Left destitute after her grandfather's death, Honor Penworthy must leave her Maryland plantation -- and the slaves she hoped to free -- to seek refuge with a distant relative. A marriage is arranged through the Quaker community to glass artisan Samuel Cathwell, who has not opened his heart to anyone since fever took his hearing as a child. A move west brings the promise of a fresh start, but nothing in Honor's genteel upbringing prepares her for the...

"When Quaker Rachel Woolsey nurses a former Civil war soldier back to health, he agrees to help her achieve her dream of having her own bakery and a homestead in Pepin, Wisconsin"--

Their Frontier Family: "No one is more surprised than Sunny Licht when Noah Whitmore proposes. She's an unwed mother--an outcast in her small Quaker community. But she can't resist the Union soldier's offer of a fresh start. Noah is determined that Sunny and her baby want for nothing...except the love that war burned out of him. Yet Sunny makes him hope once more for the family he never thought he'd find." -- Back cover. The Baby Bequest: "The moment...