Journey Home Stories
Before Spencer Wallace became the man Ethan knew, he was a boy raised by a frontier doctor and a Native mother whose love shaped his understanding of family, duty, grief, and home.
What Spencer Learned is a tender illustrated companion to Ethan’s Journey Home, offering readers a glimpse into the childhood that shaped Spencer Wallace and the father whose love stayed with him long after goodbye.
Ethan’s Journey Home - Torn from his mother by an outlaw father, Ethan grows up in the shadow of crime and hardship. From lonely roads to a prison cell, his life becomes a struggle to escape the past and claim his own future. Along the way, unexpected bonds offer the chance for redemption and a new beginning.
Set in New Mexico Territory during and immediately after the American Civil War, The Path Jonathan Chose is an illustrated middle-grade historical story about Jonathan Westfield, father of Ethan from Ethan’s Journey Home. Jonathan leaves Corrine and three-year-old Ethan to serve in the Confederate army. After returning home hardened by war and discovering that thieves have taken his livestock, he rejects lawful help and turns to robbery. Framed by a later conversation between teenage Ethan and his stepfather, Spencer Wallace, the story explores love, family separation, personal responsibility, and the consequences of repeated choices. This standalone Journey Home Stories companion includes an Author’s and Historical Note.
After her husband takes their young son and joins an outlaw gang, Corrine builds an independent life while keeping the search—and the door home—open.
Warmly illustrated and emotionally grounded, The Door Corrine Kept Open is a middle-grade historical story about women’s independence, motherhood, blended families, accepting help without surrendering one’s choices, and hope that endures through uncertainty.
Silvia knew how to make room for everyone else’s story. Sharing her own would take a different kind of courage.
The Story Silvia Kept is an illustrated middle-grade work of historical fiction about family, resilience, boundaries, friendship, and the courage to be known.