All the books by Janette Oke adapted to cinema and television

The story of Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher accustomed to her high-society life. She receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coal-mining town in Western Canada which is located just south of Robb, Alberta. There, life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Elizabeth charms most everyone in Coal Valley, except Royal Northwest Mounted Police Constable Jack Thornton.

Lillian and Grace are two orphaned sisters, who were separated when Lillian was seven and Grace was five. The two reunite as adults and open an orphanage in a small northwest town. The period piece is set in 1916 in the western Canadian town of Brookfield. Mountie Gabriel has a romantic interest in Lillian. Chuck, a rancher turned veterinarian, is the object of Grace’s flirtations, much to the dismay of his dubious mother, Tess Stewart.

Marty Claridge has just moved out to the West with her husband Aaron Claridge, who dies in a riding accident shortly after. Expecting her late husband’s baby, Marty has nowhere to go and needs a place to stay through the winter. Desperate, she accepts the proposal offered by widower Clark Davis, who offers to give her a place to stay for the winter and provide her with the fare for the wagon train heading back East in the spring.

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 Davis is a young woman working as a school teacher who spends much time reading. Her father has a near-fatal accident but is saved by a mysterious stranger with a troubled past whom Mr. Clark davis characterizes as God’s “enduring promise” making his Daughter think and offering them the chance to plough and plant some wheat ad corn together for the harvest everyday starting at Sun-up, Missie’s Gymnasium being closed for planting season and Willie living currently as a jobless trapper reaching for his Father, Zeke.

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.

On their way to the California Gold Rush, two cowboys are arrested for getting in a fight and damaging a small-town restaurant. One escapes, but Clark Davis stays to work off his debt by fixing a farm belonging to two young women, Ellen and Cassie Barlow. Over time, Clark and Ellen fall in love, but will Clark give up his plans of striking it rich out west for the comfort of a family and home?

During a drought in the 1800s, Clark Davis is having difficulty t making payments on a loan. His well is dry and he is unable to find water while drilling other wells. Clark is transporting water from a river for his livestock and garden. His wife Ellen takes a job as a seamstress to help pay off the loan. She gets afflicted with scarlet fever and dies. Their daughter Missie causes a fire and burns down part of their cabin.

A pregnant Dr. Annie Watson is going to stay with her best friend, Dr. Belinda Owens while her husband Peter is off on a surveying job. Annie’s mother-in-law Mary, a seen-it-all midwife whose homeopathic remedies and folksy wisdom are at odds with Belinda’s scientific knowledge, comes along. While her adopted daughter Lillian discovers the joys and pains of first love, Belinda and her husband Lee find their own relationship suffering over Belinda’s inability to get pregnant.

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.