she loves her friends and students in the west but family obligations have called her home. where does she truly belong after a year teaching Canada West Beth thatch returns home to her family. she barely has time to settle in before her mother announced his plans for a family holiday luxurious team tour along the eastern coast to Canada and the United States hoping to reconnect and her mother and sisters Beth agrees to join them but she quickly realizes that things have changed since she was away and renewing their close bond is going to be more challenging than she ever expected there is one special thing to look forward to letters and telephone calls from Eric the mountie she who had stolen her heart. the distance between them is almost too much to bear but can she give her heart to jerich when it will mean saying goodbye to your family once again possibly forever? and will she still want to live in the western wilds after the steamship we were opens up a world people and places never imagined?