A Home of Her Own

On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Elsie is given no gift—only orders.

Raised within the cold walls of a New York orphanage, Elsie has learned that obedience is survival and hope is dangerous. When the headmistress informs her she is being sent west to marry a man she has never met, Elsie’s greatest fear isn’t the stranger waiting in Colorado...

Eleanor waited a year to follow her sister west.

When the orphanage sends Eleanor away with a marriage contract and a train ticket to Colorado, she doesn’t panic—she smiles, prays, and clings to one burning hope: Elsie is out there somewhere, and this forced “new life” might be the very road that leads them back to each other.

But Headmistress...

Marjory Finkle has survived worse than loneliness.

Raised in an orphanage where kindness was scarce and obedience was demanded, Marjory learned early how to keep her head down—and how to remind herself, and the younger girls she protected, that God still saw them as precious. When she is sent west to marry a stranger in Colorado, Marjory carries...