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Maureen O'Reilly and her younger sister flee Ireland in hope of claiming the life promised to their father twenty years before. After surviving Ellis Island, Maureen learns that their benefactor, Colonel Wakefield, has died, and his family refuses to own his Civil War debt. Alone, impoverished, and in danger of deportation, Maureen contrives to obtain employment in a prominent department store. But she soon discovers that the elegant façade hides...
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New York City, 1881. For years, Miss Felicia Murdock's every thought and action has been in pursuit of becoming a minister's wife. When the minister she'd set her sights on has other ideas, she decides something in her life needs to change -- and soon -- before she wastes any more time pretending to be someone she's not. If that means spreading her wings and embracing a more lively way of life, who's to say nay? Grayson Sumner, Lord Sefton, has had...
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Miss Arabella Beckett has one driving passion: to help the downtrodden women of America. Naturally, she supports the women's suffrage movement and eagerly attends rallies and lectures across the country. On her travels, she makes a simple offer of assistance to a young woman in need that goes sadly awry and lands both ladies in more trouble than they can manage. An independent sort, Arabella is loath to admit she needs help and certainly doesn't need...
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When 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? Future events are wilder than any of them could imagine -- ranging from kidnappings and whippings to stowing away on wagon trains, from starting orphanages of their own to serving as missionaries to the...