title: A New Beginning (Kansas Crossroads) (Volume 1)
author:  Amelia C. Adams 
description: Amelia C. Adams is a wife, a mother, and a novelist. She spends her days dreaming up stories and her nights writing them down. Her biggest hero is her husband, and you might just see bits and pieces of him as you read her novels. She loves all things historical and enjoys learning about days gone by, but she's glad she was born more recently (she won't say how recently or not recently) because the Internet is awesome, and she's glad she doesn't have to wash her clothes by hand in a galvanized tub. She has hit Amazon bestseller status twice, once for A Clean Slate and once for A Clear Hope.
zlib_text: The Calm of Night
  Kansas Crossroads Book Ten
  by Amelia C. Adams
   
   
  Dedicated to all those who know the way will be hard—and they do it
  anyway.
   
  I’d like to thank Jackie Godbey Carman, who lent me her ancestor’s
  name to use for my heroine and chose the cover image; Jessica Chappell,
  who titled the book; Cissie Patterson, who told me Kansas really needed a
  storm; and author Marsha Ward, an expert on the Civil War, who let me pick
  her brain.
   
  As always, thanks to my beta readers, who catch the things that slip
  past me—Caryn, Catherine, Erin, Jeene, Jennifer, Mary, Meisje, Nancy A.,
  Nancy C., Renee, Tammy, and Tracy.
  
  Table of Contents:
   
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Sneak Peek
   
  
  Chapter One
   
  Nancy Ann Morgan was not in the slightest bit amused. She had just
  taken a step across the snow-covered ground outside the Brody Hotel, and her
  foot had broken through