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Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave home in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless. Mark Gibson runs away there when his wife dies and soon employs Keara in his inn. But Theo Mullane is looking for Keara, the woman he loves.

In the early 1900s, the advent of coal and the resulting industrialization of the isolated Cumberland Mountain region of Kentucky and Virginia bring many changes to the feuding Tolliver and Fallin clans. Engineer Jack Hale comes to the region to make his fortune, but stays when he falls in love with the mountains and with a simple mountain girl.

Originally published as : Young lady with red hair.

Both historical novel and family saga and set in 19th-century Chile, this story concerns Aurora del Valle's search for the mystery of her past, a trauma so brutal that it erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life.

Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems to hate her so much he would happily offer money to any man who would wed her.

An eccentric young woman's love for a wild white stallion tempts her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to her affair with the charismatic Louis XIV.

World War I ended well for the Franklins, prosperous Clydeside shipbuilders. But trouble is brewing behind their respectable facade. As the slump of the 1920's begins to bite on Clydeside, troubles both financial and personal invade all their lives.

Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick. After years of struggling to make a living in Blisden, Annie knows she deserves to enjoy her life. But worries are imminent.

This 1991 novel is volume two in the author's series, "The Work and the Glory," and continues the saga of the Steed family during the early years of LDS Church history, 1830-1836. As the infant Church expands and spreads westward into Ohio and Missouri, the Steeds are swept up in the unfolding drama.