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Eager to leave the past behind and begin a new life in America, Inga Sorensen journeys from Norway to South Dakota with a packet of love letters and a promise of wedding bells. But when she arrives in Pierre, her dreams of a home and a loving husband are dashed. Instead of the groom she expects, she meets Tom Mitchell. Tom has problems of his own, and he doesn’t need a headstrong woman added to them.

Is it ever too late to do what is right? A fusion of steampunk and superheroics...this is the Rail. Mix in a healthy dose of human foibles, and you are in for a reading on the ups and downs of paranormals, how people react to them, and how their actions shape (and destroy) the world around them.

Mary Kruger has no choice but to accompany her family to Desolation Point, where mysterious tragedies happen with alarming regularity. In this isolated setting with Lake Superior's waters on three sides and a forest on the other, Mary must overcome her fear of water, wild animals, and the ghosts of Desolation Point. To save herself and her family, she must untangle past mysteries in order to prevent her family from becoming another sad entry in the Desolation Point Lighthouse log book.

Summer McCloud has been managing without her mother for five years now. But what she knows about Lila McCloud could fill a teacup. When a woman is murdered the same day she buys a book from Tarot and Tea, the occult shop Summer inherited when her mother disappeared, Summer's life begins to unravel. She is the number one suspect in the murder investigation. But Summer is an amateur sleuth and has visions about murders - she can solve this one, can't she?

Our Odyssey is the story of the travels and perils of two children who are sent to North America during World War II to escape the bombing of London. They must survive a number of dangerous situations while the girl and her brother endure a number of life-threatening circumstances during the next decade before they finally settle in the place they desire.

This is the fourth book in the series. Sheriff Rob Hardin has a tough job. With her three sisters no longer acting as sheriff along with her, her brother-in-law insists the town hire a deputy. Rob agrees, but reluctantly. Leslie should be a huge help, and it brings her some comfort to know another female will be sharing her living quarters. Leslie arrives in Waterhole, but is nothing like Rob expected. Nothing at all! What will happen between the two?

When the furniture removers empty the family tenement as payment for back rent, 10-year-old Kathleen Flannigan fears that her family will soon be homeless and hungry. Kathleen vows to save her family from ruin, even though her plan means personal sacrifice. Will the orphan train going to Michigan be the answer to Kathleen's vision of a better life for herself and her family?

When Danny and his little sister are left alone in New York City, he decides to take his sister and ride the Orphan Train out west, hoping to find a new family and a new life.

There was little about the childhood of Phoebe Ann Mosey that indicated that she would grow up to become Annie Oakley, one of the best sharpshooters the world has ever seen, and an icon of the West. Her parents, Jacob and Susan, were Quakers who migrated from Pennsylvania to Darke County, Ohio. Their daughter, who would become a national celebrity during her own life for "The Little Sure Shot of the West", learned her gun skills out of necessity, using them to hunt for food around the Cincinnati area, thousands of miles away from the Wild West.