A Story of Tender Truths About a Woman’s Desperate Efforts
to Shelter Her Family

Determined to raise her children on her own terms, Emma suddenly finds herself alone and pregnant with her third child, struggling to keep her family secure in the remote coastal forest of the Washington Territory. With loss and disappointment as her fuel, she kindles a fire that soon threatens to consume her, making a series of poor choices...

The Change & Cherish Trilogy, based on the true story of Emma Wagner Geisy, is now available in one volume. "A Clearing in the Wild": When Emma's outspoken ways and growing skepticism lead to a clash with the beloved leaders of her 1850s colony in Bethl, Missouri, she finds new opportunities out West to pursue her dreams of independence, but later discovers she misses the warm embrace of community. "A Tendering in the Storm": Determined to raise...