Amid raging civil war, two orphans from a noble family and their companion, a young nun, have disappeared. With clues from the fevered ravings of a wounded monk, Brother Cadfael sets out on a dangerous quest to find them.
Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in...