The Farmer's Bride Collection: 6 Romances Spring from Hearts, Home, and Harvest

Love is in season as you journey into rural America’s history and witness the harvest of romance through six delightful stories. From Minnesota to Florida, New York to Kansas, and Ohio to Louisiana, heroic men and women make sacrifices in order to create a home, nurture the crops, and secure a future for the next generation, but sometime romance is almost an afterthought. Can love also grow down on the farm?

Kimberley gets her inspiration from all sorts of places: travel, history, dreams and once over hearing (okay...eavesdropping on)  a conversation between a couple arguing in the grocery store line.  She not only is the author of 13 Inspirational romance books, but also writes and produces church musicals. She has been married for 28 years to her best friend, Brian, and has one son, Tyler, and a brand new daughter-in-law, Kellie! Kimberley resides with her family near New Orleans.

As the wife of a minister, Susan Downs has lived in towns, big and small, all around the world―from her childhood village in Oklahoma to such eclectic states as Indiana, Missouri, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Texas, and even in faraway lands like South Korea. And yet, no matter what her address, wherever her husband of forty-three years is, that's where she calls HOME. Currently, Susan resides in Texas and she is employed as a fiction editor for Guideposts Publications.

JoAnn lives on the Minnesota prairie which is a setting for many of her stories. Once a full-time CPA,  JoAnn now spends most of her time researching and writing. JoAnn has published historical nonfiction books for children and several novels with Barbour Publishing in the Heartsong Presents line as well as the American Adventure and Sisters in Time series for children. Several of her novellas are included in CBA bestselling anthologies by Barbour Publishing. JoAnn’s love of history developed when she worked at an historical restoration in North Carolina for five years. She enjoys researching and weaving her fictional characters’ lives into historical backgrounds and events. JoAnn believes that readers can receive a message of salvation and encouragement from well-crafted fiction. She captures and addresses the deeper meaning between life and faith.

Ellen grew up in the Adirondack region of New York State where The Applesauce War takes place. A former award-winning advertising copywriter, she is the author Irregardless of Murder and Death Dangles a Participle, the first two books in the Miss Prentice Cozy mystery series from Sheaf House Publishers. She and her husband live in North Carolina, where they are the happy grandparents of five
little answers to prayer.

Debby Mayne has published more than 50 books and novellas, 400 print short stories and articles, more than 1,000 web articles, and a bunch of devotions for women. She has been managing editor of a national health magazine, product information fashion writer for HSN, product writer for Zulily, creative writing instructor for the Long Ridge Writers Group, and etiquette expert for About.com. Most of her stories feature strong, southern women who overcome all sorts of obstacles.