Hardship is all Kate Mayer has ever known. Raised in an old stucco house on the outskirts of Turkey Creek Camp in the Panhandle of Texas, she becomes the lady of the house at the age of eleven. Her life becomes worse when her father marries a woman with three children and Kate is forced to do everything for them also. Marrying for convenience, Kate leaves Texas for the lush grape country of California where her new husband, Buck Jones, owns a farm. Knowing Buck married her out of pity keeps Kate from letting him know she is falling in love with him. Having a beautiful Mexican woman helping to...

When Barbara Newbrough sees a shadowy figure ride into town on an icy morning, she never dreams how arrogant and angry the young man can be. A flood of emotions envade her ranging from anger to compassion to strings pulling at the heart. She doesn't know how she can gain the confidence of the stranger even though he has moved into her mother's boardinghouse. To Jeremiah Johnson, Turkey Creek Camp is a desolate place. The Texas Panhandle is a long way from the comforts of Georgia and the plantation he lived on. If he wasn't determined to find answers to his past he would never have been driven...

Grace Thomlin has enjoyed growing up in Boston. The town was her playground and growing up with her brother, Will, and best friend, Cameron Stallworth, was exciting. They enjoyed the freedom they had to explore the island as it grew toward the river and Cambridge. They watched as hoards of immigrants came through the port and took up residents in the quickly overcrowding communities. As a blossoming young woman, her mother, Dorothea Thomlin, tried to curtail her tomboyish behavior much to Grace's dismay. She was chastised for climbing trees and smelling like the crabs she caught along the...

Are you super busy with many tasks to accomplish? You plan what to do for the day and somehow you fail to remember all the tasks you were to do? Have you tried putting down on the list those tasks and still you barely make a dent in that list? Whenever you get down to rest your mind races, reminding you ahead of activities awaiting you to do. Sometimes you even forget to include some tasks on your to-do list. The question is, is your to-do list helpful to you? Many people are faced with this challenge and often find themselves at crossroads, what to do first with the limited time left. The...