Big Pine Brides — A 5-Book Mountain Man Mail-Order Bride Series

BIG PINE BRIDES

A Mountain Man Mail-Order Bride Series

5-Book Series • Alternating First Person • Five HEAs + Series-Finale Wedding

“Five wounded women answer a quiet Alaskan matchmaking ad. Five Calder cousins fly them in, one at a time, and never let them leave.”

Frostpeak, Alaska is a bush town of four hundred and twelve people, accessible only by bush plane in winter, with one diner, one chapel, and one logging company — Big Pine, run by the Calder cousins for three generations.

What it does not have is enough women. What it does have is Maeve “Gran” Calder above Pearl’s Diner, who has spent two years writing letters under the name Mrs. M. By the time the cousins figure out what their grandmother has done, they’re all married.

Five possessive heroes who each sound nothing like the other four. Five curvy heroines with their own voices, their own wounds, and their own active moments of agency. A five-bride found family forms across the series, with Pearl, Gran, and Annie at the centre — and a chickadee on the chapel windowsill that has been there every Sunday for sixty-two years.

Five guaranteed HEAs. One series-finale wedding. One secret matchmaker revealed.

Book One — The Logger’s Mail Order Bride (Sloane & Cole)

“She came to Frostpeak for the distance. He intends to keep her for the rest of her life.”

The Logger · Cole

Sloane Beck is a twenty-six-year-old Seattle ER nurse with a wrist scar she keeps under her sleeve and an ex-boyfriend with a Seattle PD badge who put it there.

Cole Calder, thirty-eight, runs Big Pine Logging Co. and has worn his grandfather’s wedding band on a chain for six years — waiting for the woman he was going to marry without yet having her name.

Cole reads what Sloane won’t say within five seconds of meeting her. He hands her a bedroom with a lock on the door and a door she can walk out of any time. He claims her at Pearl’s Diner in front of forty witnesses on day two. On day six, her ex finds the diner’s landline. When Russ Brennan charters a plane into Frostpeak, Sloane walks to Pearl’s herself and gives an Anchorage PD detective a forty-one-minute statement — and Cole assembles the cousins at the Trapline Bar for an arrival no Seattle cop expected.

Instalove • Fleeing an Abusive Ex • Alternating First Person (Sloane & Cole) • HEA

Book Two — The Foreman’s Widowed Bride (June & Wyatt)

“She arrived with her late husband’s ring on a chain and her late husband’s dog on a leash. The foreman of Big Pine never asked her to put either of them down.”

The Foreman · Wyatt

June Whitfield is a twenty-eight-year-old Portland schoolteacher widowed eighteen months ago when her husband fell climbing in the Columbia Gorge. She steps off the plane in March with one duffel, a chocolate Labrador named Boone, and her late husband’s gold band on a chain.

Wyatt Calder, thirty-nine, is the Big Pine foreman and the man raising his late sister’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Annie.

Wyatt doesn’t flinch at the ring. He kneels for the dog before he reaches for June. He asks her on day one what her husband called her, then waits eight days before he uses the name himself. When her late husband’s brother flies up to take Boone back, Wyatt writes a check on his kitchen table, gets a signature on a one-line release, and puts him on the next plane. The morning Wyatt carves a small cedar chickadee for June’s palm, she puts the old wedding ring in a wooden box and lays the bird on top.

Instalove • Widow Heroine • Alternating First Person (June & Wyatt) • HEA

Book Three — The Sawyer’s Indebted Bride (Mary-Kate & Beau)

“She came to Alaska to outrun fifteen thousand dollars of debt her ex opened in her name. He sat across from her in a fraud attorney’s office and made the math go away.”

The Sawyer · Beau

Mary-Kate “MK” Donnelly is twenty-four, five-foot-two, a former Vegas waitress with strawberry-blond curls and three years of identity-theft debt opened in her name by an ex named Kevin.

Beau Calder — thirty-six, six-foot-four, the sawmill operator with nine years of solitude in an off-grid cabin eight miles out — lifts her into his truck without speaking a dozen words.

MK’s phone rings inside the first hour: a recovery agency, a fourteen-day wage-garnishment notice. Beau makes her a grilled cheese and asks no questions. When the calls reach Pearl’s diner phone next, Beau has an Anchorage fraud attorney on retainer. MK signs an FTC identity-theft affidavit, a seven-year fraud alert, and a certified cease-and-desist. Beau pays the legal fees and tells her, the next morning, about a girl who humiliated him at eighteen, and nine years of building one life with no one to share a kettle with.

Instalove • Financial Rescue, Grumpy Hero • Alternating First Person (Mary-Kate & Beau) • HEA

Book Four — The Bush Pilot’s Pregnant Bride (Penny & Ryker)

“She arrived twenty weeks pregnant by a stranger. He had a cupboard ready for her ginger candy before her plane touched down.”

The Bush Pilot · Ryker

Penelope “Penny” Sato is twenty-seven, a San Francisco software engineer turned novelist, twenty weeks pregnant by a Valentine’s stranger whose last name she never got.

Ryker Calder, forty-one, is the oldest cousin — Big Pine’s bush pilot, ex-160th SOAR, the quietest of the five. He clocks her pregnancy on the Anchorage tarmac. He has been preparing his concrete-and-glass house for her for six weeks.

On day three, Penny tells Ryker in his bedroom doorway. He says he already knows — five months, a boy, and he wants them both. On day eleven, Ryker overhears two Lower-48 suits laying out a buyout plan to stress Big Pine into bankruptcy. Penny — built on reading patterns in code — finds the Alaska homestead-exemption argument that night and walks into Cole’s kitchen by morning with a defense their attorney confirms. At thirty-eight weeks she goes into labor during a whiteout blizzard with no airstrip open, and Ryker flies her through weather no civilian pilot would touch.

Instalove • Pregnant on Arrival, Ex-Military Hero • Alternating First Person (Penny & Ryker) • HEA

Book Five — The Wild Cousin’s Jilted Bride (Hazel & Knox) • Series Finale

“Three weeks after a Tennessee groom walked out at the altar, she stumbled into a Frostpeak diner in her wedding dress. The youngest Calder cousin had been cleaning his apartment every Sunday waiting for her.”

The Wild Cousin · Knox

Hazel Anne Hopkins is twenty-three, a florist’s assistant from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Tyler Mercer walked out the side door of First Baptist Murfreesboro at three twenty-two p.m. on November seventeenth, in front of three hundred people. Three weeks later, Hazel flies herself to Anchorage in the wedding dress on purpose.

Knox Calder, thirty-three, is the family’s youngest cousin and the Big Pine logistics man — and he has been cleaning his apartment above the Trapline every Sunday for three months.

Knox stops being the man his reputation said he was the second the bell over Pearl’s door rings. He doesn’t drink at his own bar for nine straight nights. He buys her Sorel boots before he kisses her. When Tyler flies up to Frostpeak “to explain himself,” Knox stands at her shoulder without speaking and lets Hazel deliver a four-hundred-word speech at Pearl’s counter that ends with thank you for the side door.

Instalove • Jilted at the Altar, Reformed Playboy • Alternating First Person (Hazel & Knox) • HEA + Series HEA

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Five reads. Five releases. One rapid-release season. ❤