Courtney's Christian faith sustains her as failing silver mines, fire, and the kidnapping of her baby girl threaten her family in their valley on the Washington State frontier.

Shamed by her father's drunken indulgences and his promise to sell her as a wife, Rachel Buchanan escapes her house to join a wagon train bound for the West. With her faith in God as Provider, she agrees to a quick marriage to a man she does not love.