ESCAPE A spinster on the run from a trumped-up robbery charge finds a position as a Placer Agent on The Orphan Train leaving New York for Cincinnati. DANGER The Pinkerton Agent assigned to protect the train falls in love with her, discovers her disguise, and must bring her to justice. LOVE Will her skeptical, hurting heart accept his love? Will she truly escape her past? Will the orphans under her care find loving homes at the end of the line?

Charlene Trumbel is a wealthy, 29 year old, spinster daughter of a wealthy New York family. However, she is appalled at the wasteful lifestyle her family lives. When given a chance to ride on the Orphan Train to get firsthand experience to write an article to induce wealthy families to support the Orphan Train, Charlene jumps at it. However, her poor eyesight, which has caused her to remain a lonely wallflower her whole life, almost stops her from the trip. That is until she meets a young city boy who agrees to come along with her and be her eyes. Along the way, Charlene learns the ins and outs, ups and downs of what it means for the children to be sent west on the orphan train. Bronson Jacobs, owner of a Kansas brick company is on his way home when he first meets Charlene on the train. He is instantly attracted to her and interested in the concept of the Orphan Train, but he can’t understand why she doesn’t get some spectacles to help her see better. Bronson offers to tag along and watch the proceedings as the children on the Orphan Train are placed with families in several Kansas towns. When Bronson takes it into his own hands to force Charlene to get a pair of spectacles, will she see his act as one of love?

He wants independence. She longs for safety. Will an orphan girl bring them together? Beginning a new life, Shanna Becket, secures employment at the Children’s Society Agency. Her first assignment brings her dangerously close to her abusive stepfather. What she didn’t count on is the distraction of a handsome stranger who sends her heart fluttering. A second son who is second-best, Aidan hopes that his latest venture is his ticket to independence from his overbearing father. His travels bring him in contact with the lovely working-class, red-headed Shanna she steals his heart. His father won’t approve. When a sick orphan brings them together, Shanna is forced to place her well-being in Aidan’s hands. Finally, a possibility of love for this spinster. But can she trust he is the man he says he is? If you like heroines who take risks, spinsters, and orphan train stories then you'll love From a Distance, Diana Lesire Brandmeyer's powerful novella. Journey back in time with this love story today!

Head over Heals is the story of Gideon Hill and Anna Butler. Gideon is the town doctor in Douglas Center where Anna is escorting a group of orphan train children. Anna has never traveled by train before and is taken with motion sickness shortly after her journey begins. One little girl, Maggie O'Brian sticks to Anna and refuses to let her go. Even after the good doctor heals Anna's sickness and adopts Maggie the child still wants Anna as part of her new family. I hope you will all enjoy their story as they learn to love and trust, all for the sake of a little girl with big dreams of having her perfect family.

Thrown out on the streets of New York City, and doubting God’s existence, Anna Wilson accepts a job at the Children’s Aid Society. As an agent for the Society, she travels the west on trains full of orphans in search of families and homes. Because of Anna's personal heartache and loss, she devotes herself to placing the children in only the very best families. After an embarrassing introduction to Texas cattle rancher, Joshua Brown, a widower, Anna makes a surprise visit to his ranch. Their encounter throws them into a series of events which neither one was ready for. Can their mutual attraction overcome the differences and past heartbreaks as they fight to save the children in their care? One man bent on revenge could destroy it all. To live out their destiny they must find strength together. Will they?

Unable to have children, spinster, Clementine Crowell, has immersed herself in the noble calling of placing street orphans in happy homes. After ten years riding the rails as an agent for the Gotham Foundling Asylum Society, Clementine is disheartened by evidence that many of the children she’s helped place are little more than slave labor. On a stopover in Nebraska, she’s pushed over the edge when farmers, Rollie Everhart and Boyd Hammond, get into a fistfight over who will get the older, stronger boy. Rollie came for an orphan boy to help him work his beleaguered farm. He needs help, not only in caring for his four-year-old daughter, but in caring about the life God has handed him. He’s lost his wife, his dreams, and his heart for working his farm. The tall, stern Miss Crowell had no business wading into the fight and getting injured in the process. Now he has two choices: adopt the skinny twins looking for a home, or anger the already angry and injured Clementine Crowell. Her arm may be broken, but her tongue still works and she’s blaming him for everything from Adam’s first bite, to the punch that knocked her down. Derailed by her injuries, Clementine needs a family, and Rollie has more family than he can handle. Both will fight to get what they want, but who will win in this battle of wills? Lonesome Whistle will make you laugh and make you cry, and keep you turning pages for the most deserved happily-ever-after ending of the century, the 19th Century, that is!

Shane would rather pay others to care for his younger orphaned sisters. But when their latest home is burned to the ground and the woman caring for them dies, Shane decides it's time to go home. On the way, he collects not only his two sisters but another child, a young woman beaten and left for dead, a runaway slave. . .and the promise of more! Lydia allows herself to be taken to the refuge of Shane's home, but can Lydia trust this gambling man to help her when it seems he's deserted his own family in the past?

“Watch out, dear.” Anna Morris was quick to pull the young girl back from the loud crunch of the passing pickup rounding the corner. “Where are your parents? You aren’t alone on this busy street, are you?” She stooped down eye level with the young miss. “Mama left and don’t know where she is…but she always comes back, she does.” A single tear made its way down the girl’s cheek. “I guess today she forgot, so I started to look for her and lost myself.” What will Anna and young Grace find when they return to locate her mother at Misery Row? What awaits her and can she adapt to a new life? Follow Grace and Anna as life changing plans and decisions are made. Will she leave New York or continue to roam the streets she has always known?