Left widowed with six children, Ruth does not know how she will be able to make ends meet, but as Christmas approaches, generous gifts begin anonymously arriving at her doorstep, leaving Ruth to wonder if they come from a new admirer.

When a plague of grasshoppers destroys their homestead in North Dakota, Hannah and her husband return to Pennsylvania, but tragedy strikes, leaving Hannah a widow struggling to understand who she is and where she belongs.

How long will Edna have to wait for the love of her life? For years, Edna Miller has found herself drawn to Emery Hoschtettler with an attraction she can explain no better than she can put a stop to it. Other suitors come and go, but none make her feel the way she feels around Emery-that incredible floating feeling, as if she was walking on air, mixed with a painful desperation to be ever nearer to him. Despite the fact that Emery seldom seems to...