After returning to her native village of Last Chance, Alaska, Leah is kidnapped by her husband's twin brother, Chase Kincaid, and is thrown together with the prickly Helaina Beecham, but as an early winter passage makes it difficult for Leah's husband and her brother Jacob to rescue the two women, Helaina wonders if she'll have the opportunity to tell Jacob how she feels about him.

Explores the roots of the Jensen family, which spawned three generations of legendary frontiersman, by focusing on the clan's rugged patriarch, Smoke, and his fight for freedom and justice in the mountains of the West.

Praying for peace after surviving the Whitman Massacre in childhood, Mercy travels to another mission to help a friend and bonds with a handsome young minister in the wake of a tragedy that tests the strength of her faith.

A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

On the 1845 Oregon trail, when fifteen-year-old Tim Colter's family is ambushed by a gang of criminals Tim is able to escape, but with his parents dead and his sisters missing, he first has to find a way to survive, and then find his sisters.

Barnabas Sackett, with a British warrant issued for his arrest, heads to the American West and begins a new life dealing with Indians and the challenges of surviving in the wilderness.