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Mathew Jenkins feels isolated on his remote, rural ranch. Though he longs for a family, women in mining country are scarcer than gold nuggets. So he’s delighted by the dapper response to his mail-order bride ad from a comely Virginian lady. Jenny Phillips’ good name was ruined by her father’s stupidity. Forced into hiding with her ma, she’s desperate to put her pa’s stained reputation behind. But when her domineering uncle tries to sell her to the highest bidder, she flees by answering a lonely Montana man’s classified....

Samuel Fox is shocked to find two small girls alone on the trail. After discovering that the wagon train had abandoned them, and their parents had died in their wagon, he takes them home to his childless wife. Together, they decide to adopt and raise the two girls Spring and Autumn, along with Brenden, the boy they took in several years previously.

Jackboy was born into slavery on a Barbados sugar plantation. His constant attempts to escape finally pushed the masters too far. They punished the whole family by splitting them up and selling them off. His father’s last words had been, “It’s okay, son, don’t never give up.” Several years later, wracked by guilt, but still obsessed with freedom, he slips away from a South Carolina tobacco plantation and outsmarts the Confederacy’s most vicious slave patrol captain who is hot on his trail.

Gregor und Foster, Erben des in Ungnade gefallenen Hauses Ashmen fristen ein trostloses Leben: Sie verdingen sich als Söldner, um ihren Lebensunterhalt zu verdienen. Im Königreich gibt es für Männer wie sie immer etwas zu tun, doch für mehr als das bloße Überleben reicht es kaum.