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Berta has spent much of her life striving to be the opposite of her adorable sister, Glenna. As Glenna grows into a vivacious and outgoing young wife and mother, Berta carefully molds herself into a prim spinster and dependable member of her family. But her aloofness and pride must exact a price. Soon, Berta will need to examine her soul for the true motives at work in her heart.

Verna Louisa is forced to live in an insane asylum with her mother, who frequently reminds her 18-year-old daughter, "We are not lunatics." When a handsome young man arrives, Verna Louisa wonders if he's a new inmate. Even though he's not, she enjoys seeing him when he visits his grandfather, who insists he doesn't belong there. Verna Louisa feels the same way, but how can she and her mother ever escape?

Since 18-year-old Cairo Bianchi grew up in the circus, it's the only life she's known. An accident in the Big Top undermines her courage, making her more determined to follow her dream of becoming a town lady and winning the heart of the train station master's son.

Banished from her home, Sophora Manetti must make her own way in the world. But when she discovers that she is a neighbor to the shady newspaper man, Nelson Williams, can she trust him with successfully advertising her new business? Misunderstood by most of the media and the citizens of New York City, reporter Nelson Williams moves to Wyoming to start life over again, establishing his own newspaper business. When lovely Sophora moves in across the street as a direct business rival to the wife of the bank manager who carries his loan, will Nelson act in his own best interest?

Lori never lived in a house before, but she’s taken from the trading post she grew up in, a kind woman with a secret past teaches her about running water, underwear, and social conventions. What the woman, Brigitte, doesn't teach Lori is how to communicate with Brigitte's handsome son, Craig.

When she suddenly finds herself homeless, frightening discoveries about her suitor and her uncle force Bonny to escape westward on a train. When a handsome stranger offers his help, she doesn’t know if she can trust him. When Trace Masters travels to Boston to pick up a rare horse for his ranch, he decides that he can hardly wait to get away from the crowded city and return to the wide open spaces of his South Dakota ranch. What he didn’t figure on was the tug at his heart that compels him to help a beautiful young woman with eyes like a frightened fawn.

Everyone thinks Ellie’s father was killed by Indians, but she doesn’t believe it. In fact, she would go looking if she knew how to find him. When she meets handsome Curtis Locken and his mysterious friend, Moses, she not only feels stirrings of love, but rising hope that she might find her father at last.

My father asked me to keep the strangest parts of this story to myself, but I’ve always worked my thoughts out better when I put them on parchment. So, this journey begins the day an angel informed me I would have a baby - before I was even married. From making goat cheese to disappearing for three months, I traveled further in the next few years than I had in the 14 years before them. But my spiritual pilgrimage was only the beginning.