In an adventurous saga of the American frontier, an independent young schoolteacher sets off on a dangerous quest to find a new beginning beyond the trail's end. Heartbroken and ashamed at being jilted, Chris Beth welcomes the perils of frontier life and intends to face every crisis as she has all others...alone. Then, thrown together with a small band of settlers in a place ravaged by uprisings, Chinook winds, and devastating floods, she learns to...

Continues the story of Chris Beth Craig and her family and friends in pioneer Oregon.

The ensuing days of deepening love between Courtney and Clint are soon torn asunder by Courtney's struggle between the controlling mother God commands her to honor and her beloved husband, for whom she has pledged to forsake all others

Rediscovery of the lost Blue Bucket Mine lures Rachel's husband from their home. Only her faith in God sustains her in the crisis that follows.

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.