After four years following the rails as the Union Pacific Railroad was built, Fancy moves to Virginia City to take on the Comstock Lode. After she builds a hotel, restaurant and saloon, she decides to invite her banker friend Bob Gentry to join her in building a bank. Her father Tom Greene and her manager and good friend Jake Thompson both know Gentry is in love with Fancy. They're both pretty sure she loves him, too, but she can't see it. She insists they're just friends. Finally, she discovers she herself has been standing in the way of her own happiness. She realizes all of a sudden that she is in love with Gentry and has been for a long time.

When bank robbers steal Fancy's horse and buggy, her baby sister Danni is in it, and they take her with them. Fancy and her friend Phyllis and Phyllis's servant Hera chase after them, but the robber/kidnappers are already out of sight before they can get started. Follow Fancy in her chase through five states as she searches for her sister and the couple who kidnapped her.

After their wedding, Fancy and husband Bob Gentry settle in the new town of Seattle to begin their lives together. They begin to establish roots which will make them leaders in the community. When their first child is about a year old, they decide to take a trip back east to visit Bob's sisters and their families. They stop in San Francisco for a few days before boarding a train for the east, and while they are there, Fancy's old nemesis Priscilla Mayfair tries to kill all of them. Danni Potter's beloved pa-with whom she grew so close after the death of her ma-tells her they weren't her biological parents before his death. He encourages her to look for her family after his death, but when she leaves town a backwoods mountain man kidnaps her to be his and his brother's slave. She shoots both her captor and his brother and escapes, continuing the westward journey she started before her capture. When the captor recovers from his wound, he begins searching for her. Can she avoid the man stalking her? Can she find the family she remembers nothing about?

This is a collection of devotionals, primarily from emails received over a period of years. At the end of each emailed devotional the author adds his own thoughts on the subject. There are also several pieces originally written by the author.

Fourteen year-old Fancy has spent months on the trail of the people who kidnapped her four year-old sister Danni. When she finds the man, he's been killed by his female accomplice, whom Fancy finally finds, only to see her dive to her apparent death when she hits the riverboat paddle. Losing hope, she goes to join her friend Phyllis Compton in Louisville, where she has opened a saloon with Fancy as an absent partner.

Devastated after the murder of her friend, Fancy can't stand the haunting memories attached to her life in Louisville, Kentucky. After much thought, she decides to head west. Thousands of Union Pacific workers will be far from home seeking recreation. The situation should be ideal for an experienced saloon owner to build a mobile saloon and follow the construction.

Widower Thomas P. Greene has to leave his daughters, fourteen year-old Fancy and four year-old Danni when he is called into the service of the Confederacy at the beginning of the war. He knows Fancy is a responsible kid, and he's taught her everything he could about how to run their family farm-planting, nurturing, harvesting. He hates to leave her with all that responsibility, but he has no choice. Only a few months into the war, he is captured by Yankee soldiers at Antietam. He is then taken to a prison camp at Fort Delaware, where he spends the remainder of the war, poorly fed and his wounds untreated. When the Yankees finally release him at the war's end, he is penniless and still has untreated war injuries, and he has to make his way back to Florence, Alabama on foot. Finally reaching home a year after his release, he finds his girls gone and his home and farm taken over by an unscrupulous neighbor who tries to kill him. No one knows where his girls are. Follow the adventures as Tom tries to rebuild his life and find his beloved daughters.

When bank robbers steal Fancy's horse and buggy, her baby sister Danni is in it, and they take her with them. Fancy and her friend Phyllis and Phyllis's servant Hera chase after them, but the robber/kidnappers are already out of sight before they can get started. Follow Fancy in her chase through five states as she searches for her sister and the couple who kidnapped her.