Finding Home Series: Hallie: Cry of the West, Rescue on the Rio, Missouri Challenge The sudden demise of Hallie Wells' husband after selling their farm and just about everything they owned to travel west on the Oregon Trail, has left her in a difficult situation. Dare she ask Cooper Jerome, recently returned from the War of the States, if he would put his life on hold for, say, five months to drive her wagon; and that doesn't include his return trip. At this point, she's out of options.

In RESCUE ON THE RIO, Rush Garrett is hired by his friends, Cooper and Hallie Jerome, to find Hallie's sister, Lilah Parker, and persuade her to return to Oregon with him. The sisters parted ways twenty years earlier and Hallie longs to be reunited with her only sibling. Lilah yearns for her family, but in her infrequent letters to her sister, she has lied about her occupation. Her sister believes her to be a seamstress, when, in truth, she is a wealthy man's mistress. Lilah's shame and the fear that she will be disowned by her loved ones, causes her to reject the offer of Mr. Rush Garrett of his escort to Oregon. However, fate and the author have other plans for these star-crossed lovers!

Daisy Smithson and Tim Wells met in Missouri when they were both eight years old and became fast friends. However, the night before Tim departed for Oregon with his newly widowed mother, young Daisy dreamed they would one day marry. After she told him her dream, he couldn't get away fast enough. Now, seventeen years later, he is returning to Missouri to appease the constant tug in is spirit. His intent is to visit the farm he was raised on and put the ghosts from his past to rest. Little does he realize he is about to discover a love that truly was dreamed of. Trent Garrett reconciled with his brother, Rush, five years earlier for sins he committed with his brother's first wife, but the past still haunts him. Although attracted to Arizona Cayson, a squatter on his land, he makes no effort to deepen their relationship. The arrival of Tim and Daisy Wells only serves to enhance the loneliness he always feels. Soon, however, fate will come knocking with a wake-up call. This book can be read as a standalone.