Depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit.

"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...

"When FBI profiler Kaely Quinn visits Nebraska to care for her ailing mother, she notices suspicious connections among a series of local fires and calls on her partner, Noah Hunter, to help find the arsonist. They embark on a twisted path to catch a mad man intent on Kaely's death"-- When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, FBI profiler Kaely Quinn 'takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska. The area has been hit by a series of fires, attributed...

Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.

Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him--and everyone he loves--into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence ....

Thirteen-year-old Sadie Rose and a runaway woman from Boston depend on their faith when they lose their way in a snow storm and are taken captive by rustlers on the Nebraska frontier.

East of the Keystone Ranch territory is North Platte, Nebraska, where "Buffalo Bill" Cody and others organized a Fourth of July celebration in 1882. Now an annual event called the North Platte Independence Day Blowout, it was one of the earliest Western rodeos. The Keystone cowboy they call "Link" rides south for an extended leave and comes upon a strange stone tower inhabited by a trio of odd characters: a stonemason, his daughter, and a hunchback...