Terra Incognita (Unknown Land): Four Historical Romance Novellas - E-book - ePub

Dancing Into His Heart - A prima ballerina in London finds that her lover and costar is cheating on her and decides to throw it all in and apply to be a mail order bride in America. She meets a lower class woman in the mail order bride office and they form a fast and permanent bond as they both start a new life in the west. Lonely Crippled Thomas & His Surprise Mail Order Bride - Thomas lives virtually alone in his house in Pennsylvania with only his cousin to look after him.
His legs were damaged in a railway accident and the only way he can get around his house is by crawling, or by means of an awkward chaise lounge and prototype wheelchair that his cousin pushes. He loses his faith and reads only controversial books, and his neighbors begin to despise him. Lottie & Emmett's Story - An overweight mail order bride with three dead husbands as a record of accomplishment, goes out to meet a cowboy in California, at the Yuma Arizona train station, as that's the closest to his mountain cabin in California.
On the long trek via horseback to California, she learns whether or not she is truly jinxed. Emma Travels To Her Arizona Rancher, Malory, By Oxcart -- A woman from an upper class English family decides to become a mail order bride to an Arizona rancher, but is shocked when she realizes the potentially harsh life ahead on the days-long journey to his remote ranch by oxcart; and it's a lonely one - accompanied by his silent Native American ranch hand.