It's Christmastime in Chicago, 1946. The Second Great War is over and Will Knight is looking forward to the holiday season. But, while his two brothers are happily married, he remains a lonesome bachelor with less luck in love than old Ebenezer Scrooge. His future prospects brighten considerably as an old crush becomes suddenly available, but just as quickly his thoughts begin to turn in a new direction. The woman they all call "The Wicked Witch of Michigan Avenue." Is it folly? Is it sorcery? Or could it be that Will's life is about to be changed by Christmas Magic?

Having escaped the hell that was the Pearl Harbor bombing and marrying the girl of his dreams, George Grant is faced with a whole new set of problems as the nation races headlong into the second World War. President Roosevelt has a plan, and it isn't long before George is called upon to use all his skills as a aeronautical engineer. Meanwhile, his wife Georgiana has been summoned to Congress, his son Robert to the new aircraft carrier Hornet, and his new sister-in-law Laura to a mysterious government agency. All in all, it appears that the Grant family's problems are only just beginning. It's 1942. The War is beginning in earnest, and the United States is about to risk everything on a grand symbolic gesture . . .

Life has certainly changed for the "Three Queens" of McNee station. Sarah Booth, Susan Dickson, and Little Duck had all just begun to settle down for their new lives in Colorado when trouble came rolling across the plains from the East. Friends, enemies, and complete strangers arrived in sprawling wagon trains, continuing to change the very dynamics of their lives. However, there is no greater catalyst than family, and for Sarah in particular it is about to become a very Full House indeed. The arrival of her father and her remaining sisters was bad enough, but how could it compare to the scandal and corruption they brought along? And what of Trot, the enterprising little donkey who brought them all the way West? Well, for Old Ben at least, his legacy begins and ends with the tale of a particularly wicked deer...

In the late 1850s, tales of gold from the West beckon those whose life back East holds little promise. In Missouri, a poor girl from a trashy family looks to escape a life of misery while a dissatisfied donkey breeder seeks a friend. In Indiana, a beautiful but pampered princess seeks a life with purpose while a crippled former soldier desires only a place to call his own. In Kansas, a captured Indian girl longs for a savior while a mountain man is unaware of what he really desires. It is only in the journey West that their dreams can come to fruition, with the help of guts, gold, and a little donkey named Trot.

"I have seen war. I would think no one who saw the Western Front in the Great War would ever think that a preferable way to solve world problems." George Grant thought his biggest problem was getting the love of his life to marry him. Living in the American paradise of Hawaii and caring for his teenage daughter Amelia were his daily concerns, punctuated only by what romantic trysts he was able to arrange. When the opportunity arrives for a private weekend with just himself and his sweetheart Georgiana, he gladly seizes it and things finally seem to be falling into place. However, George's paradise is about to be shattered. It is December 7, 1941, overlooking Pearl Harbor. Just what is that out over the horizon?

"I will tell you a truth . . .I do not think the war will ever end."" The Cumberland Guard was a state militia, filled with veterans of the war with Mexico. When the opportunity for real combat arose, they were swift to answer, but no one could have foretold the consequences. Experience the first days of our nation's greatest conflict through the eyes of Daphne Harrison, her husband James, Ronald ""Sean"" Fairchild, and many others in the Cumberland Guard. This book details several events alluded to in its companion book, ""A Woman of Consequence.""

There are those who would serve their country, but the country doesn't want them. In this second book of the Cumberland Guard, follow the lesser told side of the Civil War-- its less than honest warriors. After the split of the Guard, the Eastern branch begins to gather some highly unusual recruits in Ameritus Hayes, ""Lucky Lane"" Hickok, and . . . another Billie Crum? Just what is going on here?