Martha Finley

During her tenth summer, Elsie is reunited with old friends, travels throughout New England, and introduces her father to the woman who will become her new mother.

As Elsie and Edward experience the joys of parenthood, the Civil War begins and ends, with terrible losses to their families.

In the 1840's, eight-year-old heiress Elsie Dinsmore has only her Christian faith and the hope of love from the father she has never met to sustain her while living on a southern plantation with relatives who care little for her and disapprove of her strong religious principles.

Elsie marries her beloved Edward and they experience the joys and heartaches of parenthood.

Fifteen-year-old Violet Travilla is determined to live the Christian life by braving doubts, dangers, and fear in order to help the poor.

Fifteen-year-old Violet Travilla visits New York City in 1881 and learns how to be responsible for others.

Twenty-two-year-old Millie Landreth, a missionary in Bolivia in 1843, finds her faith shaken when a local witch woman calls upon the power of her false god to curse Millie's husband, Charles.

After being banished from her uncle's Southern plantation, teenager Millie Keith encounters both mysterious travelers and moral dilemmas to her Christian way of life, as she journeys back home to Indiana.