خلاصه داستان : در یک روز سرد زمستانی یک غریبه مرموز در مزرعه Witting ظاهر می شود. او جان ویتینگ، پدر جیکوب ویتینگ است که جیکوب و مادرش را زمانی که جیکوب کوچک بود رها کرد. یعقوب است ...

The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs father, John Witting, thought long ago dead, hard questions about the past are difficult to get answered.

خلاصه داستان : یک زن نیوانگلندی مجرد به تبلیغات یک مرد اهل میدوسترن که همسرش مرده و بدنبال یک عروس است که به او در بزرگ کردن دو فرزندش کمک کند، پاسخ می دهد.

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.