"Orphaned Jim Burden rides the trains from Virginia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, where he will live with his paternal grandparents. Jake, a farmhand from Virginia, rides with the 10-year-old boy. On the same train, headed to the same destination, is the Shimerda family from Bohemia. Jim lives with his grandparents in the home they have built, helping as he can with chores to ease the burden on the others. The home has the dining room and kitchen downstairs,...

Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling potato farm, with a sister excluded from his will, and with a heart wounded by what she gave up on his behalf. Then cancer takes the life of her best friend, and Jules finds herself caring for two small children. How...

The secret they've kept can either bring them together or tear them apart. Youngest sibling and only sister, Kim Luchetti comes home to the Illinois family farm after her father's heart attack. Eight years ago she vowed never to come back, believing only distance would allow her to forget the tragedy that broke her heart. Returning means she must face everyone's questions, including those of her first love, Brian Riley, the only one who knows her...

"To keep her home...she must marry! When Elizabeth Morsely's beloved farm is sold to a genteel London family, she's stunned to learn that she's part and parcel...as a bride! This country girl believes she'll have nothing in common with her city groom, William Grant, except he's as reluctant to wed as she is. They agree to a platonic partnership, until Elizabeth glimpses the pure heart behind William's aristocratic demeanor. Might their arranged marriage...

"Trinidad in the 1940s, nearing the end of American occupation and British colonialism. On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognizable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building ... divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops--Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, all three born of the barracks....

"Her husband's suicide left Nora MacKenzie alone, and his shady Wall Street dealings left the Manhattan socialite penniless. By a miracle she's held on to their mountainside farm--and she'll keep holding on, no matter what. The property is Nora's one chance to wring some dignity out of the sham she's been living. The Vermont locals think she's a city girl on a nature kick, but she's not afraid to get her hands dirty. Nora's serious about learning...