Dropped from a wagon train for not pulling their load, Clara Fields is desperate to provide for her newly-widowed aunt. Dry-goods store owner Josiah Reed makes Clara a heaven-sent bargain: he'll sign over his two-story house if she can marry his son off to a local girl in the next month. Dr. Saul Reed is watching his father's store while Josiah is away, thinking the slow pace will be a welcome respite. Then he finds pretty Clara installed in his father's...

To escape the unwelcome advances of her stepfather, who is declared her guardian after mother's death, seventeen-year-old Joelle cuts her hair, poses as a young man, and joins a wagon train to gold-rich California.

Whisked away to America when her father is falsely accused of slave trading, Catherine Newbury disguises her identity and becomes a sought-after seamstress in Philadelphia, where she catches the eye of an architect who met her before she went into hiding.

Cassandra Stover can't believe her luck when she becomes the companion to Mrs. Jameston, a wealthy society woman. Not only can she help her widowed mother and sister, but Cassie genuinely comes to care for the elderly woman who treats her like family. Enter Mark Langford, an insurance investigator, and everything changes for her. When Mark reveals that he is investigating Sebastian Jameston, the son of Cassandra's employer, she agrees to pretend they...