Nancy LeSourd

Ruby Mae goes to her old, deserted home to wait for her father for Christmas. Will her father show up?

Letters between two friends, one a nurse in Richmond, Virginia and the other a soldier in Washington, D.C. chronicle their experiences during the Civil War, including their work as Union spies and their reliance on God.

Two Quaker girls, Hannah Brown, granddaughter of the most active abolitionist in slave-holding nothern Virginia, and Sarah Smith, daughter of "conductors" on the Underground Railroad in the free state of Pennsylvania, correspond before the start of the Civil War.

Letters between two young girls, one in London and the other in English settlements in Virginia, chronicle the events during the difficult early years at James Towne and Henricus, and the role of Pocahontas during this period of history.