Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.

When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.

A captivating story of a young girl who must assume responsibility for raising her younger siblings. As the challenges intensify, she is determined in her faith to raise them as her mother would have wanted.

Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's prairie would be buried under ten feet of snow. Hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified and lost and freezing. John never wanted to move to the wide-open prairie....

After raising her daughter alone, will Sarah be able to overcome the distance between them as adults?

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

A blood feud smoldered between Adam Larey and his brother, Guerd, and erupted suddenly in savage insults and blazing guns. Thinking he'd killed his brother, Adam fled. But when the time came to face his fate, he was in for the biggest surprise of his life.

"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...

For two years Sarah Kennedy, a mail-order bride experiences painful sex at the hands of her husband, a brutal farmer. The experience leaves her hating sex, even after he dies. But one day there stumbles into her farmhouse lawman Case Maxwell and as she heals his wounds desire revives. Orphaned at thirteen, a mail-order bride at fourteen, widowed at sixteen, Sarah Kennedy has learned to depend upon no one but herself--reserving all her love for her...

Carolina Adams has an intense interest in the new technology of railroads. When her father hires a new tutor, James Baldwin, who shares the same interests, Carolina and James begin to have unexpected feelings for each other.