Seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln's boyhood dies when his father drags their family from the relative comfort of Kentucky into an unforgiving Indiana wilderness. While suffering rebuke for teaching himself to read and write, Abraham endures rumors of illegitimate birth, escapes death a half-dozen times, labors to repay his father's debts, and grieves the deaths of his infant brother, angel mother, precious sister, and beloved sweetheart.By his early thirties, he casts off his parents' religion, becomes estranged from his closest friend, and loses faith in his own character when he breaks an engagement to marry a woman he doesn't love. He spirals into life-threatening depression. In the prime of life, unable to keep a pledge made to his dying mother to become someone special, he wrestles with self-doubt, abandons politics, and resigns himself to a life of mediocrity. But when his long-time rival opens the door for slavery's expansion across half the globe, Lincoln faces the greatest...

Intriguing, intense, moving, raw. A place you shouldn't go, but Jacob went ...Sixteen-year old Amy escapes her captors in the rugged Sierra foothills only to discover freedom's steep price. Billionaire Jacob Chandler turns fugitive in the same hostile chaparral, risking his life to keep from spiraling out of control. But the wilderness isn't their only enemy. Amy's sociopathic abductors want her back and won't let anyone stand in their way.