Dory Watkins arrives in Ragtown in 1854 by wagon train. She finds the love of a good man in the hard scrabble town and discovers her own truth as a pioneer lady.

Lena Carlson and her husband come from the Old Country in 1861 and buy the Mercantile. Lena’s husband dies, leaving her alone and lonely in a foreign land until she meets Henry Barrett, a man searching for his kidnapped daughter. Lena and Henry join forces and find a second chance at love.

Southern Belle Rosy Sherry overcomes her self-doubt and traditional past to take her place in history as Ragtown’s first school teacher. When she falls in love with a loner Yankee sheriff, she discovers forgiveness is the only way to heal a broken heart.

In the gilded age of Edwardian England, when wealth and title were the measures of a man, John Darlington, Seventh Earl of Westhaven, schemes to marry a Wainwright heiress. His ancestral home is near bankruptcy because of death duties, and only marriage to wealth will save him.

The issue of a first marriage, the child shuttled off to boarding school and forgotten, Helen Wainwright is a modern woman who supports herself by teaching school. Upon her father’s death, Helen returns home to discover her family in turmoil over the Earl’s arrival as they seek position and security for her step-sisters.

John must convince Helen that the past is worth preserving and Helen must let go of a past that has rejected her. As the Empire prepares for the coronation of a new monarch, they both learn that life’s greatest gifts are the ones that bring you home.