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"Traveling to San Francisco to enjoy a long overdue visit with her younger sister, Breanna Baylor is shocked to discover that post-traumatic stress disorder incurred during the Civil War has triggered a wave of violent behavior in her once-gentle brother-in-law, Jerrod Harper."--Cover.

When 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? Future events are wilder than any of them could imagine -- ranging from kidnappings and whippings to stowing away on wagon trains, from starting orphanages of their own to serving as missionaries to the...

For Chief U.S. Marshal John Brockman, becoming a friend to former outlaw Whip Langford is easy. With Brockman strongly encouraging him to accept salvation, Langford determines to go straight. He won't turn his life over to Christ, but he won't go back to a life of crime either.