Frontier life has been hard for Jerusalem Ann Hardin, who has already buried her husband and two of her sons. Now she can only pray as she watches her brother and son march off to join Samuel Houston to defend their beloved Texas from Santa Anna. But Jerusalem's not easily kept down, so the feisty widow gathers up her family and follows her heart to a cattle ranch in Western Texas in search of a better life.Jerusalem has barely settled in when Kern,...

Though tragedy has wrecked her life, Allie Siders holds on to the hope that her five-year-old daughter, Betsy, will speak again. But with a stalker out for revenge, she heads for the peaceful Bluebird Ranch in Texas hill country and the only person who can help them. A sanctuary for abused horses and troubled youth, the ranch is the perfect place for Betsy. Owner Elijah DeAngelo welcomes them. But foreman Rick Bailey hasn't decided to let his guard...

"Colleen is a master storyteller." —Karen Kingsbury, New York Times bestselling author

For most, it's the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it's the last place she wants to be . . . and the one place she must return.

With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she's wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to West Texas, to the town she ran away from so

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