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?

When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Their stepdaughter becomes enthralled with an Irish railroad worker and James must stop a destructive plan among the workers.

Brenton Baldwin escorts Caitlan O'Connor to California to find her brother Kiernan who is working for the Central Pacific Railroad.

When it comes to quilting, Maggie Newcomb is all thumbs. And nobody rubs it in more than Emma Jean Stoddard. But Maggie swallows her ire for one simple reason--she has a crush on Emma Jean's handsome son, Colby, and doesn't want to ruin her chances. So she works hard to become the best quilter in Maintown. Her plan seems to be working--that is, until Tamara Brennan comes to town. Tamara is wealthy and poised as well as beautiful, and immediately turns...

She learned too late--on her wedding night--that she had escaped nothing... Deborah Graham's escape from the ravages of the Civil War to the plains of Texas holds more than the promise of a new beginning. She is marrying a handsome young man who will inherit wealth and influence from his cattle-baron father. But the reverberations of a murderer's bullet echo far own the corridors of her life and change everything for Deborah. From the plains of Texas...

Eighteen years after his daughter's birth, Count Dmitri Remizov returns to Russia from exile to find his only child. But Mariana, who was raised as a peasant, is hesitant to take her place in Imperial Russia. Meanwhile, Sergei and Anna must decide whether to risk emerging from hiding. Will they find a way to reunite their families and claim their heritage?

As Russia plunges from World War I into revolution, the tragic events of Bloody Sunday leave their stain upon the nation—and the Fedorcenko family. After a devastating loss, the Fedorcenkos struggle with their grief and find their loyalties in the conflict divided. Will their bond be strong enough to endure the trials of civil war?

The three daughters of newspaper tycoon Keagan Hayes travel to Russia in order to locate the half-brother, Semyon, and face dangerous and devastating consequences.

Returning to her beloved Russia, now under Hitler's threatening shadow, Cameron Hayes tries to distance herself from her father and establish herself as a journalist, and soon meets American expatriate, Dr. Alex Rostov.

The soldiers have returned, but the turmoil grows for the nation.