Jean Holbrook Mathews

From the dark, dangerous, and deadly pits of the Scottish coal mines, to the crowded and bustling streets of Edinburgh, to the perilous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, to the long and arduous trek across the plains to a "promised land," this is the triumphant story of the Hogge and Kenny families and their faith and determination to join the Scottish Saints in Zion.

Sent to Manila to discover why her company's microloan cooperatives are failing, Julia Wentworth discovers that a cleint's two daughters have been kidnapped. Determined to find the girls, Julia recruits an old friend and romantic attachment to help -- detective Monty -- and the pair uncovers a crime ring much more elaborate and dangerous than they could have ever anticipated.

Forced to endure grueling labor in a cotton mill far from her remaining family, Susanna Thayer and her best friend, Jane, become involved with the Mormon Church and are thus dismissed from employment. Using their meager savings for travel to New York, they join a company of Saints bound for California. Yet Susanna's efforts to build a new life are marked by continued misfortune--and continued encounters with the man who abandoned her in the past....

From the dark, dangerous, and deadly pits of the Scottish coal mines, to the crowded and bustling streets of Edinburgh, to the perilous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, to the long and arduous trek across the plains to a "promised land," this is the triumphant story of the Hogge and Kenny families and their faith and determination to join the Scottish Saints in Zion.