Judy Sharer
Book One: Settler’s Life
Book Two: Second Chance Life
Book Three: Civil War Life
Book Four: Love-Challenged Life
A Plains Life – Historical Family Saga Romance Series
Published by The Wild Rose Press
Available in paperback, eBook and audio book!
Book One: Settler’s Life
Sarah Clark’s family endured the hardships of a wagon train journey from Pennsylvania to pursue a dream of land ownership in Kansas. Now the family of four scratches out a hardscrabble life on the windswept plains. Happily anticipating a long-awaited birth; the child does not survive. A stagecoach robbery and shoot-out take the life of Sarah’s husband, forcing her to make life-altering decisions.
To keep a promise to his best friend as he lay dying, Mark Hewett is forced to lie to Sarah whom he has grown to love. Can he keep his word and save the family who now relies solely on him? His necessary deception holds the potential for disaster as the family struggles to survive.
Will personal loss, heartache, pain, and prevarication lead to destruction? What will happen: survival or defeat; loyalty or deception?
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Book Two: Second Chance Life
After a previous miscarriage, Sarah Hewitt prays for a healthy baby with her new husband Mark, whom she loves and cherishes.
Despite past secrets and half-truths Sarah and Mark have a second chance at life as they struggle to turn their dreams into reality. Then unforeseen circumstances threaten their family dynamics and jeopardize their chances for unconditional love.
Can Mark hold true to his word to protect a promise to his best friend Samuel, Sarah’s first husband, or will the truth about his lies be revealed?
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Book Three: Civil War Life
During the perilous years of the Civil War, life-altering events challenge the Hewitt family living in conflict-weary Kansas. Throughout the war runaway slaves appearing at the farm put the family at constant risk from lawless bounty hunters. The young couple Billy and Elizabeth wonder if the time is right to marry and start a family. Billy and Mark face almost certainty that they will be called upon to fight, leaving behind everything they worked so hard to establish.
As the present looms menacingly over the Hewitt family, the future that held so much promise is now filled with fear and uncertainty. Will courage and love be enough to see them through? Only time will tell.
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Book Four: Love-Challenged Life Life
In the midst of change and shifting attitudes after the Civil War, heightened drama still abounds in the town of Dead Flats. Billy Henry had been married to a town girl, and she broke his heart. Does he now stand a chance to remarry, keep his wife at home, have children, and manage a farm to provide a good life for his family?
Lydia Clark longs to use her sewing skills to start a business of her own. Now she’s in love. She must choose to follow her heart or pursue her yearning for independence.
Focused on the lives ahead of them, will Billy and Lydia escape the ghosts of the past and the weight of family secrets that threaten their future?
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