I read 3 books of a seríes that I am trying to re read but I have forgotten the name of the series so details I remember are as follows
1) all three have Female main characters,
2) All books are related to a single family and therefore end up in Same place, 1st was set in Kansas, 2nd starts in San Francisco and 3rd in Chicago.
3) First book which is about the Matriach of the family, starts with her running her late father's store with a boy named Billy who is like her Brother, Her Sister is married to a rich bloke who was her Fiance( also later becomes broke but wins a piece of land gambling and gifts the land deed to a young girl who has ranaway but that is for Second book)
2a) Male character is an Engineer and Former US Marshal(soldier?) who is there to investigate the route for Railway as the railway notices a scam going on where the Town mayor and elite push the poor and blacks out of the land so they can sell the land to Railway, the plan is spoiled the Main Characters marry and next 4 books are about their family.
3) Second book Main character (MC) is the Daughter in Law, starts in San Francisco where she works as a maid and her mother is a prositute who had ranaway from home at a young age and MC grews up in Brothel but when she is an adult she becomes a maid where she learns weaving, owner of house dies so the staff loses their job as the house is being sold
3a) MC is running away from mother's pimp reached Wyoming territory where she meets the MC from first book who is a Respected by the townpeople for they helped them doing a previous crisis, Meets the son, meets a Shepherd, starts a weaving business, Pimp comes to town She shoots him with a rifle.
4) 3rd is Story of the Daughter who is a Doctor in Chicago has relation with a Boy who is sort of spoilt but his elder brother is sophisticated ( also the son of the person who had hired the MC of second book), She likes Chicago and does not want to return home, returns home when Billy who is now an old man becomes sick because the Town doctor had given him a banned medicine for Stomach ache,
Ends with Titanic sinking and the Elder brother dieing.
5) next 2 as I remember were on the Mother of MC of second book and Youngest son of the family who returns from WW1 back to his mother's hometown.
Thats it don't remember much more of it.
I thought it had something do with lemon or Magnolias
by Avirajs