The Journeyman by award-winning author Elizabeth Yates is historical fiction set in New Hampshire in the early 1800s. Jared Austin arrives in New England with the skills of an itinerant painter, and he hopes to brighten the drab farmhouse walls with his colors. But the year has been a fruitless one for farmers, and they are searching for someone to blame. Jared becomes their scapegoat as superstitions abound. Jared endures the cold and frost of this endless winter and determines to refute the lies as he exercises his quiet faith in God. Prequel to Hue & Cry.

Hue and Cry by award-winning author Elizabeth Yates takes place in the 1830s in New Hampshire. Melody Austin can neither hear nor speak, but she takes great pleasure in the beauty she finds while exploring the woods near her parents farm. One day she discovers that a young Irish boy is hiding nearby, and although she cannot talk to him, she befriends him, covertly taking him food and provisions for his horse. When she realizes that the thief her father seeks to bring to justice is Danny, she must face the question of what to do about him and the horse he has stolen. Sequel to The Journeyman.