This novel follows the events of WWII as they affect the Thomases, a Mormon family from Salt Lake City, Utah. Alex Thomas is worried about the men in his infantry unit and his wife Anna in England. In Japan Wally is a prisoner of war. In Hawaii, Bobbi is hoping for word from her boyfriend Richard. In Germany Heinrich Stoltz is working as a spy for British intelligence and looking for his missing son.

Jen Young, a young Mormon mother, has always felt that she can make life perfect for her family until life's challenges and a difficult struggle raising an autistic daughter teach her to reach out to family, ward members, and God.

Battered down and humiliated on an international scale, post-World War I Germany is a nation on the brink of economic and social collapse. Work is scarce, food has become an extravagance, and money is practically worthless. The people have lost the pride and conviction that once carried them. But some see their suffering as a political opportunity to restore the Fatherland to its former glory--by any means necessary. In the fourth volume of Gerald...

Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man, with a beautiful new wife on his arm, but is soon tangled in a web of rumor and deception that threatens to tear his relationship apart. In Kirtland the Prophet charters a bank to repay creditors, which fails. Bankrupt and embittered, contentions erupt among church leaders, as Ben Steed and his family follow Joseph back to Missouri. Meanwhile Governor Boggs raises an army with Joshua at its head. When...

Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife at age 16. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's four brothers, one mentally ill sister, and numerous wives and children--Irene herself...

Casey Harrison guided his mare over the bridge and halted for a moment as the Barrington home came into view. Something imperceptibly warm tingled in his chest. He knew the feeling well, he'd felt it when he'd come out of the waters of baptism, and it had come again when he'd arrived in Iowa City, where the Saints were gathering in preparation to move west. But nothing could prepare Casey for the emotional and spiritual storms that lie ahead as he...

It is the eve of the Civil War, and the delicate fabric of young nation threatens to tear apart as volatile issues divide its people.