This is the story of Michael Morgan, son of Charlie and Lucy Morgan of Wyoming, who are introduced in Hoofprints in the Snow. Michael is on his way from a suburb of Los Angeles, California, to Wheatland, Wyoming, to see his dying mother. Along the way, Michael reviews many important episodes in his life which shaped his present. Thomas Wolfe said You cant go home again. But Michael does go home, realizing that, after almost fifty years, things are not the same and home is not the same as his memories.

Dr. Jim Hawley is an ER doctor in Wheatland, Wyoming. He has a horse ranch just outside Wheatland with twenty-five horses, ten rescue dogs, and one goat. He was raised in south Arkansas, at the site of a Civil War fort. He is married to his lovely wife, Koni, and has one daughter and two stepsons.