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As the power begins to be restored after years of darkness, the Brannings realize how much they've grown and changed, and they have to decide whether they'll go back to the way they were--lazy, spoiled, self-indulgent, selfish, or--or if they'll be better even when life is easier.

As the Kane legacy trilogy soars to a stunning conclusion, the Kane family find their faith and courage gravely tested when they are caught in the midst of the Mexican-American War.

Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick shows how langscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman's desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life.

As John Baxter makes plans to marry Elaine, one of the Baxters enters into the most trying season of all.

"A volatile feud. Opal Speck knows good and well that the longstanding feud between her family and the Grogans makes for volatile relations. So when Adam Grogan--the man who saved her life two years ago--comes chasing after a stray cow on Speck property, there's no way her family will forgive him for tresspassin'. A desperate declaration. Determined to keep bloodshed at bay, Opal blurts out the one declaration she knows will stop them in their tracks:...

Without the means to support herself after her father dies, Carrington Brouwer is given the opportunity to use her artistic talent at her friend's father's carousel factory. But the men at the factory are not happy that a woman has been given the desirable job of painting the elaborately carved horses. When mishaps occur at the factory, and jewelry disappears from the owner's home, accusations swirl. Is the handsome young factory manager truly Carrie's...

Newly widowed Lydia Sellers, longing to put the memories of a painful marriage behind her, determines to travel to Alaska to join her aunt. Lydia's arrival in Sitka, however, brings things she didn't expect: the acquaintance of Kjell Bjorklund, the handsome owner of the sawmill; and the discovery that she is pregnant with her dead husband's child. What will this mean for her budding relationship with Kjell? And what lengths will her stepchildren go...

The late 1500s and early 1600s may have been a time of elegant romance, artistic evolution, and one of the richest cultural landscapes ever, but in Italy, life, love, and even survival are anything but simple. Amidst class struggles, plague, duels, revolts and tyranny, the lives of four families intertwine... Anabella and Albret suffer their own pride and honor as good intentions and misunderstandings hinge the fate of their love on a duel...