Melissa takes her deceased cousin's children from Baltimore to Texas to their grandmother. Attracted to the man, can she convince their handsome rancher uncle to see her as a woman who admires him and not a worthless piece of Eastern fluff as he refers to her?

Can Catherine escape from the aunt in Philadelphia who has made arrangements to sell her to a social-climbing but unscrupulous man who wants to marry her to achieve the elite society status he craves?

Does Bernadette have the courage to let the Texas Ranger escort her away from her deceased aunt's husband who is beginning to make inappropriate remarks to her, though the aunt is yet to be buried?

Can Rosemary escape the orphanage before her seventeenth birthday when she learns the almost fifty-year-old owner plans to marry her on that date and arrange a fatal accident for the little three-year-old boy she has befriended because the has a physical deformity?