Genre: LDS Historical

Winds of Change by Jean Holbrook Mathews

Winds of Change by Jean Holbrook Mathews

The year is 1854, and change is in the air throughout India. Within the walls of her grand home in Calcutta, Sarah McCune anxiously awaits the future. After eighteen months at war, her husband, a sergeant in the Bengal Army of the East India Company, has made an extraordinary proposal: leave all the comforts of their life in Asia for an unknown future in America. […]

May 5, 2017 / 0 Comments
Trapped in East Germany by Carolyn Twede Frank

Trapped in East Germany by Carolyn Twede Frank

When the discussion to escape finally came up, Karin was ready. It is the autumn of 1943, and Karin Graeber is keenly aware of the uneasy tide of change swirling around her. She is not alone—in wartime Berlin, it seems that everyone has been swept up in the frightening transformation of their city. No more than a child, Karin is far too young to understand […]

July 11, 2016 / 0 Comments
San Juan Pioneers: To Soar with Eagles by Gerald N. Lund

San Juan Pioneers: To Soar with Eagles by Gerald N. Lund

In the untamed and unforgiving desert of southeastern Utah, Mitch Westland and Edie Zimmer are among the Mormon settlers determined to make their homes amid the harshest of circumstances. Threatened by Indians, competing ranchers, and cattle rustlers, the young couple must prevail against man, nature, and their own fears in order to fulfill their dream of establishing a ranch—and a family—of their own. This sequel […]

May 11, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Accidental Goodbye by Marilyn Brown

The Accidental Goodbye by Marilyn Brown

When an exciting stranger named Brooker Rose arrives in Mercur, Utah, in 1902, he fiddles his way into Cecily McKinsey’s heart. But townspeople start to suspect him as he discovers gold in an abandoned mine whose owner is missing. Tongues begin wagging, not only against Brooker, but about others even Cecily’s father. The dark rumors that creep into the model community so severely damage its […]

April 9, 2016 / 1 Comment
Promised Valley: The Zion Trail by Marsha Ward

Promised Valley: The Zion Trail by Marsha Ward

On a hot summer day, young Elijah Marshall stops plowing to give a drink of water to two strangers and invite them to lunch with his family. His neighborly act sets in motion events that will drastically change his future. The strangers share a new religion, which the family embraces. But the neighbors want no part of Mormons. Multiple acts of unkindness and starvation drive […]

February 19, 2016 / 0 Comments
Soda Springs by Carolyn Steele

Soda Springs by Carolyn Steele

“Father, what are you doing?” Tessa whispered as loudly as she dared, fearful of waking the rest of her family. “Stop!” “Go back inside,” he hissed at her. She gasped in horror. “Your uniform!” Flames consumed the gray woolen coat and trousers. “Why?” When Tessa Darrow discovers her father burning his Confederate uniform, she has no idea that his secret will take them to the […]

December 8, 2015 / 2 Comments
Fire and Steel: The Storm Descends by Gerald N. Lund

Fire and Steel: The Storm Descends by Gerald N. Lund

The Eckhardt family finds that the turmoil in their lives will only increase as they try to move forward in a nation divided. Sergeant Hans Eckhardt has been discharged from his military service and wants nothing more than to start a new life with a career and a family, but the unrest swallowing his homeland seems determined to stop him. Suffering the devastating impact of […]

November 9, 2015 / 1 Comment
Zion’s Call by Jeremy Maughan

Zion’s Call by Jeremy Maughan

In the spring of 1836, Howard Egan, tired of working as a sailor, chooses to start a new life in Salem, Massachusetts. Howard takes a job in a rope factory and starts to become a prosperous businessman. He also intends to marry a good woman. When he meets Tamson Parshley for the first time, Howard believes he has found that good woman. He just didn’t […]

June 15, 2015 / 0 Comments
My Sweet Danish Rose by Tina Peterson Scott

My Sweet Danish Rose by Tina Peterson Scott

Berta Erichsen is an energetic fifteen-year-old with a mind of her own. Last seen in Farewell, My Denmark (2013), and with visions of happily ever after, she impulsively stays behind when her family joins the 1863 Mormon pilgrimage to America. When Berta finds herself homeless and alone in her Mormon faith, three men add to the confusion and danger of her life; the prominent man […]

January 30, 2015 / 0 Comments
San Juan Pioneers: Only the Brave by Gerald N. Lund

San Juan Pioneers: Only the Brave by Gerald N. Lund

Four years have passed since the first Mormon pioneers made the harrowing journey to care the Hole-In-the-Rock trail to the region of the San Juan River in southeastern Utah. In that time, the settlers have dug in deep to try to establish roots in this untamed and unforgiving desert, but life is still far from easy. Biting winds, devastating floods, scorching heat, barren terrain, and […]

December 8, 2014 / 2 Comments