Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.

In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.

After receiving threatening letters from a stalker, Lizzie is forced to return to her childhood Mennonite home and reconsiders her initial judgments of her community and faith only to discover that the danger she ran from is closer than ever.

1884 - When Rebecca Switzer hears that Jesse Montgomery is near Apple Grove, she must see the rugged but dissolute cowboy who had stolen her heart years earlier. Sheriff Colin Maddox is counting the days until he can quit and follow his dream of starting a church. When a lovely woman, looking travel-weary and lost, gets caught up and arrested with the leaders of a temperance riot, he can hardly believe she is a Plain and simple woman. Nor can he believe...

Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

Cassiday Curran's wagon has just been hijacked by three bedraggled strangers on their way to Dodge City. On the run from an abusive husband, Cassiday agrees to share her wagon with the thieves as they search for their uncle.

"In Henry Adams, Kansas, Genevieve Gibbs is ecstatic to be on her own for the first time, even if certain people preferred the doormat version of Ms. Gibbs. Finding someone who appreciates the new her has only just hit Gen's to-do list when T.C. Barbour appears in her life, but the return of her ex may ruin everything"--

Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who is struggling with an aggressive case of Hodgkin's lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her. When a homeless young woman and her two-year-old daughter show up in Bliss Creek, Annie tries to help them establish a new life. But all the good deeds in the world can't change the ache in Annie's heart . . . or help her...

Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.