Following the death of her husband in New Orleans, Julianna and her infant daughter head west to start a new life in Idaho, but are kidnapped at gunpoint by a drifter.

Emily refuses to believe that her only child has died of pneumonia. She mistakes Hannah's daughter for hers and sneaks her home without anyone seeing. Hannah just wishes to have Patty back home for Christmas.

Newly widowed, life begins anew at for Hannah at Fort Bridger. Then a sudden act of Malice destroys the Cooper family's main hope of survival.

Volume 1.

Nottinghamshire, 1785. Julia Cummings has long been acquainted with loss--her mother, her brother, her sister, her friend, all gone too soon. But the loss that pushed her grief to the limit as a young girl was that of her best friend, Lucas Jonquil, who abandoned her without looking back. Now, eight years later, Lucas has returned to Lampton Park, and Julia has steeled herself--she will never forgive the man who broke her heart. After losing too many...

"Before leaving on a two-month summer vacation, Jake Evans finds a gift from his deceased grandfather that will lead him on a scavenger hunt through ten of America's most rugged, wild, and beautiful national parks."--Page 4 of cover. After camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, Jake and his friends travel to the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado. Exploring the heart of the dunes, they stumble upon something both unexpected and dangerous. Through...

Jake, Amber, and Wes encounter new dangers and find their friendship tested as they follow the clues Jake's grandfather hid away in the old scrapbook. The stakes are higher, and the history goes deeper as the three kids put their heads together to solve a puzzle that is perhaps hundreds of years in the making.--Publisher description.