Pamela Nowak

In 1905, Lottie Chase arrives in Denver with her ten-year-old daughter, Elsa, after fleeing her abusive uncle in New York. She secures a job at Elitch's Gardens, one of the city's new amusement parks. Everything would be perfect if it weren't for the garden manager, Caleb Hudson. Cared for by park co-owner Mary Elitch Long since he was a boy, Caleb is fiercely protective and fears that Lottie plans to take advantage of the Longs. But a series of dramatic...

In 1879, Omaha librarian Lise Dupree hides her part-Sioux heritage as she agrees to help research legal questions for a band of Ponca Indians. A quest for justice becomes a search for identity as she encounters ambitious district attorney Zach Spencer in a battle that will transform them both. In the process, they confront Lise's past, Zach's political aspirations, the dangerous prejudice of an unstable Indian agent, the subtle differences between...