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California's 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the "instant city" of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state's vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional "city."

Abigail Livingston is tired of the uncertainty—are her suitors really interested in her or her father's fortune? The only way to know for sure is to pretend to be someone else. But her plan derails the moment she boards the train to Durango, Colorado. Matthew Bellamy is on a mission. His business and financial future depends upon his ability to keep a certain wealthy debutante out of trouble. But when he loses track of her on the way to her holiday in Colorado, he realizes he's the one in trouble.

Roseanna Sherman escapes the wealthy man who is determined to steal her children. But will the ruse of becoming a proxy bride fall apart when she’s thrust into the arms of a small-town sheriff? Only time and the wanted poster stuck to the jailhouse wall will tell. Southern grace meets Western grit, and love becomes the greatest gift of all. Join these Southern Belles on a Christmas journey to bridge the North and the South.

Ugly reality kept young Nicolet Sherman tied to the oldest profession in the world - at least until a determined Yankee soldier stole her away from her mother’s house of ill repute. But years of broken trust and abuse left the exquisite beauty with scars no eye could see. And what could one very determined army chaplain change . . . except her mind?

Celebrate the season with a getaway to the Holiday Cottage Farm near the quaint mountain town of Sprucewood, Colorado – a place where relationships are kindled, dreams come true, and guests find themselves and their hopes renewed. At least, that is what the ad boasts when Danni Brandt stumbles across the picturesque posting on social media. But the true draw is the majestic snowcapped mountains and holiday festivities of Sprucewood, Colorado. Escaping her enormous and exuberant family for a bit of peace and quiet is exactly what the doctor ordered.

In the wake of the Civil War, Merry Sherman and her sisters were forced to accept untenable situations that left them at the mercy of wealthy men’s capricious whims. But when Merry is forcefully expelled from the estate she served, the specter of homelessness and hunger is all she can see.