When Celine Lowry leaves Viewpoint, Virginia for the west with her husband and four children, the last thing she expects is to lose her whole family and be captured by Indians. Thinking that her life might be over, she’s surprised when she gets a second chance at love with a recently widowed man too. James Morton is devastated when he loses his wife and newborn child while traveling on the Oregon Trail. Distraught and in anguish, he becomes a drifter and expects his life to be taken when he’s captured by a tribe of Indians. He finds himself becoming the defender of a recently widowed woman and the two of them are put in a situation where they have to fight for their survival. Love eventually finds a way of bringing the two hurting people together, even as they become the founders of a new town in the West. The Founding of New Haven begins a beautiful historical saga that will keep you reading from one book to the next. Each story is a standalone tale of love, and even better when read as part of the series.

Melanie Bradford has to escape from her mother’s plans to marry her to just any man and she ends up traveling west with a group of missionaries. She has no idea that she must overcome tribulations in order to find a new life and love. Jesse Lander needs a change from his ordinary life and going west is the solution he finds. He also finds love but has to battle wicked forces in order to finally be with the woman who has stolen his heart. New Haven becomes the place where the two find hope and acceptance.

When Ruth Brewer finds out that her father’s generous inheritance has some very disturbing conditions attached to it, which she rejects. Driven out of the home, she joins a wagon train as its medic and leaves for the West. She soon falls in love with a fellow traveler and they get married, but encounter very frightening problems along the way. Jeremy Mercer can’t bear to see the suffering of others and refuses to be a part of his father’s business empire. Headed west with a group of new friends, he soon finds the love of his life. She proves that she not only loves him, but is also ready to take on great challenges to protect their love and marriage.

When Bethany Newman finds out that she has been sold off to a man way out in Fort Vancouver and is being escorted by her stepfather’s servants, she begins to pray for a way of escape. Brett Flannery is an underground conductor and has been helping slaves escape from plantations in Atlanta, Georgia but soon finds himself in trouble for doing that. Arranging for his own escape, he decides to leave for Fort Vancouver. The last thing the two expect is to find love on the Oregon Trail, but unexpected events make them cross paths and love triumphs in the end.

Nathaniel Tubman is now a free man but his heart yearns for love even as he makes a life for himself in New Haven. His desire is to find the bone of his bone, the flesh of his flesh but out here in the wilderness, it seems highly unlikely that he will meet anyone soon. Dora Flinch is an escaped slave and a number of events finally bring her to New Haven where she not only saves the lives of many of its people but she finds love as well.

Accused of a crime he didn’t commit but vindicated shortly after, Deputy Police Captain Duke Thornton of the downtown Boston Precinct decides to leave town for a while. Following up on an invitation by a friend from the west, he heads for New Haven. Amelia Sharpe is engaged but realizes that she can’t marry her fiancé. Because of the kind of man he is, she decides that leaving town is the safest thing to do. Leaving New York to go west, she soon finds her heart’s desire and love. But when the past comes calling, can Duke and Amelia hold onto love and triumph?

Freed from prison after spending four years there for a crime he didn’t commit, David Lincoln decides to leave Boston and head west for a new life. While in Independence, Missouri, he saves the virtue of a young woman who employs him as a bodyguard but they soon develop feelings for each other. Frieda Worth wants to fulfill her dream of building a girls’ school in the West and on her way to New Haven, runs into some trouble. When David saves her, she finds herself falling in love with him. But trouble comes calling and their love is threatened but then love conquers all in the end.