"With the death of her grandfather, her only living relative, Christine Bennett felt a deep loneliness. The words of his will rang in her ears. Jeffers had watched her with an evil, self-satisfied look that made her shiver. Now, afraid of what might happen, she was obeying a note she had received saying she was in danger and must leave town immediately. After escaping to the small community of Baxter, Christine begins to piece together a new life."--Page...

One of the bestselling Christian novelists of our time, Janette Oke's books have been described as stories that never go out of style. Her readers have enjoyed and benefited from the spiritual insights and practical faith in God that accompany her homey stories. This books is the moving story of a 15-year-old who, unable to tolerate her drinking father's abuse, joins a wagon train heading West.

"Why, Cara, why did you do it?" "Maybe no one wants to see me as I really am. Maybe in this family it isn't all right to be different. And I am different, Kitty, whether anyone wants to admit it or not." "But, Cara,--it just seems like tonight you set out deliberately to cause trouble." "Even you don't understand, do you, Kitty?" "I do, I mean I'm trying to. You're my twin, I want to understand!" "Yes, I know we're twins, but who am I?" demanded Cara...

Stacey Thornton relocates to the estate in northern California bequeathed to her by an aunt only to discover that her property is coveted by a neighboring rancher.

Following the death of their parents, twenty-four-year-old Sunniva Lyndall and her younger brother, Tracy, leave the comforts and safety of their Ohio Valley home to travel west to California, With excitement, determination, and the money they received from the sale of the family farm, they head for Missouri and the wagon train that will take them west. But Sunny and her brother quickly learn the ways of the West the hard way when a con-man swindles...

Penny Sayres embarks on a dangerous journey out West with her brother, his wife, and their young daughter, but when tragedy strikes along the way, Penny is left with her young niece to raise as she questions what the future holds and if God is still able to hear her prayers.

Grieving over the death of his wife, an embittered Garret Steele finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of his young daughter's English pen pal, Lady Elizabeth Wellington, who is fleeing a forced betrothal to a brutal man.

Mary Emeline Malone comes to America to join the father of the child she's carrying, but must flee New York when she thinks she's killed a man. Mary escapes to Idaho, where men go to find their fortunes in the silver mines - and lose their pasts. But as Mary discovers, sometimes the past is not so easily shaken. It will take a good man's strong, persistent love to penetrate the young immigrant's defenses and disarm the secret that makes a hostage...

The fictional town of Hope discovers the importance of forgiveness, overcoming prejudice, and the dangers of keeping unhealthy family secrets.