About the Author
Marisa Masterson and her husband of thirty-seven years reside in Saginaw, Michigan. They have two grown children and a granddaughter who is very much a part of daily life!
Marisa is a retired high school English teacher and oversaw a high school writing center in partnership with the local university. In addition, she is a National Writing Project fellow and a regular contributor to the Sweet Americana Sweethearts and Sweethearts of the West blogs.
Focusing on her home state of Wisconsin, she writes sweet historical and contemporary Christian romance. Growing up, she loved hearing stories about her family pioneering in that state. Those stories, in part, are what inspired her to begin writing.
The Postons
A lonely rancher's letter sets off this saga that spans the country.
Having lost two grooms, mail-order bride Caroline refuses to lose sight of her new husband. She determines to keep him safe from the unknown danger that lurks on the Shawnee Trail. But, as they face the hardships of the trail, Caroline realizes another real threat follows her.
Will they find a love strong enough to survive the treacherous journey and bring them together, or will danger ultimately tear them apart?
Unwilling to risk their baby, Jack Poston and his wife remain in the North after driving cattle up the Shawnee Trail. When a miracle inheritance lands in his lap, Jack jumps at it, not realizing shady dealings and a crooked judge are involved.
Book two in the Poston series.
Book three in the Postons, releasing fall 2026.
Jack and Phillip Poston, the reunited brothers, head to Texas, along with Sybil Kiesler. She will be their trail cook as they drive a herd of horses north. When Jack is called home to be at Caroline's bedside, the other two agree to continue on.
The situation confuses Sybil. The animals will travel by train and not on the trail. Why is she along on this trip with her two nursing babies? Worse, why are there no horses at the ranch when she and Phillip arrive?
The Confederate Gold Widows
A midnight raid on a Union Camp! Men shoved gold into their saddlebags and disappeared.
While most of the gold was found, some will haunt three women who only want to start new lives and leave the nightmare of their husbands behind.
A home. That's all she wants.
Marietta has a second chance at love with a new husband and a needy baby. Too bad her dead husband's misdeeds come back to haunt her.
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Willa was only the nanny. How did she end up on the Oregon Trail with her young charges?
When she is forced to pick a husband on the trail, she asks the scout to marry her. Only she wants to be free at the end of the journey. That is, until danger comes after her...
Suellen made a lousy choice when she married her bank-robbing husband. How can she trust her heart and head when both say she has met someone she can love?
Will a trip to return gold turn into love? Only if two frozen hearts thaw enough to embrace their chance at happiness.
Uncertain Sweethearts
Life in Fox Creek, Kansas allows for few luxuries until the railroad arrives. The train brings growth to the town along with these women who marry strangers. Little do these brides know that danger waits for them along with their uncertain grooms.
A disabled woman's chance at a job becomes a forgotten spinster's dream. But this home and husband lead to danger.
Does love wait for her --if she survives?
She dreams of catching the lawbreakers. Unfortunately, they catch her.
What will it take to convince Hazel that the man who rescues her is no hero? Will she ever love him and not some imagined hero?
This woman has secrets. Will she expose them to the lawman who loves her?
A blend of frontier small-town vibes and wholesome romance, mystery and adventure await the reader.
A heartbroken man advertises for a substitute. Can he handle the woman who arrives in this clean and wholesome western romance?
And a man claims to own the town. Is it true? Small town adventure and romance...
An unbelievable second chance. A mystery she must solve if they can have a life together.
Etta Larson had been told her husband was lost to her. When Erik appears in town, she can't help feeling angry and betrayed.
Ida Parton never expects to fall in love with the man. Instead, she intends to protect her charge from becoming his mail-order bride. As a chaperone, it is her duty to save Aggie from hard-drinking Clint Evans.
How can she marry another woman's fiancé?
Bailey's Meadow Brides
A series within a series, these women discover love and danger can hold hands on the frontier.
A spinster ready to risk being a mail-order bride. A man running from a lynch mob.
Together, they will form a family and brave the hardships of the Prairie.
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Will her surly groom send her back on the first train east when he realizes Sookie is mute? And who is the man who shadows her every movement in her new hometown?
Suddenly, Sookie's silence stands in her way of both happiness and safety.
Wren Donaldson rejects her wooer, Reynolds Harper, wanting him to only be her good friend. When Mildred Crenshaw, her mother's cousin, sends "the perfect groom" to Wren, she begins to realize her dream man already lives in Bailey’s Meadow. Too bad she rejected him.
Reynolds has settled into a friendship with Wren. Nothing more remains between them--or does it?
She is running to save her child. Will he be the man who rescues them or be the one to send them away?
A touching, faith-filled story set in Bailey's Meadow, this couple will struggle to overcome expectations and discover love in unexpected places. Fans of older main female characters will especially enjoy this romance.
Romance in Historical Wisconsin
Too bad he forgot to mention his children in the letter...
What happens after this Christmas bride discovers she's once again expected to be the unpaid nanny and cook? Will she find any tenderness from her stubborn German husband?
The first book about the Sittig brothers.
Soon after his bride’s arrival, Carl Sittig's problems start. Merrilee’s presence makes it difficult to maintain his facade of lunacy. After touching her, he longs to be her husband in truth.
With a ring of white slavers still operating in Idyll Wood and a threat from Merrilee's past, does this marriage have any chance?
Book two about the Sittig family.
If not for Sheriff Fred Sittig, her situation would have been tragic. She loves him for it.
No matter how often he tried to reason with Lilah, Sheriff Sittig could not get her to realize that she didn't love him and merely was grateful. After all, what would a beautiful and talented young woman want with a backwoods sheriff who could hardly read or write?
Book three that follows the Sittigs.
With Lilah Sittig's help, Charity reinvents herself. But did she make a smart choice?
Pinkerton Agent Charity Melrose has one more chance to prove her worth and the life of a woman to save. With few clues to the victim's whereabouts, this could be her last case.
And what to do with the fake husband who is her traveling companion?
A man who has loved her for five years without telling her… Only two weeks before he has to leave both her and Idyll Wood… A secret that keeps them apart….
Discover if Hart’s longing ever becomes true love.
From a logging camp to a local farm, this man and woman are on a collision course that leads them into marriage and a fight for Carlene’s life.
Will Carlene’s determination and Manny’s desire to save her be enough to lead them to a happy ending?
Historical Bundles
An omnibus edition of three interconnected mail-order romances.
A man might homestead, but it takes a woman to turn that place into a home! This matchmaker will settle the West one couple at a time.
Nostalgic Christmas romances, complete with little ones!
This set includes previously published titles grouped together as a holiday reading treat!
From a pie auction to a mail-order bride mix-up, follow these women as they navigate unexpected romances and dangerous threats. And just when all three believed that life had settled into the ordinary, a Christmas Eve to Remember brings back old enemies and new surprises.
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