Staring at the notice, Cassidy Sinclair can't believe she is even considering the offer. What kind of man would be so desperate as to advertise for a wife? Then again, what other options does she have? With her parents and brother dead, she has no family left besides an orphaned seven-year-old niece. They have no home and no money, and there are no jobs available for a thirty-five-year-old spinster in a frontier Kansas town. When she agrees to meet Wendell St. John III, Cassidy has no idea of the adventure she is about to face. The needs of a guilt-stricken widower and his four motherless children, as well as the dangers of life on a prairie ranch, will challenge her faith as nothing else has. Will the pain of her new family's past haunt Cassidy's future? Or will she ultimately find the love for which she has always yearned? Heartsong Presents #424, March, 2001.

Already frustrated by the incorrigible students she teaches on the Kansas frontier, Tarah is further troubled when Anthony Greene, the one man she has always loved, returns to town. And she is certainly not ready to graciously accept his apparent preference for the simpering Louisa Thomas, the banker's daughter who obviously has designs for the handsome young preacher. But the appearance of two abused children in the community changes everyone. How will Tarah be able to win the trust of Laney and Ben and help them to build a new life? Will she be able to accept the gifts of friendship from Anthony, if that is all he is willing to offer? And will her heart be open to lessons God has for her in a situation that seems to offer only heartache and loneliness?

Tomboy Laney Jenkins has all she ever wanted in Harper, Kansas—an adopted family, a job, a home of her own... but most of all, Luke St. John. Impetuous by nature, she decides to prove to him that she's more than just another cowhand. Luke, a rancher, dreams of heading off to Oregon. He figures a woman belongs with her man—and since Laney's kiss just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she's the woman for him, he considers the matter settled. He should have known better—Laney is the most unsettling woman around. But then again, he's one stubborn man. What will it take for them to listen to the Lord and find a love that can endure?

When given the opportunity to buy the local mercantile, Emily St. John snaps it up - mostly because it will allow her to work side by side with the man she's loved since childhood. Surely, he'll finally pay attention to her. But Jeremiah Daniels can't believe it. He's scrimped and saved in order to buy the store he works in... and he's waited to court Emily until he had it and could provide well for her. Now, he figures, she can just keep her store and spend her spare time working for women's suffrage. He's going to open a shop of his own. All is fair in love and war, it's said - but can this stubborn pair rise above their pride and see God's plan is for them to be together?

Meet four survivors who've tossed social convention to the prairie winds in order to make their way on the frontier. Cassidy Sinclair is alone with a niece to care for—"and extreme times call for daring measures. Tarah St. John's life changes drastically when she reaches out to two abused boys. The impetuous Laney Jenkins is determined to hold on to the reins of her destiny, regardless of any man. When Emily St. John jumps to buy the focal mercantile, she has no idea of the battle that will ensue. Can these determined women open their lives to new possibilities in faith and love?