His occasional letters were always cause for celebration. “Good news, I hope,” Kinley said as they all gathered on the porch. “Very good,” Alina confirmed…

Cruel, merciless, unforgivable. Some men out on the Kansas frontier believed a daughter was no more than livestock. Something to control, something to trade, to…
Clara stayed near the porch rail, heart pounding in her chest. After a moment, Elias called out calmly, “If you’re in here, now’s a good…

Dear friend, pull up a chair and settle in close. What I’m about to tell you happened in the summer of 1887 in a dusty…
It was the kind of room Maggie had only seen when delivering laundry to wealthy homes. The kind of space she’d never imagined occupying herself.…
Carson settled the question by knocking on her door at 8 in the morning, dressed in clothes she hadn’t seen him wear before. A clean…
Trying to drag a woman into a life she doesn’t want because your plans fell through. That’s not love, Brennan. That’s convenience. and what you’ve…
Learned that being married to Carson meant sharing not just a bed but a life with all the small irritations and large joys that entailed.…
The first frost turned the grass silver in the mornings, and the sky took on that particular high Kansas blue that was almost painful to…
On the fourth evening, the last evening of the storm, Rose was sitting at the kitchen table, mending a shirt of his that had given…

