Augusta Bjorklund, unlucky in love, decides to leave Norway and start over with her relatives in St. Paul, Minnesota, but her inability to speak English leads to a mix-up that puts her on the wrong train and she soon finds herself at the end-of-the-line where rancher Kane Moyer is waiting for his mail-order bride.

Eleven-year-old Eldon, growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.

Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Besides, no man has ever shown enough interest in her to come courting. So Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing and advising her in the use of feminine wiles. When none of these efforts seem to work, Rebecca tries yet another tack, only...

The sagas of Kaatje, Elsa, Tora and Karl continue.

When Norwegian immigrant Kristin Eikaas arrives in Wisconsin in 1848, she discovers the same prejudice and superstition that she left behind in the Old Country. Her uncle warns her about the "evil" Sundberg family---but she falls in love with Sam anyway. Will she have the courage to follow her heart---and the Lord?

Sophie Knutson, rejecting her father's request to postpone her marriage until after graduation, convinces Hamre Bjorklund they should elope; far from her family Sophie finds that life as a fisherman's bride is not all she had envisioned.

When Nora Johanson hears the conductor's words, her heart begins to race. At last she will be in the arms of the man she has promised to marry - Hans Larson. At fifteen, she was so sure of their love. Now, three years later and far from the mountains and fjords of her beloved homeland, Norway, she wonders...

Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle.

Hanne and her siblings flee Norway after her "gift" causes her to commit murder, and on the American frontier Owen, a cowboy, leads them toward their uncle who may help them learn control.

Tora Anders weaves a web of lies that could cost her everything she cares for-including a successful future and the man she loves-but lead her to what her soul most desperately needs. Her sister, Elsa Ramstad, has everything her heart desires: a loving husband, a family she adores, and a fulfilling life at sea. Then tragedy strikes. Four years after her husband's disappearance, Kaatje Janssen struggles to raise two young daughters and tend her farm....