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Set in the 1885 Amana colony of Homestead, Iowa, this tale finds 22-year-old Gretchen Kohler trying to tend her father's general store while watching over her young brother and senile Oma. But her secret passion for writing soon jeopardizes her reputation and the love of her childhood beau.

Presents the first part of the author's Mysteries of Winterthurn.

Born in 1844 in upstate New York as the child of ardent abolitionists, Liberty Fish finds his life influenced also by his grandparents, Carolina slaveholders, a conflict that he struggles to resolve by enlisting during the Civil War.

Doc Swift -- half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer -- seeks the supernatural creature who guards the treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had reportedly encountered the beast deep in the lands of Comancheria.

During the Great Depression, three lost souls meet one another at Boulder Dam, a massive engineering project in the midst of the Nevada desert. The story begins with Filius Poe, an engineer coping with a grave personal loss. Lew Beck is an angry man who hhas lived a rough life and is ready to explode. Lena McCardell is travelling with her young son, and is hoping for a better future for the two of them. Each is drawn to the dam for different reasons, but they have all been haunted by tragedy.

His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day.

Doctor Marie Levant can't explain why she's drawn to New Orleans, why it's comforting and unsettling at the same time. And she can't shake her haunting dreams. But when she delivers a dead woman's baby, Marie knows malevolent forces are at work--and it's up to her to stop them.

July 1100 and Jerusalem has fallen to the Crusader armies. Amid the ensuing chaos a priceless holy relic is entrusted to English knight Geoffrey Mappestone. But the relic is said to be cursed, bringing death and destruction to whoever posesses it. And down the ages the relic continues to wreak its havoc.

Panther Burn, exiled from his Northern Cheyenne tribe, senses war on the horizon as he sadly watches his Suothern Cheyenne brothers abandon their anscestral customs and become slaves to the culture of the white men. Jubal Bragg, haunted by an Indian ambush, leads a vicious band of frontier militia men. When a sequence of malevolent events brings these two men face to face, they engage in a tragic struggle over the lands of the western frontier.

The eminent Sir Lockwood Hamilton, a Member of Parlaiment, is murdered and his body is found on Westminster Bridge. Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte are just beginning to investigate when yet another member of Parlaiment is murdered and discovered on the same bridge. The Pitts find one connection between the men--they both voted against female suffrage. Before another politician is killed, the Pitts must find the murderer among an assortment of angry suffragates, anarchists, and scoundrels.