Janette Oke

Beth Thatcher's excitement over her return to Coal Valley, her anticipated engagement, and the expansion of her school is mitigated by the arrival of a new teacher whose philosophy of education clashes with Beth's beliefs.

Faith in God and the determination of youth sustain nineteen-year-old Marty after her husband is killed on their journey westward and she is forced to face the uncertainties of the frontier alone.

"Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away. Concerned for the trio's safety, the sisters will do all they can to find the children. But the runaways are not the only thing putting the future of the children's home in question. Lillian is faced with choosing between her dreams...

Clark and Marty's daughter, Missie, and her husband, Willie La Haye, face hardships as they travel west in a covered wagon.

Leaving her sister Anne at the Harrow estate in England, Nicole sets sail for the American colonies to manage her uncle's lands and finds her loyalties and faith tested during the American Revolution.

Marty and Clark, the pioneer couple initially thrown together afer the deaths of their first spouses, now preside over a growing nunber of youngsters in their prairie home.

Nicole and Anne have gone from sisters to best friends, but when Anne and her young son follow Nicole to their uncle Charles's English estate to become his heirs, they struggle to overcome the trials of keeping their birthright secret.

Shandy the lamb, rejected by his mother and the other ewes, is cared for by a young boy until he is big enough to try to rejoin the flock of sheep.