This third book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Charlotta Johnson, as she recalls the events that shaped her family's destiny on the Kansas prairie. A mixture of fact and fiction about the author's great great grandmother, this book follows the first and second books, Planting Dreams, and Cultivating Hope. Author Linda K. Hubalek, has also written the Butter in the Well, and the Trail of Thread, book series about Kansas pioneers.

This second book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotts Johnson as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie. This family faced countless challenges as they homesteaded on Americas Grat Plains during the 1800s. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality of life for her family-but not without a price.