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This is a great series you won't be able to stop reading until you have read them all. ( )

Newcomer Josepha joins the group after a run-in with her employer that also leads to safety issues for young Emma and her son William. Aleta is brought to faith and forgiveness and reconciliation with a father whose alcoholism had caused her mother and she to run, and her mother to meet with a tragic death. What will Katie, Mayme, Emma, Aleta, and Josepha do when Uncle Templeton leaves temporarily to face up to the consequences of his earlier years, and Katie's Uncle Burchard Clairborne appears unexpectedly to make his claim upon Rosewood Plantation? Uncle Burchard will let Katie live there, but insists that her four friends and Emma's young son William will have to leave. During the sixty days that are required for him to make a legal claim, the girls do all they can to try to find Uncle Templeton, while their friends Henry and Jeremiah assist them in any way they can. The unexpected arrival of Katie's presumed-dead Uncle Ward Daniels produces the true deed to the plantation, which is owned by Uncle Ward. A reluctant Ward would like to just sign the deed over to Katie, but realizes that she has no legal standing. He helps her locate her Uncle Templeton, and together the group of orphans and misfits forge a family. While this whole series seems an unlikely scenario in the post Civil War South, it nevertheless was a feel good set of stories that breathes redemption through and through. I found each book compelling and all four were very quick reads. ( )

Closing out this series, Mayme and Katie get help from their uncles (and Templeton Mayme's pa.) I liked this book because their were still some problems, but for the most part it was a more joyous book then the previous three. ( )