Owen Family Saga · Box Set 1-3

This box set contains the following novels from The Owen Family Saga:

THE MAN FROM SHENANDOAH

Carl Owen doesn't intend to lose anything—not his land, not his cattle, and certainly not his girl—ever again!

The young cavalryman returns from the Civil War to find the family farm destroyed, his favorite brother dead, food scarce, and his father determined to leave the Shenandoah Valley to build a cattle empire in Colorado Territory. Crossing the continent, Carl falls in love with his brother's fiancée while set to wed another girl, but he might lose everything if the murderous thug Berto Acosta has his way. Carl battles a band of outlaws, a prairie fire, blizzards, a trackless waterless desert, and his own brother—all for the hand of feisty Ellen Bates.

RIDE TO RATON

Thinking he’s been unjustly treated by his father, James Owen leaves the family homestead to make a new life for himself.

The turbulent world of post-Civil War Colorado Territory is full of danger and prejudice. Personal setbacks and bitter loneliness threaten to break the young Confederate veteran. Then James meets another lonely soul, beautiful young Amparo Garcés, who has come from Santa Fe to Colorado to marry a stranger. Through a twist of fate, their futures are changed forever when their lives are merged in a marriage of convenience. James and Amparo undertake a hazardous horseback trek over Raton Pass to Santa Fe, battling a challenging language barrier, their personal demons, and winter’s raging storms.

TRAIL OF STORMS*

Jessie Bingham put heartbreak aside to tend to her sister’s needs, but when she settled for second best in love, she didn’t know James Owen would come back into her life.

The aftermath of the Civil War creates cruel circumstances for the Bingham family. When Jessie’s married sister Hannah is brutally attacked, the extended family flees to the West. Brothers George and Ned Heizer soon join the party, bringing news that the Binghams are being pursued. Even after they fight off that threat, the plagues of poverty, bad weather, and Hannah’s frightful secret stalk their journey.

Nursing her battered heart when she hears James Owen took a wife, Jessie accepts Ned’s offer of marriage, but puts off the wedding until they reach Albuquerque. A stop on the trail brings surprises that launch Jessie into a bewildering tangle of values, emotions, and high adventure.

*This novel contains a rape scene and discussions between characters of Mormon beliefs.