Elise Merriwether just turned eighteen two months before finding herself on a train bound for the West. She grew up in a mansion in Washington, DC. The daughter of a prominent senator. After the death of her parents, she lost her inheritance to her greedy Uncle Felix. Now she has no choice but to search for her kind-hearted Uncle Charles in Lawrence, Kansas. She is hoping he can help her find her place in life. It is the 1860's it is not safe for a woman to travel alone. She finds she has no choice. Elise longs for a love like her parents shared. She is more afraid to marry a man she doesn't know or love than she is of the stories of the Wild West. On the train she makes friends with a woman named Rose. Knowing Rose will change the course of her life. Once in Kansas, she meets the handsome, brown-eyed Cooper Harrison. She isn't sure if she can trust him. She met him the first time coming out of a saloon. This book follows Elise through the ups and downs of finding her faith and inner strength. Will she have the love that she desires? Will she lose the only man she could ever love? Years later, we follow her daughter as she finds her faith and hope that God has a good life planned for her too.