Judith Pella

In 1835 James Baldwin arrives to serve as Carolina's teacher, but of more importance, he is to court Carolina's beautiful older sister, Virginia. Will expectations--and Virginia's southern charm--elicit the hoped-for proposal? Or will James and Carolina dare to acknowledge the mutual interests and feelings growing between them?

Jordana Baldwin had come to California by stagecoach to help her sister Victoria, but after three years she has grown restless and feels the need to do something different. When her writing catches the attention of an eastern newspaper, she takes on the guise of a man to report on the progress of the Transcontinental Railroad and to spy for the Central Pacific.

In World War II Yugoslavia, Egypt, and the Soviet Union, Cameron Hayes is an intrepid woman reporter striving to prove herself in a man's world. Reluctantly, Cameron teams with Johnny Shanahan, her father's ace correspondent though not on the approved suitor's list, and together they nail their stories even as the Nazis advance. Aspiring actress Blair and sincere Christian Jackie, Cameron's sisters, also have their plotlines, though presumably their...

Taken to the frontier of Texas with her young daughter, Angela's fledgling faith becomes an inspiration to a struggling pastor.

In the wake od Pearl Harbor, three sisters struggle to keep their family together even as the tentacles of war reach into their homeland.

Carolina Adams has an intense interest in the new technology of railroads. When her father hires a new tutor, James Baldwin, who shares the same interests, Carolina and James begin to have unexpected feelings for each other.

Carolina and James Baldwin's wedding had been the happiest day of their lives, but now family problems and the ever-increasing demands of the B&O Railroad are combining to challenge the newlyweds' continued happiness. When James' father desperately needs their help, Carolina struggles to forgive her father-in-law for past wrongs, driving a deep emotional wedge between the young couple.

"With the loss of her first true love, Carolina Adams finds life at the family plantation nearly unbearable. Desperate to escape, she moves to Baltimore to become a nanny to Victoria, a little girl whose mother has died. After breaking his wedding engagement with Virginia Adams, Carolina's older sister, James Baldwin immerses himself in work for the B&O Railroad, the other passion in his life besides Carolina. But when a shocking business proposal...

Sequel to: Frontier lady.

In 1917, amid the turmoil in Russia, Anna Fedorcenko's sons face the consequences of their personal and political choices. Unless they are able to cast off the blinders of the past, they too may be caught in the chaos sweeping throughout the Motherland.