Sarah Roswell-Delaney is the beautiful and timid daughter of Everett Roswell, a widowed man living in the town of River Valley (later renamed Redemption Valley) and had headed into teaching at the newly built schoolhouse, with help from friends, Gwendolyn Barker and widow Emily Trentwell. Sarah has but one admirer, the malicious landlord Silas Delaney, who forces to cast her and Everett into the streets-- unless she marries him.
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