Proper Boston widow Jane Weber moves to the Dakota Territories under layers of lies to save her reputation. Stirring up controversy, Jane rooms with the last Blackfoot Sioux in town while navigating a mercurial friendship with the fiercely independent town grocer. In Flats Junction, though, everyone has an untold story. Battling her shortcomings, falsehoods, and swallowing her inherent curiosity, Jane must choose how she will truly reinvent herself, and where she belongs.

What kind of man chooses to trade all the comforts of a civilized East for the chaos of the Wild West? What forces a man on an unstoppable trajectory toward passion, love and loss? And how does one decide to be a doctor at a time when the entire profession is ridiculed?Dr. Patrick Kinney is no ordinary man, not least for his tenuous position as the only medical professional in Flats Junction. He's met his match in the widow Jane, in more ways than one, but together they struggle ag...

No-one takes a woman seriously in the Dakotas, least of all a woman of mixed race who owns the only general store in Flats Junction. But Kate has never let her heritage or her gender stand in her way. Not even when shy, Boston-bred widow Jane moved to town and stole her beloved. Not even when her Lakota mother was forced to flee after her house mysteriously burned down. But now a posse of outlaws is threatening her supplies, and making demands on Kate that will surely become too much to be...

In 1848, African American slaves Ellen and William hatch a plan to break free from their captivity and ensure that their future children will never be torn from them. The escape plan is ingenious, if borderline ludicrous.They depart Georgia in broad daylight with Ellen, born of a white slave owner and Black woman, disguised as a white Southern gentleman. With William at her side, she must adopt the mannerisms and bigotry of her enslavers, hiding the fact that neither she nor Willia...

Did men truly conquer the frontier, or was it the women who quietly traded hopes and dreams in a gamble to build something even bigger for themselves and their families? In Flats Junction, sacrifices grow ever starker as the town begins to realize it faces an existential crisis on multiple fronts.Enigmatic storekeeper Kate has ambitions to become more powerful than her father, but to do so requires making deals with many devils to bring electricity and a hospital, perhaps to Flats ...

A village snared with hive-brain controlled by an ancient queen faces an evil beast who is said to devour the hearts of maidens...or so the rumor goes...Zaklina hoards stories to give her comfort in a lonely existence, even after she travels to distant Miódshire to care for her pregnant sister. Upon arriving in the village, Zaklina meets the town's wisewoman, Mrs. Staryski, who warns Zaklina about the local meadow and the ageless monster who roams the forests beyond it.

A "beautifully photographed . . . indispensable cookware reference" featuring guidance and recipes for copper pots, cast-iron skillets and stoneware (David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen and Drinking French ).Today, most people are concerned about eating seasonal, organic, and local food. But we don't think about how the choices we make about our pots, pans, and bowls can...

A gorgeous love letter to our most revered cookware—copper pots, cast-iron skillets, and classic stoneware—and the artistry and workmanship behind them, written by an expert craftsperson, perhaps the only woman coppersmith in America.Today, most people are concerned about eating seasonal, organic, and local food. But we don’t think about how the choices we make about our pots, pans, and bowls can also enhance our meals and our lives. Sara Dahmen believes understand...

Flats Junction is a town torn in half as the war between the two doctors spills into everyday life. Businesses are forced to choose sides, as are the people who own them. Caught in the middle are Kate, Marie and Jane, each with their own ambitions and fears.Kate, postponing her wedding for political reasons, attempts to hold onto power as the newly elected Mayor, even as she faces her own death. Marie begins to lose the battle of her depression and deep changes within her family. J...

When her tinsmith father and brothers head West, Polish immigrant Marie Kotlarczyk has no choice but to go along. Family, after all, is family. The Dakota Territories are anything but welcoming to the Kotlarczyks, and as the months trip by, Marie must pick up the hammers she's secretly desired but also feared. When she faces the skeptical people of Flats Town, the demands of the local Army commander, and her public failures, her inner voice grows destructively, forcing Marie to decide exac...