Nebraska Legacy: Mail Order Husband/Temporary Husband/Kiowa Husband/Renegade Husband (Heartsong Novella Collection) [Paperback]

DiAnn Mills (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2006

If you enjoy historical fiction Fans, you'll love this collection of four stories involving American settlers who become husbands in the most unusual of circumstances. Gabe Hunters leaves Philadelphia and his book studies to answer an ad for a husband and father on a Nebraska farm. Riley O'Conner's marriage proposal is a woman's ticket out of jail and into battle perspectives. The scout Painted Hands marries a young woman-for propriety's sake-on the Oregon Trail. Caleb Windsor attempts to waylay his twin's outlaw lifestyle by arranging a marriage for his brother. Will these restless men be able to find peace within marriage?

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About the Author

Award-winning author, DIANN MILLS, launched her career in 1998 with the publication of her first book. Currently she has sixteen novels, fourteen novellas, a non fiction book, several articles, and short stories in print. DiAnn believes her readers should

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc; Later Edition edition (February 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597891061
• ISBN-13: 978-1597891066
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Award-winning author DiAnn Mills is a fiction writer who combines an adventuresome spirit with unforgettable characters to create action-packed novels. DiAnn's first book was published in 1998. She currently has more than fifty books in print, which have sold more than a million and a half copies.

Her titles have appeared on the CBA and ECPA bestseller lists and have won placements through the American Christian Fiction Writer's Book of the Year Awards from 2003 to 2008. DiAnn was also a Carol Award finalist in 2010 & 2011. She received the Inspirational Reader's Choice award in 2005, 2007, and 2010, and was a Christy Award finalist in 2008 and a RITA Award finalist in 2010. In 2010, DiAnn won the Christy Award for Breach of Trust and in 2011 she won the Christy Award for Sworn to Protect, the first and second books in her Call of Duty series.

DiAnn is a founding board member for American Christian Fiction Writers and a member of Inspirational Writers Alive; Romance Writers of America's Faith, Hope and Love chapter; and the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. She speaks to various groups and teaches writing workshops around the country. DiAnn is also the Craftsman mentor for the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild.

She and her husband live in sunny Houston, Texas.


Awards
2011 Christy Award Winner - Sworn to Protect
2011 Carol Award Finalist - Pursuit of Justice
2011 Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence Finalist - Pursuit of Justice
2011 Golden Quill Award Finalist - A Woman Called Sage
2011 Award of Excellence Finalist - Pursuit of Justice
2010 Christy Award Winner - Breach of Trust
2010 Inspirational Reader's Choice Winner - Breach of Trust
2010 RITA Finalist - Breach of Trust
2010 Carol Award Finalist - Breach of Trust
2008 Christy Award Finalist - Lightning and Lace
2005 Inspirational Reader's Choice Winner - Footsteps
2005 Inspirational Reader's Choice Winner - Novella At the End of the Bayou from Hidden Motives

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I absolutely loved this book, July 3, 2006

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C. J. Souther (Portland, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nebraska Legacy: Mail Order Husband/Temporary Husband/Kiowa Husband/Renegade Husband (Heartsong Novella Collection) (Paperback)

I was strolling through a book section, and literally picked this one up, not knowing a thing about it, and I have to tell you, I AM SO GLAD I DID. This book just captured my heart. The stories come alive as you read their amazing stories. I am definitely going to buy more of her books. What a delight!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars lovely anthology of four romantic novellas, November 26, 2007

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Stacey (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nebraska Legacy: Mail Order Husband/Temporary Husband/Kiowa Husband/Renegade Husband (Heartsong Novella Collection) (Paperback)

DiAnn Mills' "Nebraska Legacy" is a lovely anthology of four romantic novellas.

"Mail Order Husband" is the story of Lena, a widow who places an advertisement for a husband to help run her farm and raise her two sons. Gabe Hunters answers the ad and moves from Philadelphia to Nebraska. Unfortunately, Gabe was raised in the city and knows nothing about farming. He is definitely not Lena's dream come true. Lena isn't Gabe's dream girl, either. He has always been ridiculed by pretty women! Can the two of them learn to live with - and maybe even love - each other?

"Temporary Husband" is the tale of Nettie, a woman who spent her "marrying years" caring for her ill parents and has resigned herself to the fact that she will never have a husband and the children she desperately desires. She feels her calling is to passionately oppose the horrors of drink, and is thrown in jail when she becomes a nuisance to the saloon owner who also happens to be the town judge. Riley is a changed man. Once prone to drink and carouse, he has now devoted his life to the Lord and wants to thank the man who introduced them. Unfortunately, that means returning to the town where the judge has sworn to throw Riley in prison if he ever laid eyes on him, again. And that's where Nettie and Riley are reunited. A condition of their mutual release from jail is that they marry. Will what the judge intended as punishment actually be a blessing in disguise?

Painted Hand, a white man raised by the Kiowa Indians, agrees to remain behind the wagon train with Sarah, whose parents are dying of an infectious disease. Their story is told in "Kiowa Husband". For the sake of propriety, the two must wed before they are left alone to care for her dying family. Will this marriage of inconvenience blossom into something beautiful on the Oregon trail?

A case of mistaken identity and manipulation is at the heart of "Renegade Husband," which tells Caleb and Audra's story. Audra has come to town to marry the local preacher. Caleb is the preacher's twin brother, and an accused outlaw. Unfortunately, Caleb has been covering for his brother's crimes for too long. Will he be able to clear his name and win his lady love before she marries the wrong man?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good read, October 17, 2007

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This review is from: Nebraska Legacy: Mail Order Husband/Temporary Husband/Kiowa Husband/Renegade Husband (Heartsong Novella Collection) (Paperback)

I agree with another reviewer: It is sure nice to read about the man. I found all three stories fun and worthwhile.

All of the books showed a need for love, acceptance, and patience as well as compromise. It is hard to imagine being thrust into any of these circumstances. Well, Mills puts it all together very well. I found Kiowa Husband to be my favorite- it had plenty of excitment in it. I found the characers to be very likeable and the descriptions of their emotions-- well, you really felt what they did. What a great writer.