You have a twin in America, somewhere in that western land. Find her if you can. Those are the astounding words of her mother's final letter and all twenty-year-old Sky Hoffman has left in the world. So she sets out on a journey across an ocean in se...
There just aren't that many girls of marriageable age in Sand Creek. Much as their fathers had before them, young men from Sand Creek, Minnesota, venture into the northern wilderness to begin a new town. And, as was the case with the previous generat...
No one suspected a woman to do a man’s job. Nineteen-year-old Emma Newly’s life is so predictable, and teaching school in Sand Creek just doesn’t satisfy her longing for excitement. Then news arrives about an accident involving her father, a...
They want a Norwegian wife for their son Nels. Her aunt's letter is a command that Irena must obey. Travel across the ocean to America, where there's a husband and a home waiting for her. So Irena sets off filled with trepidation and uncertainty but ...
Most brides view their weddings as a dream come true. Mattie Morrison wishes her wedding was only a dream. When Mattie awakes from a deep sleep, she's in for quite a surprise. While she was sleeping, an irate preacher had done what he considered his ...
Daniel’s heart started thumping wildly when he saw the knife in the man’s chest -- not any knife -- his knife. Daniel Dunn thought his life couldn’t get any worse. His beloved wife died giving birth to their only son and he was left to care for...
"You're kind of cute. If we was stayin' in this backwoods town, I'd be your feller." Delaney Dunn never forgot the words or the face of the impudent boy who spoke to her eight years ago. Perhaps it was her memory of him and the wink he gave her that ...
“He said to tell you he didn’t mean it.” Shawn knew his pa was talking about Dylan, but that didn’t change the fact that there was a rift between the two men. Once brothers, they were now barely speaking to one another. Shawn knew the real re...
“This should never have happened to me.” Shanghaied, tortured, and beaten down, Keane Wheatly turns to a fellow prisoner for help. Together Keane and Jake make their escape back to the Wheatly farm in Ulen, Minnesota, as far from an ocean as they...
It was another new start, only this time not in a city where anonymity was possible, but rather in a brand new town carved out of the wilderness of northern Minnesota where Meredith was to learn that people not only helped one another but cared about...