She has spent her whole life needing no one. Then she crosses a continent to find the one man who might change that.

Adelaide Prentiss has built a good life for herself in Chillicothe, Ohio. At thirty-two, she owns a successful millinery, supports herself comfortably, and has learned never to settle for a man simply because the town thinks she...

She came two thousand miles to prove a tree could survive the mountain. She never expected the harder thing to be opening her own heart.

Frances Tarrant has spent nine years creating something no one else knows is hers.

Working quietly at the back bench of her family’s New York nursery, she has bred a remarkable winter-keeping apple—one she...

She crossed two thousand miles to find a husband. She never expected the hardest part would be learning how to be truly known.

Theodora Bly has spent six years making a life out of keeping herself hidden.

In a Quincy, Illinois, printing office, she is the woman behind the type cases—and the anonymous voice behind the newspaper column everyone...