Margaret Buell Wilder

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.

After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.