Fill-in-the-Gaps or Stand-alone Companion Works to the Owen Family Saga. In chronological order:
Mended by Moonlight: A Shenandoah Neighbors Novella
Charlottesville, Virginia – 1865
A grief-stricken young Confederate widow, Ella Ruth Owen only wants to hide at home and wait to die.
Lacking a future, physician and surgeon Alexander Marshall doesn’t care that the army sends him to the hinterlands of Virginia to work at a new hospital.
(Mended by Moonlight is best enjoyed if read after the Owen Family Saga novel, Gone for a Soldier.)
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Ned’s Choice: A Shenandoah Neighbors Story
New Mexico and Colorado Territories – 1867
Ned Heizer has just released his betrothed from her promise to marry him. He’s leaving behind his brother and his friends to go in search of an unknown future. Is he mistaken in his belief that Maggie Julander is the girl for him?
*Mormon religious beliefs play a large part in this story.*
(Ned’s Choice is best enjoyed if read following the Owen Family Saga novel Trail of Storms.)
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Surprising Charity: Shenandoah Neighbors
New Mexico Territory – 1867
August 1867: A transplanted Civil War Widow. A grief-stricken New Mexican landowner. A persistent ghost with an odd demand.
(Surprising Charity is best enjoyed if read following the Owen Family Saga novel, Trail of Storms, and the Shenandoah Neighbors story, Ned’s Choice.)
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Broken: A Shenandoah Neighbors Story
Owen Family Homesteads, Colorado Territory – 1875
Rida Owen didn’t know married life on the Colorado frontier could be so difficult. Then a neighbor from her past stops to say hello and reveals a long-held secret.
(Broken is best enjoyed if read following the Owen Family Saga novels The Man from Shenandoah and Spinster’s Folly.)
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Bloodied Leather: A Shenandoah Neighbors Story
San Francisco – 1886
Isabelle Gilbert chafes against the restrictions that Victorian life puts on a young lady.
A Shenandoah Neighbors Story that extends the Owen Family universe, Bloodied Leather opens a new era for this popular family series.
