When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

"When Blake Dollarhide's half-brother takes advantage of the daughter of a homesteading family, Blake steps in as Hanna Anderson's bridegroom to restore her honor and give her unborn child his name. When the war between the factions rages anew, everyone wonders if Blake will stand by the close-knit community he serves, or the wife he took in name only... A marriage of love is more than Hanna ever dreamed of. But even as she longs to trust the bond...

When their father is accidentally killed, Gwen, Beth, and Lacy Gallatin struggle to maintain their Montana inn on their own, but their plans are threatened by an unexpected visitor, Hank Bishop, who is searching for something that belonged to Gwen's latehusband.

When young Karl Isaac heads west with his family in a prairie schooner, he experiences many things but longs to see buffalo.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

A tale based on the true story of the legendary Hanging Judge finds Isaac Parker inheriting a corrupt court and lawless territory in Fort Smith, Arkansas and enforcing severe punishments in his effort to bring order to the early American west.

Settling in the swamps of early-nineteenth-century Ohio, the Goodenough family establishes an apple orchard that begins a long family battle, and years later, as their youngest son wanders through Gold Rush California, his family's past makes an unexpected appearance.

The Golly Sisters, May-May and Rose, share further adventures as they take their traveling show through the West.

On her way to San Francisco to find her brother, Caleb, who went missing three months ago, Camriann Coulter meets Judith and Kenzie, who both have their own mysteries to solve in the booming West Coast city. The women decide to help each other, including rooming together and working at Kenzie's cousin's chocolate factory. Camri's search for her brother, an attorney, leads her deep into the political corruption of the city-- and into the acquaintance...

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.