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Charley Smith is up to something...

Henry Schaefer is sick of standing in his brothers' shadows. That's why he tried to enlist just as soon as Lincoln put out the call. Now that he's finally mustering in at Fort Snelling in the last company of the Second Minnesota Regiment, he's eager to prove himself and catch up with his brothers on the front lines. He may be green, but at least he's not as green as the snot-nosed Charles Smith,

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Confederate officer Bill Stamford and his bride Franny try to make a life for themselves in the turbulent streets and neighborhoods of wartime Richmond. They must contend with unscrupulous profiteers and desperate wives and widows willing to riot to get food for their little ones. For Bill, he must endure separation from Franny as he leaves on a hazardous special mission that could make her a widow.

Josephine has come west in search of the son she hasn't seen in far too many years. Once she arrives in Montana, she is thrilled to find that her son is about to be married. Once her grandchild is born, she agrees to take over the duties of teaching the children of the reservation in exchange for being able to stay close to her son.George Roberts came to Montana to judge not only Crooked Snake, but also the Indian Agent, Simon Leary. He never expected...

Aspiring artist Delaney Harper sails to New Orleans after her mother's death. On the night of her arrival, she's welcomed by a masked stranger who steals one breathless kiss. Alderic Beaumont is a fallen aristocrat. Once a corsair and now a smuggler, he's a force to be reckoned with. On the night of his friend's celebration, he's captured by an irresistible beauty. He kisses her, promising to find her come morning. By then, Delaney's world has crumbled-the...

Wind Dancer has loved Crooked Snake for many years, but knows better than to tell him of that love. It is not her place and he has war, not love on his mind. When he tells her that he wants her in his life, she is thrilled, but learning he has turned himself in to the white soldiers, she knows all is lost.Crooked Snake's trip south brings more than peace to his heart when he is reunited with the daughter he thought was killed fifteen years earlier....

Award-winning, multi-published author Cheryl Bolen turns her attention away from the British Isles to craft three achingly romantic tales set in nineteenth-century America.THE FOUR-LEAF CLOVERA Novella (23,000)Originally published in mass market paperback in 2004 (Fourth of July Picnic anthology)Norman Sterling, the wealthy mayor of Peace, Missouri, shocks himself at his town's Fourth of July picnic by proposing to the beautiful Mildred Gresham, a...

Jeremy Hamilton makes Albemarle a showcase of free labor in a hot bed of slavery and rebellion. Driven into a marriage of convenience and confrontations with neighbors, he asserts his belief that slavery should die. Gabby Hamilton is obsessed to prove Jeremy is not her half-brother and make him admit his love for her. Nothing deters her, not his wife, public opinion, deaths of loved ones, or war itself.

Alone and forlorn she realizes the love she dreamed of was there all along in the man she married, but did she realize too late?Orphaned at the tender age of eight years, Elizabeth is raised as a ward in the loveless home of her uncle. Stuck on the desire for freedom from oppression and unfamiliar with the concept of love, she flees from her husband of an arranged marriage with the assistance of an old family friend. Sadly this friend was no match...

The War Between the States changed a young Southern gentleman's life forever. He lost his love, he gave up his home, and he changed his name. Though his family searched for him with little success, the unknown family past of Andrew Hamilton caught up with Hamilton Anderson just when he'd started to live and love again. Can family secrets rip wounds in the sons as they did in the fathers? Can a second generation make peace with the twisted sins of...

Determined to keep a vow made to her dying father, independent eighteen-year-old Rebecca Pierce sets out on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail in 1845 with her mother. Rebecca is strong and takes on a leadership role. Zachary Miller is traveling alone with nothing more than what he can carry and his horse. He is assigned to help Rebecca and her mother from the first day on the trail. Zachary falls fast for Rebecca but she is conflicted about her growing...