Summary: From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high-school football star, her daughter a straight-A student, and her husband the CFO of a booming start-up company. But her father's sudden death disrupts her perfectly...

Summary: John Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican-American War faces anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army.

Summary: John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.