Linda Brooks Davis

The year 1914. While American women are demanding the vote and the first flames of the Great War are igniting Europe, a battle of a different sort rages in Oklahoma. The thermometer registers 106 degrees, an out-of-the-ordinary occurrence, even for the 28th day of July....

As an aspiring newspaper reporter, Blossom Evans expects to find plenty of material with which to carve out a career. But alarming tales about the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas abound. Barely tamed, rugged brushland. Mexican bandits. Wildcats, rattlesnakes, and tarantulas....

When God's plan collides with a woman's single-minded will, lives change - if she'll let them. Ella thought adopting five daughters a month after her wedding would be difficult. Sixteen years later, letting go of her eldest is even harder....

Orphaned as an infant, Oklahoma heiress Adelaide Fitzgerald has enjoyed every advantage. She possesses a gift for music and has excelled on the opera stage in Italy. As a philanthropist, she's adored from America to Europe. But Miss Adelaide is about to awaken in a 1918 nightmare....

Ella McFarland sits on the precipice of her life's dream: teaching at Worthington School for Girls. But in the male dominated world of 1905, scandal clouds her family name and may limit her to grueling farm labor in Indian Territory....

In A Christmas to Remember listeners of The Calling of Ella McFarland revisit Ella and her husband Andrew in the cottage along Rock Creek. Three years into their marriage, their life - and they, themselves - have changed....

Broadview is attired for Christmas. Garland encircles the front pillars. Wreaths grace the doors. Candles glow in the windows. And bangles sparkle on the tree. Adelaide is hosting two dear young girls in Broadview....