Trygve Knutson is devoted to his family and his community. With his construction job, he's helping to build a future for the North Dakota town of Blessing. Yet he sometimes dreams of other horizons -- especially since meeting Miriam Hastings. Miriam is in Blessing for practical training to become an accredited nurse in Chicago. But her growing attachment to Trygve soon has her questioning a future she always considered set in stone.

Deborah MacCallister, head nurse at the Blessing hospital, has loved Toby Valders since her school days, but she's had enough of their on-again, off-again relationship. Toby truly cares for Deborah, but he's never felt like he could commit to marriage or a family. When Anton Genddarm, the new schoolteacher, comes to town, the young women of Blessing see a chance to force Toby's hand with a little strategic matchmaking. But real sparks fly between...

This book provides a description of North Dakota's history, geography, economy, and culture.

Amos Decker, the FBI consultant with a perfect memory, and Alex Jamison FBI. Return to solve a gruesome murder of a young woman named Irene Cramer, in a booming North Dakota oil fracking town. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, bringing with them problems, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution and now agruesomee murder.

"Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family...

When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?

Presents current state facts and statistical data, up-to-date details on cities, economics, geography and climate of North Dakota, the Peace Garden State.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

"After grasshoppers destroy every last morsel of vegetation after yet another drought, Hannah and Jerry leave the North Dakota homestead and return to the fertile soil of Pennsylvania. When tragedy strikes again, Hannah is suddenly a widow and grapples with her faith, struggling to understand who she is and where she belongs"-- Hannah has put everything into building up her family's homestead in North Dakota. Despite the Great Depression, unpredictable...

Astrid Bjorklund is on the Red Bud Indian Reservation in South Dakota trying to stop a horrific epidemic. The elders are suspicious of her, but when some of their people begin to recover, they allow Astrid to continue caring for the sick. Upon returning to Blessing, she learns that the man she thought she loved cannot accept that God has called her to be a doctor. Heartbroken, Astrid fears she may have to give up her dream of marriage and family.