Shad Parker was a broken man. The burning of Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War left him a childless widower. So he laid claim to a piece of farm in Gilead, Texas, and shut himself away from the world and everyone in it.Then, during Christmas week in 1867, Shad received some unwelcome visitors--three orphans--who gave Shad a special gift: something to live for. And something worth dying for...
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