Matthew Storm was tired of city living and decided to buy the Sugar Creek Sentinel and move out west. He said goodbye to New York and moved his wife, Diana, and daughter, Rainn, to Oklahoma. It was a big adjustment but they soon learned to love country living. Lars McLaren and his wife, Meg, were anxious to sell the newspaper so he could retire. It was getting harder to run the newspaper and the farm. He wanted to enjoy his last years on the farm. Their son, Lance owned the General Mercantile in Saddle River. Diana and Rainn helped Matthew run the paper. Rainn was his star reporter. She loved digging for stories. Her biggest one was a bank robbery in Sugar Creek. Some months later, while going home from visiting her friend, Willow Cain, a man stopped her on the trail and forced her to go with him. She had no food. The water he gave her was contaminated and made her very sick. By the time her daddy got the million-dollar ransom together, Rainn was lethargic. Would they find her in time to save her life?