Anna Dempsey, chased by Chicago mob thugs, ducks into David Tanvold's shop looking for help. They're strangers but David feels a spark and agrees to help her. Anna, brutally treated by different men has serious personal issues to sort out. David, with three purple hearts also has issue. As they flee across southern Illinois, they find develop mutual trust and respect and open up about things they've kept inside for too long. This is a love story about two people who learn they can help each other and in doing so help themselves. In book two, David and Anna are on a train headed for San Francisco. In the middle of Nowhere, Iowa, as Anna calls, it the train they're on is blown off the track by a Chicago thug bent on revenge. David and Anna find residence at t B&B in Ottumwa, along with Harry Reiman, David's long time school friend and army buddy. At the B&B Harry meets and falls in love with an exotic Asian woman, Wai Li Xiou. Book three starts with a double wedding, and the two couples go off on a double honeymoon prospecting for gold in British Columbia. While there, they are enlisted by the RCMP to stop an arms and counterfeit money smuggling operation. These are three connected tales of four people who become genuinely devoted to each other. The tales are about love, commitment, trust, respect, tenderness, and honor. There are surprises, and there is humor, but mostly there is love that manifests itself in many different ways.