But instead, he discovers that his father has died, his home is overrun by livestock and drunken servants, and Elizabeth, having believed Ross dead, is now engaged to his cousin. Ross must start over, building a completely new path for his life, one that takes him in exciting and unexpected directions....Thus begins an intricately plotted story spanning loves, lives, and generations. The Poldark series is the masterwork of Winston Graham, who evoked the period and people like only he could, and created a world of rich and poor, loss and love, that listeners will not soon forget.

    All alone, Dale had to face the bitterness and greed of her relatives who were trying to claim her home. But Dale's greatest sorrow was that her beloved was at war--and he might never return.Then Dale's deep faith and gentle love begin to change her self-centered family, and a hope starts to build in her heart that love truly can triumph over all.

    Why I Am a Member of the Church of Christ

    The film, The Best Years of Our Lives was based on this book, with some changes.

    One was the sea of waving grass known as Kansas. The other was the captivating Judy. The restless pushed westward in search of new land. But Jon saw in the raw frontier before him not a settlement of sod houses but a town with a future- where he too would have a future- to teach, to marry, to raise a family.His faith in both dream's was unshaken- until the impetuous Judy met Jonathan's closest friend.