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Journey of the heart volume 4
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"Emmie finds shelter in the arms of a soldier, but her secret could drive them apart. When Emmie Croftner answered the door to her late husband's home, she discovered a terrible truth. A woman she's never met reveals that she and Emmie shared the same husband and that the bigamist had never divorced his first wife. The home and farm are not Emmie's property after all. Suddenly displaced and powerless, Emmie realizes she can't stay in Wabash, Indiana,...
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Journey of the heart volume 3
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"On the brink of war with the Sioux, a young woman risks everything to expose the betrayal threatening the man she loves. Christmas is coming, and the air at Fort Laramie has turned cold ... but relations with the Sioux have turned colder. As tensions between soldiers and natives approach a tipping point, Ben Croftner and Jessica DuBois prepare a trap for Rand Campbell. Bitter from rejection and backfired plans, Croftner has enlisted the help of Rand's...
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Journey of the heart volume 5
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"A rival threatens Emmie's budding romance with Isaac. At Fort Laramie, soldier Isaac Liddle determines he will court and win Emmie Croftner's hand. Though courting seems improbable for a woman in her condition, Emmie begins to care deeply for Issac and chafes as Jessica Dubois sets her bonnet for him. When Jessica learns of Emmie's secret pregnancy, she blackmails her. With the Sioux Wars raging outside the safety of Fort Laramie, Emmie knows she...
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Journey of the heart volume 6
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Emmie's hope for a life with Isaac is overshadowed by a tragic loss at Fort Phil Kearny. Isaac Liddle is keen to marry Emmie, and she knows she shouldn't hide her pregnancy from him any long. But before she can tell him her secret, a widower friend asks the impossible of Emmie: Will she honor her promise to his dead wife by marrying him to care for the orphaned baby? With the Sioux Wars threatening outside the fort, Emmie's solemn vow threatens her...
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Journey of the heart volume 2
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When Sarah Montgomery's father succumbs to his long illness, Sarah is faced with a life-altering choice : submit to her brother's will and marry the deceptive Ben Croftner, or escape through the dangerous American West to reclaim the heart of her beloved Rand Campbell at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. From captivity in her family's home, Sarah makes her decision, and begins the perilous journey to Wyoming by train.
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"In theaftermath of the Civil War, a young woman searches for her lost love at the edge of the West. The Civil War has destroyed Sarah Montgomery's marriage before it's even begun. After Sarah receives word that her fiancé, Rand Campbell, has been killed fighting for the Union, her brothers and ailing father persuade her to pledge herself to Ben Croftner--despite her strong misgivings. But when Sarah finds out that Rand is in fact alive--and that...
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All six segments in the Journey of the Heart series are now available in one e-book volume!
A Heart's Disguise
In the celebratory mood of the recently-ended Civil War, Sarah discovers her betrothed has been keeping a devastating secret.
A Heart's Obsession
Will Sarah's journey west lead her back into the arms of the one man she can trust?
A Heart's Danger
On the brink of war with the Sioux, Sarah risks everything to expose the betrayal threatening...
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Highlights the vulnerability of captive-bred predators in the Kalahari. Val and Sirga go hunting. They swim in a seasonal pan and encounter a puff adder, lizards and a large tortoise, Val gives the orphaned wild dog puppies their first rabies vaccination. Sirga is learning to hunt. She chases wildebeest and takes down a hartebeest. Val visits Two weeks after the hartebeest kill Sirga falls ill.
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Dramatic changes in the rainy season transforms the Kalahari and exposes Sirga's vulnerability when it comes to hunting antelope that are strong and well nourished. It follows the emergence, mating and pro-creation of African Bull frogs a seasonal phenomenon, and Sirga's unique encounter with African Bull Frogs on a pan.
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The end of the next dry season brings the series strands together. Sirga chases eland. Three male lions are moved into an electrified enclosure. A scientist comes to take samples of maggots that are found in the slaughtered wildebeest's horns. Val moves a one-eyed lion into another enclosure. On a morning hunt Sirga chases down a wildebeest calf.
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Establishes the setting, the bond between Val and Sirga and the back-story of human/predator conflict. It starts with Sirga as a small cub, Willie the lion hunter's confession and rogue lions feasting on cattle. It establishes the captive rogue lions, what it takes to feed and look after them.
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Narrows the focus down to Val and Sirga and Grasslands. Val and Sirga go out on a hunt. Sirga chases kudu, plays with a small tortoise and learns about the dangers Oryx horns pose to a young lioness. Val goes with Willie to take an Oryx to an isolated San settlement in the no-man's-land between the farms and the Central Kalahari game Reserve.
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Explores whether capturing lions is better than shooting them. Large predators are hardwired to live, fight and die on their own terms and it takes constant vigilance to keep them safe in captivity. Captivity might be better than death, but it isn't a long-term solution either.
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