Gilded Age
Ride the Trail of Death
Kieser builds on his ancestors’ experiences in 1870s Dakota Territory for this Western. On the trail to Deadwood, teenager Birch…
The German Bride
It’s Berlin, 1865, and Eva Frank, the romantic daughter of a Jewish banker, falls in love with a handsome painter…
Fall of Frost
Robert Frost, the beloved American poet, was born into a long and sorrow-ridden life in 1874. High infant mortality made…
A Daughter’s Inheritance
Set in upstate New York (Rochester and Broadmoor Island, a fictional island in the Thousand Island region of the St.…
The Anatomy of Deception
In the autopsy rooms of University Hospital, West Philadelphia, the young physician, Ephraim Carroll, is being taught about death by…
Souls of Angels
Sister Ria, a young nun who works with the poor in India, is abruptly called home to Los Angeles because…
A Bride So Fair
Emily Ralston, a young woman searching for independence and adventure, works in the Children’s Building at the Chicago World Fair…
Blessed Assurance
This novel is a compilation of three previous stories that make up the Blessed Assurance series; they follow the lives…
The Most Glorified Strip of Bunting
In 1871, the United States North Polar Expedition set sail in the Polaris, a converted river tug. Under the command…
A Proper Pursuit
In 1893, after returning home to Illinois from finishing school, 20-year-old high-spirited Violet Hayes discovers that her mother was not…
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