Preacher's daughter Amy Randolph finds her beliefs and values challenged when her father moves them from the comfort and familiarity of their home in the East, to a Colorado mining town in the midst of the Gold Rush.

Jenny, living in the frontier districts of New York and Ohio in the early 1800's, is a bright and unusually inquisitive young girl. Though living in poverty with limited schooling and spiritual guidance, and tough viciously mistreated by a drunken father, quick-minded Jenny becomes an avid reader. Her father's forbidden book holds an overwhelming fascination for her. Will she find the truth, or is she on a dangerous road with no end in sight? Here...

Seared into Rebecca's memory were her mother's final words, "The trunk, guard it carefully. There is in it your only hope." Orphaned while still a young girl, Rebecca's only tangible heritage was a trunk which contained a wedding dress and a small black book. Concluding that her only hope was associated with the dress and the future marriage it symbolized, her life became a search for the one man who would make her dream come true. A trip west in...

North meets South with a mighty clash of wills, each side clinging stubornly to political ideals destined to separate families, ruin fortunes, and touch off a war that would devastate an entire nation. Some men and women, driven by principle, joined together, risking everything in order to protect a race of people that were considered to be less than human--a race that could be bought and sold as slaves, subject to the whims and abuses of their masters....

Sequel to: The wishing star. Jenny's search for truth and for control of her destiny continues into her marriage to lawyer Mark Cartwright. Her happiness and security with Mark are often overshadowed by dark thoughts and frightening memories.