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When 14-year-old Abby Kate leaves Austin to spend three weeks with her gran in Galveston, she's full of excitement, but things soon go wrong. When she does arrive, her brother's illness means she has to stay for longer and an ill-advised trip plunges her into the Galveston hurricane of 1900.

In August 1914, recently orphaned Cooper Harrison arrives in El Paso to live with grandparents she's never met. The minute the fifteen-year-old steps off the train, everything seems wrong. She discovers that her grandfather Luther not only runs a shady concern but also profits from the Mexican Revolution smuggling arms across the border.

Fourteen-year-old Martha Mary Overstreet only dreams of becoming a doctor until she writes an essay about ""women having a say in their own lives, like choosing whether or not to get married or have children"" - and begins to realize that she can have ""a say"" in her own life.