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When Tomorrow Comes – Book 6

The Douglas Family Saga Continues With…When Tomorrow Comes by DL Larson

Praise for DL Larson’s historical family saga …

‘A story so full of compassion and purpose it will grab your heart and not let go…An outstanding read. Shirley Johnson, Midwest Book review of Memories Trail

‘I laughed, I cried, I hated, I loved in this real-life novel where love is worth salvaging no matter what…’ Ashley Denis, Front Street Review of Promises To Keep 2008 Reader’s Choice Award

‘Life is precious, and nothing is too dark to make the conscious decision to end it all. The author does an excellent job at illustrating her point through an amazing story of family, tragedy, and true love.’
Ruth A. Hill, reviewer of Promises My Love Final Fifteen Finalist 2014 ILA

‘A coming-of-age saga. The pitfalls of young love are as heart wrenching as adult love as Francis and Ruf discover. Uncertainty strikes us all…it’s what one does with the angst that makes all the difference.’ DL Larson, author of Coming Home

‘Larson created a compelling novel that I found difficult to put down. I was sorry to see it end. Readers will enjoy escaping back into time with Back Home Again.
Paige Lovitt for Reader Views 2021 Five Star Review

When Tomorrow Comes

Hattie and Elizabeth head to the Kansas Territory to see family. While there, Elizabeth discovers her son Will has kept a huge secret from her… the U.S. Government has invited all Indian Nations to a great Powwow in Ft. Laramie. It could also be a great blood bath…

Francis and his family head to New York City to investigate his inheritance. While there, Jim becomes involved with a runaway from Georgia. Shanna is everything he wants in a girl. Yet a young abolitionist Melody Penchant intervenes. Federal agents are lurking close. And Jim and his father discover someone is stealing from their shipping company.

Ruf, feeling down and out for being stuck at home helps with the new library. He meets Betty Lu Marshall who is in Shadow Creek for the summer to help her mama organize the books. Ruf tells her he already has a fiancé, and they can only be friends. Then he receives a letter from the Kansas territory and with his temper unleashed like never before, he too heads west.

Once Jim is back at school and Ruf visits him, their previous troubles collide in a neighboring plantation. Devastation, joy, love and murder will haunt them into tomorrow.
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DL Larson lives in northern Illinois with her farming family. When Tomorrow Comes is the sixth book in the Douglas Family Series. Visit DL Larson on Facebook or visit her at https://dllarson.com

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Back Home Again – Book 5

The Douglas Family saga continues with…Back Home Again by DL Larson

‘A story so full of compassion and purpose it will grab your heart and not let go…An outstanding read. Shirley Johnson, Midwest Book review of Memories Trail

‘I laughed, I cried, I hated, I loved in this real-life novel where love is worth salvaging no matter what…’ Ashley Denis, Front Street Review of Promises To Keep

‘Life is precious, and nothing is too dark to make the conscious decision to end it all. The author does an excellent job at illustrating her point through an amazing story of family, tragedy, and true love.’
Ruth A. Hill, reviewer of Promises My Love

‘A coming-of-age saga. The pitfalls of young love are as heart wrenching as adult love as Francis and Ruf discover. Uncertainty strikes us all…it’s what one does with the angst that makes all the difference.’
DL Larson, author of Coming Home

Back Home Again

Francis Frailey has a new wife, and he has to make the trip to meet her family in Louisville. Simple, really. They would join his brother-in-law Joe and family on a steamboat, and be at their destination in a few days... How could he have forgotten the boat trip from his childhood? The nightmarish memory of his uncle abusing him? Or the memory of his mother pretending all was well? How could he make his wife happy yet not go down that ugly road in his mind?

Ruf Douglas is still in love with Hattie Carter, except she’s not all that fond of him anymore. Still, they were told to get along on the family trip. Ruf is to race in the Louisville Fourth of July horse race where fifty will be competing for the $5,000 reward. Winning the race may be the least of his problems especially when he ends up in jail.

Hattie and Granny (Elizabeth) have a deep secret. Hattie has promised to keep their heartache between them and God. No one else. Ever. Only later does Hattie begin to understand how devastating their secret is and how it might affect the rest of her life. And Ruf’s.

Jim Frailey has come to terms with his new mother, mostly. He’s intrigued with the idea of a new grandfather but is unsettled that Richard is a slave owner and has influence in local politics. Jim ends up helping Ruf out after his latest debacle with horse racing. Worse yet, he does something he vowed to never do again! He thought that was the worst of their adventure until they wake up to find their prized horse missing. Ruf is too sick to go looking but they head out anyway, at Ruf’s insistence. Jim realizes Ruf is a gambler for sure but gambling on his health takes a nasty turn.

Coming Home – Book 4

His rambunctious grandson, Ruf, misses him, but knows too, Gramps would tell him to get on with life, find an adventure. Ruf believes horse racing will give him plenty of adventures. Then Hattie Carter spies on him, wanting to be friends. The girl talks too much. Ruf soon discovers she is lonely and heartsick for her folks. She shares secrets with him no one else knows. He might have to become a vagabond if his grandmother finds out he’s ruined sweet Hattie’s reputation.

Elizabeth is lonely for Will, her one and only love, but young Hattie Carter has moved in with her since her folks passed away. The girl brightens the old cabin with her youthful enthusiasm. She wants to know about the Indians and the life Will and Elizabeth led so long ago. Even when her adopted Indian son visits, Elizabeth doesn’t want to think of those days, long gone now. She hopes her son-in-law Francis will find peace at last and is intrigued that a woman has finally caught his attention. Maybe her grandchildren Jim and Crystal will find happiness after all if Francis lets another woman into his life.

