The second book of Woman of the Heartland this tells Doris' story after she is engaged, WWII starts, she journeys to California to marry Tom, they are posted across the country at new Army-Air Corp bases, she had children, Tom is transferred to the infantry and sent to Germany. Her second child, a son Tommy, is born prematurely and becomes ill and dies at three months. When Tom returns home he builds their home and raise their family in it on the Crow Wing River/