Christmas Charity by Susan G Mathis is set in the late 1800s; a story about an arranged marriage between Susan Hawkins, a 23-year-old young woman, and an older widower named Patrick O'Neill. Susan is a teacher and lives at home with her parents and siblings...

Katelyn’s mother has recently died, and she is left living on the farm with her father and brothers who are not very nice people; her mother told her to escape the farm and go and see the “enchanted Thousand Islands." Katelyn is lucky enough to...