1. The Icecutter’s Daughter
Merrill Krause has spent years working beside her father and brothers in Minnesota’s ice-harvesting business, and a promise to care for them has left little room for courtship. When Rurik Jorgenson arrives to join his uncle’s furniture enterprise, friendship develops into affection even as family obligations…
2. The Quarryman’s Bride
Emmalyne Madsen and Tavin Peterson expect to marry until a family tragedy leads Emmalyne’s father to demand that she remain unmarried and care for her parents. Years later the families meet again in a Minnesota quarrying community, where old affection survives but obedience, resentment and economic…
3. The Miner’s Lady
Chantel Panetta and Isabella Panetta live within an Italian American mining community divided by a feud between the Panetta and Calarco families. When affection grows across the hostile boundary, the younger generation inherits threats and obligations created long before they were born. The novel uses mining…