"After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology. But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed...

Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations on reservations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, a handsome riverboat captain who has been injured, a friendship grows between them--but will the secret of her heritage and rising tensions with the native people prevent them from finding true happiness?

1890s. Emily Carver is tired of following her gold-hunting father from one mining camp to another: she wants a home where she can put down roots. When she realizes she's losing her heart to the intriguing new man in their Montana camp, she is afraid that love will only result in disappointment and heartache. Caeden Thibault is a young geologist cataloging minerals indigenous to the state. He avoids romantic entanglements, fearing he might become like...

"With the extraordinary changes to society and families ushered in with the Industrial Revolution, the quaint countryside of Lilly Armbruster's youth has been transformed, bringing to some great wealth and to others tragic loss. Forced to work in the mill as her only means of survival, Lilly is deeply resentful of the powerful mill owners she believes have stolen her father's farm and caused his premature death. Though intent on avenging herself,...

A delightful novel highlighting history with spiritual themes, "Beneath a Harvest Sky" finds a young tour guide being implicated in the disappearance of Hopi Indian artifacts. When all evidence points in Rainy Gordon's direction, will the truth be revealed in time?

Disowned by her parents for marrying a man they disapproved of, Ashley Reynolds faces even greater hardship when she loses her husband in a tragic incident and she's left alone with a baby on the way.

As the lone female in a houseful of men, Merrill Krause dedicates her life to caring for her family and their business, as her dying mother asked. Besides, it suits her; she's never felt like she fits what most people expect in a girl. She'd rather work with her father's horses and assist with the ice harvest. And though she's been mostly content up to this point, a part of her wonders if there will ever be anyone who will notice her amid the bevy...

1929 San Marcial, New Mexico After traveling the West for the past ten years, working as a Harvey House girl, Gretchen Gottsacker learns her next assignment puts her back in the town of her childhood. She quickly forms a friendship with a precocious girl named Katiann, until one of their visits leads her face to face with Katiann's father--the man who abandoned Gretchen on the eve of what she was sure would be a marriage proposal. Now a widower,...

"Invited by a friend to help establish the newly formed town of Cheyenne, Edward Vogel is prepared to leave the haunting memories of his wife and son's deaths behind him. The only problem is the corrupt new railroad town wants family men who can establish law and order, and desperation leads Edward to his friend Marybeth with a proposition of marriage. After her father's death leaves her with no means of support, Marybeth Kruger has no choice but...

"Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her father's freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a 'respectable life' with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, she's bound to the ship and her deeply grieving father more than ever. Nick Clark is grateful to...