A Young Woman Dreaming of Freedom... Sophie Davenport feels like a prisoner in her own house. In her twentytwo years, her overprotective parents have taken every possible measure to keep her from anything that might exacerbate her asthmain other words, just about everything but reading and needlework. Yet Sophie longs for adventure...and for love. She corresponds clandestinely with a wouldbe suitor, until they meet and her wheezing scares him off. It seems her fragile health just might sentence her to a lifetime of monotonous inactivity. A Young Man Dreaming of a Family... Josh Harper is far more bookish than his brawny brothers. The middle child, he enjoys helping at his familys stagecoach stop in Kansas, where he spends a great deal of time crafting furniture and other items out of wood.
