks</em> was filmed, earned an English degree, and has travelled extensively. When Jillians not writing her stories, she reads, stops for caf mochas, and hikes through the pine forests near her home in Washington State.
zlib_text: > > A BRIDE FOR CHRISTMAS
  
  > > HANDS AND HEARTS MAIL ORDER BRIDE AGENCY
  
  > > INDIANA WAKE
  
  > > BELLE FIFFER
  
  > > FAIR HAVENS BOOKS
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Introduction_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Epilogue_
  
  >  _Preview 31 Sweet Christmas Brides_
  
  >  _Also by Indiana Wake_
  
  >  _About the Author_
  
  > > INTRODUCTION
  
   **A Bride for Christmas**
  
   **Hearts and Hands Mail Order Bride Agency**
  
  The tradition of mail order bride’s dates back to 1620 but most of us are more
  familiar with the 1800s.
  
  The first mail order bride adverts appeared following the gold rush. Men went
  West and became prosperous but without the possibility of family they soon
  became morose. They drank too much and so the first matrimonial adverts began.
  
  At first men write to their churches, in the hope of finding moral ladies who
  would take on such an adventure and travel West to become their wives.
  
  Often the men would off