The East Tennessee sunset was so beautiful that Michael Bentley, owner of an investing firm, forgets to breathe. Tomorrow, the 7th of October 2002, he will meet a shy girl and again he will forget to breathe when seeing her natural beauty as pure and pristine as twilight dewdrops. Six weeks earlier, Michael believed a most special prayer was answered when he became engaged to a beautiful socialite prominent in his circle of Columbus, Ohio friends. After a few hours with this beautiful reticent girl, Sommer Renee Rose, his heart is boiling in confusion - is the socialite wrong and Sommer right? In honest candid conversation, her intrinsic qualities are revealed as he acknowledges the error of his first choice. With full surrender to new dreams so beautiful that few would dare to ponder, he truly believed Sommer was the real answer to his prayer. Temptations in life will happen sure as an apple will fall downward after leaving the tree. While wedding plans were nearing completion, Michael yielded to a temptation so humiliating to his betrothed that she never wanted to see him again. In a gloomy and cheerless hospital room just before Christmas 2003, Michael Bentley sat in remorse. He assumed full responsibility for an accident Sommer had after fleeing his presence in Tennessee. She was in a comma not expecting to recover.

In the closing years of the nineteen nineties, the lives of three people were changed when they realized their eternal refuge was not in the hands of man but in the grace of God. Days of their new life were shuttled between the warp threads of Jesus' saving love. Their blanket of eternal security was embellished with deeds of ministering angels. A college graduate didn't have time for God in her planned life until a new friend told her about the love of Jesus. She later experienced the evidence of an angel when dreams had crumbled due to one of life's harshest realities. A young lawyer trusted the love of Jesus when a single mom told him how angels ministered to her during some difficult times in her life. An unmarried girl, who had drifted to life's lowest estate, was rescued by an angel and learned that ALL her sins were forgiven when she accepted Jesus as her personal Savior. In her new direction, she also learned to lean on Jesus' strength to cope with echoes from her past. Journey with the three couples on their respective roads of life-you can cruise with empathy as bumps, detours, and stormy times are encountered. Feel a special closeness to Jesus as ministering angels provide specific needs in their lives making sweeter the promised refuge of eternal peace in Heaven.

The disagreement between the North and South, which resulted in the deadly exchange of musket and cannon fire, had lasted over three years when Johnson Perry was severely wounded. His soldiering for the Southern States ended in February 1865, with an honorable discharge for medical reasons. He had obediently defended his conviction with spirit and valor since being inducted in January 1863. During his active duty of over two years, he had been wounded three times; contracted the mumps, pneumonia, and typhoid; and continually suffered from chronic diarrhea. He believed in his heart that the reason he survived was because he pledged his word to return to his betrothed, Sally Lou Foster. While wounded on the battlefield in excruciating pain and during long lonely nights of bitter cold and periods of depression and hopelessness, it was always thoughts of Sally Lou that gave him the will to live. More times than he could remember, only the vision of her smile and her letters strengthened his resolve to endure for another day. On his way home to marry Sally Lou, a beautiful young widow, Carrie Butler, gave him shelter from a snowstorm. After a week in her cabin, Johnson Perry's promise to Sally Lou became less important, even though he was taught to honor his word regardless of circumstances. The pain and hardships of war seemed trivial when compared with the torturous decision to continue home to Sally Lou or remain with the widow.

On the Oregon Trail in the spring of 1883, Jenny Supples, a lonely and scared little girl, had no choice but to trust her life with a man she didn't know. Jeremiah "Jerry" Bowles had joined her wagon train just two days before an Indian attack. Only Jenny and Jerry survived. Jenny suddenly had to make a major decision to either return to her home state of West Virginia or to continue westward with a twenty-two year old stranger. Jerry was drifting with the wind and volunteered to escort her in either direction. Her pioneer spirit and adventurous heart outvoted the safer return back east. Along the way, Jenny quickly matured as she faced responsibilities not intended for a young girl. The journey was difficult but the excitement of what was around the next bend and over the next hill compensated for each dusty mile. When she first saw the treeless prairie, stretching to an arched sky ablaze with a glorious sunset, she forgot to breathe. Travel with young Jenny as she survives the dangers and hardships of the Oregon Trail. Rejoice with her when she finds love during the pioneering days of the Old West.