The Laramie Historical Series by Karen J. Hasley

In 1919, a world war and a deadly pandemic are ending, but in little Blessing, Kansas, more trouble is brewing. A young soldier is murdered, and it will take bright Thea Hansen, sister of the main suspect, along with his defense lawyer Capt. Gus Davis, to get to the bottom of the crime.

“Every calling comes with a cost.” In 1901, Dinah Hudson’s calling is assisting famed real-life reformer Donaldina Cameron rescue young Chinese girls trafficked into San Francisco for slavery and prostitution. But every man in Dinah’s world is suspect, and if she doesn’t stay focused on the task at hand, the cost to Dinah may be her own life.

Lou Caldecott is happy in her little town of Blessing, Kansas. The Civil War is over, her general store bustles, and her sister Lily is happily married. But the railroad is coming and so is trouble. When John Rock Davis, Civil War veteran and man with a past, arrives in Blessing, things will never be the same again. And neither will Lou.

“Many waters cannot quench love.” Johanna Swan, Chicago heiress and suffragist, learned this the hard way as a Titanic survivor. Now she plans to use her considerable fortune to help poor and immigrant women. But life is less predictable than any business venture and love can get in the way of even a strong-minded, logical woman like Johanna.

In 1910 Chicago, new doctor, Katherine Davis, spends her intern year working with real-life social reformer Jane Addams at famous Hull-House, treating immigrants newly arrived to America. Katherine will make a difference in that world, but in the end, the real difference will be her heart’s discovery about what – and who – home really is.