Central Kansas Library System

Sarah Tanton had headed west seeking the promise of a fresh start, and freedom from the memories that haunted her. Yet, little did she know that every step brought her closer to the man she'd loved and lost. Though his testimony had landed her in prison, Daniel Harrison had never forgotten the woman who had taught him about love, and betrayal. But despite their past, Daniel found himself thinking about their future.

"Readers rabid for the sweet historical romances of Tracie Peterson and Tamara Alexander will flock to best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer's prairie-set heartwarmer of high society cast-off and the western town that welcomes her. Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal dealings, she finds herself forced into a role she never imagined:...

Tells what life was like on the frontier trail through a series of imagined letters written by Deborah Pieratt, a woman who traveled from Kentucky to Kansas in 1854, taking care of her family of six young children and protecting them from the perils of the road.

The novel tells the stories of two families who struggle to rebuild their lives and follow their dreams in Kansas after the Civil War.

Charlie Keller has trouble feeling at home after his abolitionist father, wanting to cast a vote for freedom, moves his family from Massachusetts to the Kansas Territory which is on the verge of deciding whether to enter the Union as a free or a slave state.

In the 1880s, thirteen-year-old Thomas moves west from the aristocratic Virginia home of his grandparents to a poor Kansas farm to live with a father he barely remembers and his new stepfamily.

Charlie Keller must prove that he can help his mother and sisters survive a Kansas blizzard while his father helps the free-soil settlers in Lawrence to defend their town from proslavery forces.

Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.