Plot Synopsis

Based on Janette Oke's "Love Comes Softly" book series. While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron and his children for Christmas. Settling in nicely with her brother's family, Ellie also meets Erik, a young man abandoned by his outlaw father whom Aaron has taken in as one of his own. Ellie agrees to watch her niece and nephew when Aaron travels out of town to purchase adjacent farm land. Weaver, a corrupt attorney, sees the Mayor hide design plans for the town's new railroad in his barn. Weaver sneaks in to steal the plans and inadvertently burns the barn down. At first Deputy Strode believes Erik to be the culprit but soon discovers the truth about Weaver and hauls him off to jail. Meanwhile Ellie begins to worry about her brother who has been gone way too long. When all seems lost, she receives a holiday miracle when a jovial man named Nicholas delivers her brother home safely on Christmas morning. He seems to have brought Christmas cheer to all as Ellie and Deputy Strode begin to fall in love.