Only halfway there! How could they manage that distance again, with the California mountains even more rugged than the Rockies? So far, Abby Windsor Talbot has enjoyed a life of wealth and privilege. But suddenly she finds herself orphaned, bankrupt, and dependent on the assistance of her Christain relatives who are moving west. Stunned by the turn of events, she must learn to cope with the physical and emotional strain of a wagon train journey in the company of a family whose faith she cannot understand, and a young man whose presence disturbs her. The Journey West is the first book in the exciting story of the Talbots, a Christian family determined to penetrate the west with the reality of God's love.

She had escaped a fate worse than death, but would her ship now make it around the Horn to the unsettled West?

Eternal Passage (California Pioneer Series, Book 3)

The exciting story of the Talbots, a Christian family determined to penetrate the west with the reality of God's love.

“As the Orphan Train draws closer to Missouri, Callie despairs. When the Reverend Matthew Hansel learns the truth, will he ever want to see her again?” From the moment her brother Langston turns up on her doorstep, Callie Murray’s life is one tangle of deception. Her only desire is to reunite her sisters and brothers and begin a new life with their Talbot relatives in California, far away from their shameful past. But Callie doesn’t like Langston’s plan for getting them there...and she hadn’t counted on falling in love with a handsome young minister on the way. PEACE LIKE A RIVER is the fifth book in the exciting story of the Talbots, a Christian family determined to penetrate the west with the reality of God’s love.

Kate Talbot finds her strong anti-slavery views cause her trouble at home in Missouri, but they do not seem to concern Charles McCourtney, the handsome son of a Mississippi plantation owner