Johanne Perry

Bethany Hansen wasn't sure when or if she would ever see Benjamin Adams again. She also told herself that it didn't matter. But when Ben and his two brothers come home after more than two years of serving a mission to the Eastern States, her feelings of heartache and anger also return - fiercer than ever. And so do Ben's feelings for her. Good-naturedly, Ben's brothers attempt to reunite the two, even as they separately view for Bethany's younger...

Young Oliver Evans becomes part of group of boys called the Whistling and Whittling Brigade, who help guard the town of Nauvoo from anti-Mormon mobs following the death of the prophet.