While searching for the remaining family members of an elderly neighbor, Mae Wilkey meets Tom Curtis, who reluctantly returns to town to become caretaker to his ailing long-lost aunt.

Fifteen-year-old Hannah and her family move from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to North Dakota, where they face harsh realities far from any Amish communities, forcing her to work on a cattle ranch, where she meets a charismatic English boy named Clay Jenkins.

"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...