Marry Me! Inc.

Chapter 20, Just a Farm Girl. Colonel Clement E. Begg, while making preparations to meet "his Women", is interrupted by Count Ozera with threatening news about his and Barabal's plans. When they later meet in the Fairview dining room, Lorcan is next door in the bar. There, he and the rest of the Fairview's patrons witness the explosive aftermath of the Count's and the Colonel's decision.

Chapter 19, Hide or Wear Armour. In good spirits the women - and Lorcan - finally arrive in Dawson, where the women are to be auctioned off. Lorcan says "goodbye" to Captain Zhukov and hops off the sternwheeler to find his way among the throngs and chaos of newcomers. But the women get a shock when they see where they are staying. Colonel Clement E. Begg, who has been preparing for the arrival of "his women", has several surprises in store for him, too. The first is when he meets the astonishingly gorgeous Barabal, the second is when a steaming mad Malvina hunts him down, and the third is when he learns what plans Count Ozera has for Barabal.

Chapter 18, The Marooning of Silas Neto. Although Letta Belli and a few of the other women heading to Dawson know it, Barabal, Malvina, and the Count have no idea that Lorcan is onboard with them on the sternwheeler, the SS Monarch, as it is about to head up the Yukon River toward the gold fields. Lorcan's immediate problem is that he does not have passage, but his bigger problem is that Barabal, in the company of the Count, only now thinks of him as "that boy" - if at all.

Chapter 17, I Am Not in Love. As he now sees Barabal slipping away, for help Lorcan turns to Yoska, the man who helped Count Ozera in the latter's scheme to discredit him. Yoska, a man who does not lack generosity or compassion, offers him a solution, but it is one that requires Lorcan's continued presence in a place only next door to hell.

Chapter 16, A Phoney Is a Phoney. Lorcan becomes convinced that Count Cezar Emil Ozera, with whom Barabal seems to have become infatuated, is not who he says he is, and devises a plan to take advantage of information which has come his way.

Chapter 15, A Sad and Tortured Life. Count Cezar Emil Ozera, after welcoming the women, sends Barabal and Malvina on a mission to Seattle to satisfy an urgent need. This trip changes the two women's relationship to each other and their view of their grand adventure, at least for the time being, and spills over into a special event the Count has arranged for them. Swept up by the mood and the Count's magnetic smile, Barabal's imagination takes hold of her.

Chapter 14, Count Cezar Emil Ozera. Lorcan is off to meet the man in charge of Marry Me! Inc.'s affairs in Seattle, Cezar Emil Ozera, the twelfth Count of Ploiesti, as Tavish McIsaac, the somewhat dull-witted employee of Marry Me! Inc. cannot quite understand what Lorcan is doing with the group. But when, on Tavish's recommendation, the Count meets Barabal and Malvina and all becomes clear, the need for Lorcan's presence is thrown into question.

Chapter 13, And Out of His a Briar. We left Lorcan on the Glasgow, Montana, train station platform looking for Barabal, with Malvina and the group's new acquaintance, Letta Belli watching with great interest from the train. In this first episode of Part 2, Under the Gun, we discover whether Lorcan was successful in finding her, and we follow the group as they arrive in Seattle and settle in to wait for their departure north.

Chapter 12, The Great Northern Flyer. Barabal and Malvina board the Great Northern Flyer, one of the trans-continental work-horses, heading for Seattle and beyond and what they hope will be a brighter future. Lorcan is in tow in his new role, but discovers soon enough that life with Barabal is not simple -- she is not one of the bumpkins to whom he had become accustomed -- and what he perceived was another stroke of Lorcan's Luck might be something else.

Chapter 11, Man-Servant. After the convolutions of Chicago -- the Collision, the neighbourhood toughs, the Italian grocer, the glimpse of the cadaverous man with the black top hat, and the eye-opening respite in the Gilded Parrot -- Barabal's and Malvina's -- and now Lorcan's -- futures become enmeshed once again, but in a manner surprising to all.

Chapter 10, The Gilded Parrot. Barabal and Lorcan, have found temporary refuge in a seedy quarter of downtown Chicago, in a house which Barabal believes might be a refuge for homeless young women, like herself. There, in the Gilded Parrot, Madame La Douceur and her girls, Yvette, Georgia, and Nadia, take Barabal in hand and open her eyes wide. But do they have ulterior motives in treating her so kindly? Might a temporary refuge become a permanent abode?

Chapter 9, The Return of Father Jim. After becoming separated from her Aunt Malvina, and after the collision with Lorcan, Barabal finds herself abandoned and alone in the grip of two Chicago toughs who have more on their minds than hospitality, while Lorcan, his own needs in mind, has run off with his ham under his arm. But what is this of Father Jim? Is he not dead?

Chapter 8, Chicago. Barabal and Malvina leave new York heading west as they begin what Malvina hopes will be their escape from poverty, and on the day of the collision (Chapter One) they arrive exhausted in Chicago. Meanwhile Lorcan, already in Chicago, starts his day in a manner to which he has become accustomed.

Chapter 6, Father James O'Doherty. We now shift to Montreal to where Lorcan grew up. There we see what role Father James O'Doherty played in shaping Lorcan's (and Barabal's) fate. Chapter 7, Lorcan's Luck. Lorcan's life took a turn after leaving Father Jim's care. It was during this time of brushes with the law that the saying "Lorcan's Luck" came about, a kind of luck perhaps reserved for those with charmed existences.

Chapter 5, Rev. George Carring and Col. C. E. Begg. Reverend George Carring and Colonel Clement E. Begg meet by chance on a ferry while crossing beautiful Lake Champlain. They are each just reading about fabulous gold discoveries in the Klondike, which is in an unheard of corner of the Yukon Territory in Canada's north -- and this coincidence creates an audacious plan to make them both very rich.

Chapter 3. Barabal and her aunt, Malvina MacPherson embark in Glasgow on their grand journey to fulfill the dreams each has about New York and a new life. On the ship they meet Marvin and Mike, one of whom has a profound influence over their futures. Chapter 4. Barabal and Malvina settle in New York, with Marvin's help. However, reality seldom matches the dream, and that Malvina denies this becomes a problem -- for all of them. Finally, in her desperation, when she spots a picture of the handsome Colonel Clement E. Begg in a newspaper, Malvina hatches a plan to save herself and Barabal.

Introduction to Marry Me! Inc. Chapter 1, The Collision. We begin Marry Me! Inc by witnessing the sudden and fateful meeting of two of the principal characters, Lorcan Farrell and Barabal Abbot. Each is on the run. Each impedes the other's escape. Chapter 2, Reverend Bryce MacAulay. After Lorcan and Barabal meet, we retreat to Scotland, Barabal's homeland, to find out what spurred a farm girl from north of Glasgow to head off to Chicago, and what Reverend Bryce MacAulay had to do with it.