The year is 1943, and Andy Gledhill's months of training as a paratrooper have culminated in his being assigned to the 89th Airborne. But he soon learns that government has other plans for him. The newly formed Office of Strategic Services needs soldiers with language talents like Andy's to drop into Europe behind enemy lines and help fight the war from the inside out. Andy's new life of deception and sabotage is worlds away from his upbringing

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Casey Harrison guided his mare over the bridge and halted for a moment as the Barrington home came into view. Something imperceptibly warm tingled in his chest. He knew the feeling well, he'd felt it when he'd come out of the waters of baptism, and it had come again when he'd arrived in Iowa City, where the Saints were gathering in preparation to move west. But nothing could prepare Casey for the emotional and spiritual storms that lie ahead as he...

Katie Russell, a telephone operator overhears a chilling exchange between her friend Eliza and a familiar male voice. When her friend disappears, she forms an alliance with Will Jasperson, the new lighthouse keeper to help find Eliza.

An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression is faced with prejudice and discrimination that its children do not understand.

At fifteen, Laura earns her teacher's certificate, gets a job, and starts going to parties.

This novel follows the events of WWII as they affect the Thomases, a Mormon family from Salt Lake City, Utah. Alex Thomas is worried about the men in his infantry unit and his wife Anna in England. In Japan Wally is a prisoner of war. In Hawaii, Bobbi is hoping for word from her boyfriend Richard. In Germany Heinrich Stoltz is working as a spy for British intelligence and looking for his missing son.