When Alphonsine's husband is forced to close his hardware store in Montreal, he decides to move his family to Rapid City, Dakota Territory. Join this French Canadian family as they adapt to frontier life.
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Alphonsine sat on the uncomfortable seat and thought about what life had been like in Montreal. She recalled worshiping at St.Jacques with Charles and the children, and she thought about her mother and her sisters. "When,if ever, will I see them again?' Her throat tightened as she remembered her best friend and housekeeper, Elisa.
A novel about a family during World War II, set on the homefront in Springield, Mass., and in the South Pacific. The book focuses on four characters and how their lives were affected and changed during the war years.
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
