Ever since the sudden death of her parents, Nona Conrad has looked out for her younger sister Maggie. Now the two sisters are looking forward to a fresh start in Arkansas. The picturesque town seems like a reprieve until Nona is threatened by a well-dressed stranger and spars with Simon Wright, the infuriatingly handsome owner of the camp where she works.

When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant.

Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone. But now she's at a loss as to how to handle the defiant teenager he has become, even as she struggles to keep her family financially afloat. She's fresh out of ways to turn her luck around-until a daring stranger's unexpected kindness sparks hope she hasn't felt in a long time...

"... a young woman takes over a frontier hotel during Oklahoma's oil boom and carves a place for herself in a man's world"--Jacket.