chapter 2 : butterflies chapter 3 : eight eyes chapter 4 : cookies chapter 5 : ornery chickens chapter 6 : miz pitts chapter 7 : barn-raising chapter 8 : wedding day chapter 9 : honeymoon blues chapter 10 : awakenings chapter 11 : tidings of great joy chapter 12 : luke chapter 13 : birthdays chapter 14 : life 's twist chapter 15 : endless despair chapter 16 : toothless charlie chapter 17 : sorrow expressed chapter 18 : revelations chapter 19 : homecoming epilogue author 's note stranded in oasis ( excerpt ) cry of the west : hallie ( excerpt ) novels and novellas by verna clay chapter 1 : courage or folly ?