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After her parents die and a cholera epidemic wracks the colony, Temperance feels called by God to take the surviving orphaned children back East to their extended families. But the only man available to accompany her on the dangerous journey over the Oregon Trail is Thaddeus Brennan, a hard-edged drifter with good reasons of his own to get out of town. Despite the mismatch of Temperances purity with Thads hot temper, heavy drinking, and distaste for...
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Ever since her motherś death, twenty-two year old Jori Hayden has lived safely under the shelter of her wealthy father. But when the severe economic depression of the 1800s destroys the familyś fortune, the Haydens must venture west together along the Santa Fe Trail in search of a new livelihood. With her father in poor health and her Aunt Kate̜a dedicated Christian̜keeping charge over the younger siblings, Jori hires Chad Rocklin right out of...
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Though the war for American independence has come to an end, Nathanael "Fox" Carter still struggles to survive the tragic loss he has suffered. When greed and selfish ambition threaten to destroy the only home he has known, Fox and his mother flee over the Misty Mountains to start a new life. But with growing hostilities between the settlers and the Cherokee, Fox soon discovers frontier life is a daily battle for survival.
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While Sarah MacNeal struggles with the death of Philip Baxter, her stepbrother, Jacob Spencer, escorts her and her friend Amanda Taylor back across the mountains to Williamsburg to visit Jacob's grandparents. There Jacob becomes embroiled in a struggle that forces him to decide his loyalty between the British and the patriots, and between the two women who have touched his heart.
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Laurie Winslow, working with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in order to earn money for college, runs into old friend Cody Rogers and manages to land him a job as a trick roper with the troupe, but as the two young people's feelings for one another grow, so does the fear that Cody's troubled past is about to catch up with him.
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Sabrina Fairfax was raised in an elegant house with servants catering to her every desire. With her father's unexpected death, she finds herself impoverished and alone in London. Among his papers, however, she discovers a deed to a piece of land in the Colonies and seizes it as her best, and perhaps only, hope.
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Mayflower descendant Betsy Winslow, fed up with always coming in second to her sister Lanie, elopes with a man whose promises fall far short of reality, and when Lanie learns of Betsy's plight, she discovers her only hope of rescuing her sister lies in the hands of an outlaw named Lobo.
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Laurie Winslow, working with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in order to earn money for college, runs into old friend Cody Rogers and manages to land him a job as a trick roper with the troupe, but as the two young people's feelings for one another grow, so does the fear that Cody's troubled past is about to catch up with him.