christian fiction

Glory, the youngest of the eight Boughton children, returns to Gilead, Iowa, in 1957 to care for her dying father, Robert, a former Presbyterian pastor, and the two are soon joined by Jack, the prodigal son of the family who left town twenty years earlier in the midst of scandal, and together they edge toward understanding, forgiveness, and healing.

Elizabeth, sixteen-year-old granddaughter of German immigrants, is torn between two indentured servants from Germany, mischievous Hannes, who is teaching her to read, and serious, kind Milo.

Twelve-year-old Jeremiah "Jem" Coulter knows that Goldtown, California, has seen the last of the gold rush. But the flecks of gold he and an old prospector, "Strike," find in their played-out claim on Cripple Creek spur Jem's hope of striking it rich.

Twelve-year-old Jeremiah "Jem" Coulter is caught in the middle of a riot when the Midas mine runs out of gold and the owner decides to reclaim an abandoned mine that is now being worked by Chinese miners.