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Beatrice Walsh would give anything to go back in time and somehow prevent the tragedy that happened to her family in Chicago twelve years before. Her life and the lives of countless others were devastated by the Iroquois Theater Fire of 1903.Beatrice believes that the injuries she suffered in the fire will eventually claim her life, so she has decided to spend the remainder of her days alone, finding her solace in the piano.Evan Masters has had enough of being alone, since he's been that way since he was hardly more than a boy. He has held an interest in the mysterious piano player since the day she came to Dempsey, but so far all of his overtures have been met with rejection.Can Evan convince Beatrice to rejoin society and take a chance on love? Will they be able to stop the shifty salesman who wants to build an unsafe theater in Dempsey? Can Beatrice trust God and allow him to use her broken song to tell the story of his grace through her life?

Everything Kathleen Able has ever known was a lie. After discovering the truth about her parents, she leaves her home in Little Sicily on a quest to discover who her mother was. The journey leads her to the saloon where her mother died. When she meets saloon madam Rita Dolsen, bitterness against the family who lied to her and lack of other options causes her to agree to sing in Rita's saloon in Dempsey, Ohio.Though she promised herself she wouldn't stay long enough to be compromised, now she's in over her head and her life is in danger because of an obsessed man pursuing her in the saloon. She has one glimmer of hope left. The deputy, Joshua Whitley, has been kind to her. In desperation, she asks him to marry her. Joshua is a devoted man of God with a scarred past he is trying to overcome. The idea of marrying a saloon girl flies in the face of everything he hoped for. Would God ask him to risk his reputation on her behalf? Is there more to Kathleen than he assumes at first?