Colleen L Reece

In 1621, newly arrived at Plymouth Colony, eleven-year-old Rebekah and her family find themselves facing a difficult winter with little food, inadequate shelter, sickness, and little hope for the future until help arrives with an unexpected visitor.

Those who listen hear the silence in the sage that precedes a storm. Those who hunker down and wait find peace when the tempest comes. A man braves the western frontier, putting his life on the line to develop a new land ... and a new love. Gideon Scott, far from home, rides the range of emotions. Can he ever be worthy of the woman he loves? Will he find his true worth? Will renewed faith be the trail that leads to his bride?

Timothy Sterling scoffs at love at first sight . . . until he meets Angelina Montoya. Tim is smitten with the dark-haired beauty - in spite of suspecting she is less than angelic. Free at last from the sheltered atmosphere of her San Francisco convent school, eighteen-year-old Angel is enchanted with life on her father's hacienda. Her charm and rich inheritance attract would-be suitors, but Don Fernando insists she wed a wealthy hacendado to continue...

Kidnapped and then abandoned as a child, Joyous grows up amid the California Gold Rush as the adopted daughter of lovable prospector Angus McFarlane. Brit O'Donnell escapes the potato famine in Ireland to find a better life in the Monterey, California. The Silver Rush will test his mettle. Fifteen-year-old Carlos Montoya, son of a Castilian patrician, also ventures to California with dreams of silver. Three separate lives to be brought together by...