All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Erin Cottrell, ranked

After lots of planning and dreaming, young couple Willie LaHaye and Missie LaHaye have headed West on the Wagon Trail, leaving behind the hometown of Missie’s parents. Missie is caught between the excitement of the new adventure and the pain of not knowing when she’ll see her family again. Willie and Missie leave the Wagon Train and travel further West to Tettsford Junction. When they get there, they meet a boy called Jeff and his older brother Sonny who they see riding into town with two other outlaws.

Missie LaHaye bids a reluctant goodbye at the grave of her late husband Willie, who died two years previously in the line of duty as the sheriff of Tettsford Junction. Even after giving up her job as the town schoolteacher, Missie has found running the ranch on her own overwhelming, so she has resigned herself to letting her son Jeff and his new bride take control of it jointly with her brothers Aaron and Arnie.

In a time when and place where women were not usually permitted careers, especially in the medical field, Belinda Tyler deeply wants to be a doctor and feels that God has called her to be one. She displays her abilities while helping out a local doctor and caring for Mrs. Stafford-Smith, an elderly woman who recently had a stroke.

Between drought and a cattle plague, Missie LaHaye takes up a teaching position to help support her husband Willie and their two children. They have a young son Mattie, and a baby daughter Kathy. They also have a teenage boy called Jeff who they took in when he was eleven-years-old, when his older brother Sonny had been shot dead in the previous film, Love’s Long Journey, and Jeff didn’t have any other family.

Mourning her husband’s recent death, Dr. Belinda Simpson arrives in the tiny town of Sikeston to fill the post of town physician. Once there she discovers that many of the town’s residents, including children at an orphanage run by Miss Hattie Clarence, have fallen ill or died from an unknown ailment. She soon wonders if she’s in over her head, despite reassurances from her best friend Annie and Lee, the town blacksmith.