Starla Swanson and Marcum Walker were both children of the Orphan Train; however, they lived very different lives. Starla was shifted between families while Marc grew up in a loving environment and eventually became a police officer. Starla suffered abuse from family members, especially an older military son, Zeb, who had taken a fancy to her resulting in a pregnancy. Although she attempted to hide it until she graduated, she was thrown out of the house until a kind teacher took her in. There, she found another family in a nearby town to include an old captain, who embraced her and baby Rose...

Daughter of Independence: Kanti, the daughter of Peter Tipton, a past Captain and deserter in the French and Indian Wars and her Native American mother, was raised within a small Massachuset band which was part of the Algonquin tribe. During a skirmish with a British detail over illegal logging, she was captured and returned to Boston to live with her wealthy Loyalist grandmother, Margaret Tipton during the early Revolutionary War days. Though, Kanti was unable to acclimate to the English way of life, longing to find her father whose fate remained unknown. After being promised to a local...

Bobbi McClennon had only one goal and that was to leave the small town of Westnedge, Nebraska for the University of Lincoln as soon as possible. Though unexpectedly, life took a cruel turn when she attended a farewell bonfire with friends a week before her departure. Everything that she had planned and hoped for suddenly changed, resulting in her having to make some very challenging choices about her future. Though, she was determined to find the persons who wronged her with the help of an ostracized classmate and his gay partner who were involved with forensics. Only then could family...

The McAllister Twins lived the idyllic life on their Magnolia Plantation in Virginia as Southern Belles just before the beginning of the Civil War. Dolly, who resembled her mother, was blonde with blue eyes and charmed every available suitor during their many socials. Anna was hardworking and industrious, similar to her father and capable of all pursuits especially involving the plantation and horses. Both stunning in their own ways, they possessed conflicting personalities. Though, after the war had begun and both their father and brother enlisted, they would have to depend on their...

Lucy worked at Mercy Hospital in the Housekeeping Department, readying the surgical room and sterilizing the toys in the Fun Room on the children's floor. After she overheard a seriously ill child wishing for a letterbox to correspond with fairies similar to one in a much-loved book, it reminded her of her young daughter she had lost years ago. Lucy then brought in her daughter's old letterbox to clandestinely communicate with the children. She never imagined what a difference it made until she attempted to decorate the Fun Room into a Christmas fairyland, complete with a castle and sparkling...

"Miner Girls Gone," based on many actual events, is an inspiring story of three young women's lives during the coal mining era (1875) of Eastern Pennsylvania when the Molly Maguire organization terrorized the area. Born into mining families, they experienced many hardships and losses with aspirations of escaping the area to begin over again. Two of them were granted the opportunity to travel to Colorado in search of a better life. However, their past problems followed them while experiencing unexpected new dangers in an entirely new existence known as the "Wild West." Learn about an important...