Book 1 in the heartwarming series, The Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister. Bound for California, five children must find their way when their mother dies in the desert.
In trying to pursue her dream of becoming a journalist in the rough mining camps of California, Corrie uncovers a conspiracy that threatens her life, and ultimately her family.
Reporter Corrie Belle Hollister is caught up in the tensions between North and South as the election of 1860 draws near and she works to help get Lincoln elected.
Reporter Corrie Hollister experiences the battle of Gettysburg on her way to Washington, where she meets President Lincoln and stays at Mrs. Surratt's boardinghouse, while trying to understand her role as a single woman and how it fits into God's plans for her.
A kindly pastor helps Corrie recover from amnesia, and she goes on to aid the Union cause in the Civil War and mourn President Lincoln's assassination.
Recovering from a Civil War bullet wound, Corrie Belle Hollister returns to her home and family a grown woman, and is followed to Miracle Springs by Christopher Braxton and his marriage proposal.