![]() ![]() ![]() Each son must complete a sustainable town along the Illinois Central Railroad and marry a woman he loves within six months’ time. ![]() Thornton Quincy is at the other end of the economic spectrum: his father, the owner of Quincy Enterprises, is nearing the end of his life, and he decides to set up a friendly competition between his twin sons to determine who will take over the company. Due to the 1857 financial crisis in New York City, 19-year-old German immigrant Elise Neumann is forced to leave her younger siblings behind and head west in the hope of finding work. Christy Award–winner Hedlund ( For Love and Honor) crafts an enjoyable first installment of the Orphan Train Series, about the women involved with the 19th-century movement to resettle orphaned children from the crowded East Coast slums to the Midwest. ![]()
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