Nan Curnutt
The Color of Lightning
Freedman Britt Johnson, his wife, and their three children left their home in Kentucky to homestead on the North Texas…
Madewell Brown
When Obie Poole, a retired Negro League baseball player from the ’20s, met Rachael Poole, he knew this orphan girl…
A Promise for Spring
In 1874 a tearful Emmaline Bradford traveled from her home in England to the plains of Kansas to meet her…
Imperfections
In 1862 fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth Godfrey, her brother Isaac, and baby sister Anne are taken by their mother to the…
A Duke to Die For
Lucien Trent Blakewell, fifth Duke of Blakewell, Blake to his friends, is surprised to find a beautiful young woman, obviously…
Paper Roses
Sarah Dobbs left Philadelphia in 1856 to escape from her troubles. She traveled to Ladreville, Texas, to become a mail-order…
Cherokee Thoughts, Honest and Uncensored
Novelist Robert J. Conley explores his own heritage in this nonfiction collection of essays about the Cherokee people, their history…
A Promise To Believe In
It is 1879 in Montana Territory. Gwen Gallatin is beginning to feel she is cursed. First, her husband, Harvey Bishop,…
The Sins of Lord Easterbrook
Soon after arriving in England from her home in Macao, Leona Montgomery meets up with the one man she can’t…
The Third Circle
In Leona Hewitt’s desperation to get back the aurora stone, a crystal that was stolen from her mother, she dresses…
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