JoAnna Lacy
24) Web of destiny
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Alan Kane lost a beloved brother at the Alamo and grieves terribly. His one consolation is that he will be reunited with Adam someday in heaven. Meanwhile the United States seems to be caught in a web of destiny to fight Mexico. When General Sam Houston prepares to face off against General Santa Anna, the three remaining Kane brothers volunteer once again, leaving their heavy-hearted wives on the Diamond K Ranch. Who will return this time when the...
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As proprietors of the General Store in Independence, Missouri, Hannah and Solomon Cooper join a wagon train West. In the dangerous journey that follows , despite great opposition - Hannah continues on to fort Brdger, displaying grit, courage, and a faith deep enough to sustain her family through life's greatest trials.
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Dr. Dane Logan and his wife, Tharyn, are happily settled in Central City and considering the right time to start a family. Their medical practice in the little mining town keeps them busy with everything from new babies and appendicitis to gunshot wounds and a rancher gored by a bull. It's almost more than one doctor can keep up with. Then when the stagecoach he's riding crashes down a ravine, Dane awakens with a head injury--and no idea who he is....
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Young Dane Weston's dream is to become a doctor. But it will take more than just determination to realize his goal, once his family is murdered and he ends up in a colony of street waifs begging for food. Then he ends up mistaken for a murderer himself and sentenced to life in prison. Now what will become of his friendship with the pretty orphan girl, Tharyn, who wanted to enter the medical profession herself? Does she feel he is anything more than...
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Handsome, accomplished Dr. Erik Linden veers between heroism and accolades/ failure and despair in this fascinating new historical novel. A recent medical graduate in nineteenth-century Switzerland, Erik finds himself in a crisis of faith after his former fiancee dies on his operating table. Should he give up performing surgery? Should he abandon his homeland and seek a better life in a freer place? Meanwhile, lovely young Dova, a friend in Erik's...
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Emily McDermott loses her only child to pneumonia. Later when she see's Patty Ruth playing outside, Emily mistakes Hannah Cooper's daughter for her own and sneaks her home without anyone seeing. Hannah not faces the nightmare of Patty Ruth's disappearance and struggles to trust in the Lord and has only one wish for Christmas - to have her daughter back.
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Hannah Cooper and her frontier children often urge their Jewish friend, Jacob Kates, to consider Jesus' claim to be Messiah. Thirteen-year-old mary Beth even tels Jacob she would give her very life if it meant he would become Christ's follower. Only when Mary Beth's words are put to a fearful test does Jacob recognize he's on his own Damascus journey.
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Young Russian Vladimir Petrovna is always minutes away from disaster. He is a Christian in a pagan country that exacts extreme penalties from believers. His farm is nearly destroyed by blight and he cannot pay the taxes he owes. And he is a husband and father of three whose daughter is secretly in love with a Cossack-one of the very soldiers who persecute families like Vladimir's. Though he may lose everything he loves, Vladimir must trust God as...