Love's Abiding Joy

Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's parents. Now, caught between the excitement of the new adventure and the pain of not knowing when she'll see her family again, Missie copes with the challenges, and cherishes the rewards, of her new homestead.

In the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive, she feels as though she's met a hero from one of her novels.

Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda struggles to make sense of the disease and God's plan for the beleaguered town.

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Widower Clark offers her a marriage of convenience: she needs food and money, and he needs someone to take care of his daughter Missie. She accepts his proposal as a temporary solution.

Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch the way a spider eyes a fly.

จากนิยายของโธมัส ฮาร์ดี้ กลายเป็นภาพยนตร์ที่ว่าด้วยเรื่องราวของความรัก การต่อสู้ ความเสน่หา และการไถ่บาป โดยมีฉากหลังคือภูมิประเทศที่กว้างใหญ่และแสนหฤโหดของเทือกเขาร็อคกี้ เพียงเพื่อคว้าโชคของเขา ชายหนุ่มคนหนึ่ง นาม ดิลลอน (ปีเตอร์ มูลแลน) ได้ตัดสินใจครั้งใหญ่อันนำมาซึ่งชะตากรรมของคนหลายคน เมื่อเขายอมขายเมียและลูกเพื่อแลกกับทองคำเพียงถุงดียว 20 ปีต่อมา ดิลลอนกลายเป็นเจ้าของเมือง คิงดอม คัม เมืองเหมืองแร่ที่เจริญรุงเรือง ทว่าโลกของเขากลับถูกคุมคาม เมื่ออดีตอันเลวร้ายที่พยายามลืมมัน ได้กลับมาทวงถามดิลลอนอีกครั้ง

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

Whitney Alder owns interior design firm Marietta Designs, which she runs with her friend Andi in the small town of Marietta, Montana. Whitney is designing Santa’s float for the annual Marietta Christmas Parade when a potential job opportunity comes her way: the full redesign of a landmark home by Christmas Eve.