A Novel of Colorado (The Homeward Trilogy #1)

devastated By The Loss Of Four Sons To Tuberculosis And His Wife In Childbirth, A Philadelphia Patriarch Sends His Three Living Children West In 1883 To Make A New Life In The Clean Mountain Air Of Colorado Springs. Odessa Is Struggling To Survive Consumption; Moira Is Beautiful And Dangerously Headstrong; And Pugnacious Dominic Is Charged With Establishing A New Arm Of The Family Business-a Business He Doesn't Want. Readers Will Love The Homeward Trilogy, In Which The St. Clair Siblings Struggle To Follow Where The Heavenly Father Leads Them. In Breathe, Odessa Arrives At A Famous Sanitarium Seeking A Cure For The Disease That Killed Her Brothers. While Moira And Nic Establish Themselves In Colorado Springs Society, Dessa Inches Her Way Back To Health . . . And Into Love With A Softspoken Fellow Patient, Rancher Bryce Mcallan. When She Witnesses A Murder-in The Very Hospital Where She Is Recuperating-and Other Patients Begin To Die, Dessa Struggles To Breathe Again. She'd Always Expected To Die Young, But Now That She Has A Reason To Live, Can She Hold On To Her Fragile Health To Solve The Mystery? By the time Dominic and Moira St. Clair get their ailing sister, Odessa, to Colorado Springs in the winter of 1883, she is nearly dead. Odessa has been seriously ailing for the past ear from consumption, an illness that claimed the lives of four of her younger brothers, prompting her father to send his only surviving children west to chase the cure. Several days after her arrival, Odessa witnesses what she fears is the murder of miner Sam O'Toole, friend and neighbor to the charming Bryce McAllan. What's more, Sam leaves her a poem containing clues that seem to direct her to his mine, which is purported to carry a fantastic vein of silver. But if she is ever to rise from her bed again, she must first concentrate on conquering the giant that threatens her-consumption. Indeed, she must learn to breathe again-daring to embrace her life, her future, and hope in her God Embark on this western epic in Book 1 of the Homeward TrilogyIt's Colorado, 1883. A publishing heiress is on the brink of life.and death. Her beautiful, younger sister is called to the forbidden stage. Her brother and troubled guardian is raging inside. A veiled treasure map leads to a hidden silver mine while a threatening villain hovers in the shadows. And a hero is bent on saving his bride. JUST BREATHE.** Embark on this western epic in Book 1 of the Homeward Trilogy It's Colorado, 1883. A publishing heiress is on the brink of life.and death. Her beautiful, younger sister is called to the forbidden stage. Her brother and troubled guardian is raging inside. A veiled treasure map leads to a hidden silver mine while a threatening villain hovers in the shadows. And a hero is bent on saving his bride. JUST BREATHE. In 1883 Colorado Springs, Odessa arrives at a famous sanitarium seeking a cure for the disease that killed her brothers, but she witnesses a murder in the hospital where she is being treated and must uncover the killer before she succumbs to her disease