Missie and Wille LaHaye are on their way to the west. The couple become rugged pioneers as they face all kinds of hardships, including death. Missie fights homesickness, boredom, and being pushed to the limit. Can her faith help her through?

A young widow living in the western frontier marries a handsome widower in a platonic marriage of convenience.

Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher takes a special interest in one of her students who has been selectively mute since her father passed away in a mine explosion.

Jack and Elizabeth leave Hope Vally and ruch back to the city of Hamilton when they learn that Jack's brother, Tom, was involved in a car accident...with Elizabeth's sister Julie! But Tom and Julie are hiding something about the incident, a deceit that puts Jack and Elizabeth at odds with their families...and with each other. Their trip is further complicated when Tom and Julie try to run off together - on a train this time - and Jack is offered a...

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.

Missie and Wille LaHaye are on their way to the west. The couple become rugged pioneers as they face all kinds of hardships, including death. Missie fights homesickness, boredom, and being pushed to the limit. Can her faith help her through?

When the kids form a baseball team, Elizabeth helps a boy come to terms with an old injury; when Robert lies about an encounter with a bear and becomes a town hero, Elizabeth tries to get him to tell the truth.

Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher who left her life of high society to teach out west in Coal Valley, a small mining town. Despite the challenges that now face her, Elizabeth finds her work fulfilling and even finds herself falling for the handsome constable Jack Thornton. However, when both of their siblings are in an accident, a rift forms between Jack and Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Thatcher is a young teacher accustomed to high society, so she experiences culture shock when she gets her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley. Life in the small mining town is filled with challenges. A recent explosion has killed more than a dozen of the town's miners, compelling the widows of those men to work in the mines to earn money.

Jack and Elizabeth make the exciting announcement that they are going to get married. However, Rosemary takes the new too well, trying to plan a wedding for Elizabeth that is far more extravagant than the one she and Jack really want. Jack and Elizabeth are just about to be done with the whole affair and run off and elope, until they realize that celebrating this occasion is important to the whole community of Hope Valley.