Sweetwater Station

America's back has nearly been broken by the Civil War. The South is defeated, and the North is victorious. It's time for the Westward Expansion to begin. Not everyone feels victorious, though. Joe Hadley fought for the South against his brother, a Yankee soldier. He lived while his brother died. It tore his family apart, and he no longer feels welcome on his family's farm. He sees his opportunity for redemption in the resurgent stagecoach lines opening up the West for the ordinary traveler. He answers an ad in a local newspaper, only to learn he must have a wife to become a Station Master. The only woman he can picture by his side is Hannah Edison, who was scarred as a child by the fire that killed her parents and siblings. They make their way westward amidst the trials of both a riverboat journey and days spent in a stage coach, replete with political rivalries from the late war, battle-weary men, and people who blanch at the scars on Hannah's face. The three days on the coach reveal what their guests will have to endure, giving them understanding, as well a bit of trepidation, when they realize they aren't prepared at all. Once at the new Sweetwater Station, they face hailstorms and horse thieves. To complicate their lives further, the animal handler hired by the stage line is an ex-Northern soldier who intensely dislikes the idea of working alongside a rebel from the South. Can Joe and Hannah make a new life for themselves and find contentment in each other at the same time?Sweetwater Station is a true-to-life story of what life in the 1860s would have been like for the brave people who challenged a rough and dangerous Wild West, one that only the most intrepid of families could hope to survive.