The Homestead Author:Nancy A. Hermann Determined to carry on the family dream after the tragic loss of their parents, eighteen-year-old Olivia Sands and her brother Aaron journey across the Great Plains, braving the dangers of the elements and the Indians to stake their claim in a new land. Her Kansas homestead will see Olivia through years of hardship and loneliness, love and loss... more », and a nation rocked by the Civil War.
Four men will shape her life: Aaron, her brother, to whom her destiny is irrevocably joined...Dr. Francis Burton, her husband, whose integrity will lead him to war-and away from her forever...Luke Coyle, the cattleman who will open her heart to desire...and David Ellison, the charming country gentleman she will lose to another.
But, like the sod hut she builds with her hands and her heart, Olivia Sands will endure-a true woman of the west.« less