A brand new Western adventure from Cherokee Parks! In the early spring of 1883, Civil War widow and mother of five surviving children, Madeleine Emeline “Maude” Click Barnes, received a distressing letter from her oldest daughter. Aura Lea and her husband, Bill Porter, had moved to from Tennessee to Texas years before and were now in trouble, needing help desperately. With only a moment’s hesitation, Maude made the decision that she was going to get there as fast as she could. After hearing Aura Lea’s letter, the entire family agreed to go and set about making that happen. Selling everything they owned but for what they could load on their two wagons, along with some livestock in addition to those needed to pull their wagons and Maude’s surrey, they made the arrangements to get underway. After a surprise encounter with a neighbor also in trouble, they agreed to allow the troubled family to travel with them. By utilizing the growing number of rails expanding across the West, Maude and family arrived intact at Aura Lea’s in just over two weeks, in spite of running into more than one bit of trouble along the way. After swearing she would remain single all the rest of her days, she finds herself in love in Texas with a man from her past whom she once barely knew. This is the story of a strong-willed and strong-minded woman and her family, all bent on always doing the right thing. This is Maude’s story. Grab your copy today!