A master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother,...

After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.

Autumn, 1837. Blazing onward from New York to Missouri, the legendary wagon train sent by U.S. President Andrew Jackson has reached the last outpost of civilization. Now five hundred strong, these brave pioneers set a course across the great rolling plains toward the treacherous Rockies, hoping to stake a claim in the American West. Led by their new wagon master "Whip" Holt, they must unite as a team if they are to survive, despite their vast differences....

The tale of American soldiers and the tiny town of North Platte, Nebraska, which welcomed these soldiers at their canteen.

In a time when the law was spread thin and honest men and women took care of difficulties by the law of rope and gun, families like the MacMahons were the backbone of the developing west. For eight years, the disappearance of Niobrara ranchers Owen and Aiden MacMahon remained a mystery. When an outlaw gang leaves another MacMahon for dead, the MacMahons hunt them down, only to find an old enemy -- and the answer to the eight-year-old mystery.

"One name ... divided between two cousins...equals big trouble for three hearts! When Gavin Miller is hired on to set up a gristmill for the prospering town of Buttonwood, Nebraska, he's looking to build more than a business. For the first time, Gavin isin a position to request the hand of the woman he's never forgotten: Miss Marguerite Chandler. When Marge steps down from the stagecoach, Gavin realizes the terrible blunder he's made. While he never...

"Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo"--