The spring of 1824 is a challenging one for the inhabitants of Paradise N.Y. when a flood devastates the village. But for Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner, it's also a time of reunion as their children return from far-off places, a childhood friendship evolves into a romance, and family secrets threaten heart and home.

Imprisoned in the French Antilles for endangering the Crown, Jennet Huntar awaits rescue by her kinsman, Luke Bonner, and together they set out to find their child, surrendered to a virtual stranger at the time of her imprisonment, taking on local custom and power brokers in their quest.

In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past—and in the life of the spirited Bonners—as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age...

"A delightful new western romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love. New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling...

The first volume about the Calder family. In this story Benteen Calder leaves Texas with a herd of cattle and his new bride, Lorna. Lorna had to adjust to the demanding work but happily Benteen discovered she was a passionate wife. Happiness came in raising two sons and building a new home, but then the past returned to haunt them, raising hidden jealousies and theatening their life together.

Volume four of the Calder saga. Ty was born a Calder, but bred a stranger to the mighty empire that was his legacy. He learned the ways of ranch life from young Jessy who knew the land like her own heart. But Ty worshipped Tara. Tara lured Ty on to be mistress of the Calder kingdom. Yet, when her world rushed in to plunder the fortune that lay beneath the prairie, it was Jessy who stood by his side, defying death to save his birthright.

For all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a...