After four years of waiting for fiance Cal Davidson to return, Claire Secord relocates to frontier Omaha to start a new life. After all, many men did disappear during the Civil War. Inheriting and running the family mercantile keeps her busy during the day, but at night she dreams of Cal and the hurt, and confusion returns. Handsome sheriff Tom Maxwell befriends Claire and they enjoy a warm, yet casual romance. When Claire is kidnapped, she must employ all of her faith, skills, and intellect to survive until Tom can locate her. Reuniting, they discover their love for one another and Tom...

Grace Freeport is not who she says she is. As a single schoolmarm in frontier Nebraska she maintains a pen-pal romance with Lincoln attorney Billy Prescott. When Billy returns to Omaha for his mother's funeral he is surprised to find this warm, wonderful woman is strangely reserved. Billy Prescott is the son of the town drunk and a overworked mother. All his life he's struggled to overcome feelings of shame about his father and guilt about his mother's sacrifices for her only child. Success as an attorney in Lincoln has a price to pay. Billy is missing something in life. He suspects it may be...