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It is 1845, and Nauvoo is a bustling city of Latter-day Saints. But an exodus is on the horizon. Mobs riddle Nauvoo and threaten to burn the city if the Saints don’t leave. As the risk of mob violence increases, so does Lucy Parker’s fear for her daughters' welfare. When she experiences the death of a loved one, she must come to terms with Heavenly Father’s plan for his children and submit herself to His will. Lydia Leonard thought she lost everything when her husband Danny died. Forced to give up his farm, she meets Worthy Clark, a handsome land appraiser who has also experienced ...

The road to adulthood is as rocky as the trail heading west. Asenath Wilcox was only a baby when her family was expelled from Nauvoo by vicious mobs. Now she is sixteen, and her family has since established a prosperous farm in Iowa. But being the only Latter-day Saints for miles and miles, their isolation has come at a cost. Asenath is certain she will die a spinster, especially with an overprotective older brother who chases away any suitors. When the first shots of the Civil War are fired at Fort Sumter, Asenath’s father finally decides to sell his farm and join a company of Saints ...

Father had promised to return in the spring... In the wake of tragedy, Jane and her little sister find themselves abandoned to the mercy of strangers on the vast, unforgiving Iowan prairie. Their father, a carpenter, has traveled hundreds of miles away to build homes. However, his continuous delays and unfulfilled promises condemn his daughters to endure famine and neglect under the care of their trusted guardians. After Father's eventual return, with his promises still unkept, Jane marries a man against her father's wishes and forever alters the course of her life. But her indomitable ...

Ellie has been divorced once, and now her latest boyfriend has jilted her. She doesn’t like, or trust men any longer. Ellie has strange dreams about her dog Belle that has recently passed. She doesn’t understand the dreams, but as the dreams continue and progress, she begins to understand their meaning, and what the dreams are telling her.