Francis Frailey doesn’t need a woman. Or so that’s what he has told his family for more than three years since his lovely wife passed away. His employer’s wife has other ideas and Francis is introduced to yet another niece. Her name is Mary Anderson, fresh in from Louisville. At least this one is good looking, he noticed that. No matter, he’s determined not to spend the summer escorting this woman about. Except Mary Anderson has plans of her own he soon discovers. He’s not sure what to do with such an obstinate woman or her irrational plans that don’t include him.

Promises to Keep

Gambling threatens to ruin a family; infidelity taints a marriage, and tender dreams lay shattered. Join the Douglas family on an adventure of the heart and soul, a journey that each must make as they search for the forgiving power of love. Annie Douglas's wayward husband Joe spends too much time at the saloon. His obsession drives Annie to do the unthinkable. Christine Douglas Frailey is determined to strengthen the marriage bond with her husband. But Francis has a nasty secret he keeps from her, destroying the trust between them. Devastation tears each couple apart, but is devotion and deep-rooted love strong enough to bring them back together?

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Promises My Love

Francis Frailey fears he might become as abusive as his uncle once was, so he admires his young family from a distance. His plan is lonely, but safe, until his wife Christine sneaks past his staunch decorum. With tender devotion she coaxes him beyond his wretched childhood memories to a place where trust and love grows.

The fragile bond shatters when Francis' family intervenes and he must decide if hate will rule his heart. Christine promises forgiveness will make him whole, but Francis aches for revenge. He's determined to kill his uncle and be done.

Christine's brother, Joe Douglas, has plans of his own that include asking his wife Annie to face her troubled past. But to help Christine, Joe agrees to go after Francis and bring him home. Taking his young son and nephew with him unhinges them all. Joe doesn't know if the love Francis has for his son is stronger than the hate he harbors for his uncle. Or perhaps Francis despises himself most of all. Joe fears the wrong person may end up dead.

Memories Trail: Part 1

For Elizabeth Kincaid, her innocence as well as her ignorance of frontier ways spell danger when she is captured by a band of savages and taken into the wilds of the Ohio Territory. Except one of those savages, the leader named Tecumseh, is not the heathen she though he was, especially wehn she realizes they share a common gift, visions of things to come.

Tecumseh asked Elizabeth for a vision, and after several days pass, she tells him of a man who will come to their village in friendship. No one is more surprised than Elizabeth when the man appears with the morning sun just as she envisioned.

But evil lurks even in the most tranquil of settings and Tecumseh's brother accuses 'the man of her vision' Will Douglas, of being the devil. To defend his honor and hers, Will must run the gauntlet. His life or death will decide her own.

Governor Harrison of the Indiana Territory intends to expand the frontier. The Shawnee and other Indian tribes are to give up their land or suffer the consequences. The Shawnee, Tecumseh's tribe, have already given all they can. Tecumseh wishes for a united Indian Nation where they can live just as their ancestors had for generations. The British in Detroit have long guns and cannon aimed at the Americans. It is only a matter of time before war breaks out.

Tecumseh tells Elizabeth he sees Will's death as easily as he sees his own. Despite her pleas, Will picks up his war club to defend the people he loves. His decision could well destroy them both.

Memories Trail: Part 2

Governor Harrison of the Indiana Territory intends to expand the frontier. The Shawnee and other Indian tribes are to give up their land or suffer the consequences. The Shawnee, Tecumseh's tribe, have already given all they can. Tecumseh wishes for a united Indian Nation where they can live just as their ancestors had for generations. The British in Detroit have long guns and cannon aimed at the Americans. It is only a matter of time before war breaks out.

Tecumseh tells Elizabeth he sees Will's death as easily as he sees his own. Despite her pleas, Will picks up his war club to defend the people he loves. His decision could well destroy them both.

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A Wicked Appetite

All treats! No Tricks!

Enjoy recipes for corn broth soup, chocolate-chocolate chip cookies, and pumpkin pie thumbprint kolackies along with these fantastic fall romance stories. With a dedication from bestsellers Tracey Devlyn and Adrienne Giordano, this collection was written by the Windy City Chapter of RWA in honor of librarian and author A. Lynne Wall, and proceeds will go to Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Memories Trail

Three people, united in passion and purpose, are torn apart by the destruction of war. Domination over wilderness beyond the frontier threatens all they believe in. For Elizabeth Kincaid, her innocence as well as her ignorance of frontier ways spells danger when she is captured by a band of savages and taken into the wilds of the Ohio Territory. Except one of these savages, the leader named Tecumseh is not the heathen she thought he was, especially when she realizes they share a common gift, visions of things to come. Tecumseh asked Elizabeth for a vision, and after several days pass, she tells him of a man who will come to their village in friendship. No one is more surprised than Elizabeth when the man appears with the morning sun just as she envisioned. But evil lurks even in the most tranquil of settings and Tecumseh’s brother accuses the man of her vision, Will Douglas, of being the devil. To defend his honor and hers, Will must run the gauntlet. His life or death will decide her own. Governor Harrison of the Indiana Territory intends to expand the frontier. The Shawnee and other Indian tribes are to give up their land or suffer the consequences. The Shawnee, Tecumseh’s tribe has already given all they can. Tecumseh wishes for a united Indian Nation where they can live just as their ancestors had for generations. The British in Detroit have long guns and cannon aimed at the Americans. It is only a matter of time before war breaks out.