This Book is also available in the 'Out of the Shadows Complete Box Set' which also includes 6 extra bonus books. When her parents died of cholera Tamara Payton and her sister end up in an orphanage. For seven hard years she labors in the orphanage, cared for by a kind negro woman who protects her from the harshness of the senior warden. The day Tamara overhears the warden all but selling she and her sister to someone as servants is the day she decides to flee to Sonora, Texas. There she becomes housekeeper for a wealthy ranch owner, Gabriel Hunter, who throws convention to the wind when he discovers that there is much more to this dark young beauty than first meets the eye. Out of the Shadows and Into The Light is a series of stories that follow the emotional journeys of four courageous ladies who refuse to be broken, and find God’s best plan for their future.