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When her mother dies, Corrie Bell Hollister is left with four younger siblings to care for.

After a shocking discovery in Miracle Springs, Corrie's world is turned upside down.

Now that her siblings are provided for, Corrie convinces a newspaperman to take a chance on her as a journalist.

At almost twenty-one, Corrie has overcome the tragedies of her youth and made a name for herself as a journalist.

The dawning of 1860 brings rising tensions between the North and South that threaten to escalate into full-scale war.

The War Between the States has escalated into a full-scale conflict threatening to tear the nation apart.

Pursued as a Union spy inside Confederate territory, Corrie's desperate attempt to escape on horseback is cut short by the sound of gunfire and the excruciating pain in her back from a bullet.

The Civil War is finally over, and it has been more than two years since Corrie Belle Hollister left her home and family in Miracle Springs, California, to travel across the country at President Li