In This Land of Plenty by Mary Smathers introduces the reader to Nicole Sinclair. A woman who finds DNA documents that show a history far different than the Northern European background her father always said they had. With the help of her great-grandmother, she dives...

Unfamiliar Territory by Mary Smathers follows Juanita Castro de la Cruz as she ventures into the turbulent heart of 19th-century California in search of her lost son. Juanita has already endured profound loss, depicted at the end of In This Land of Plenty, and now...