When your mail-order husband gets stagecoach-jacked, you improvise. Frontier romance meets divine intervention.
In the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive, she feels as though she's met a hero from one of her novels.
Production
Genuinely pretty frontier cinematography for a TV movie
Acting
January Jones before she became Betty Draper, still serving looks
Director
Michael Landon Jr.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is the second in a series of eight Hallmark films based on Janette Oke's 'Love Comes Softly' novels, essentially creating the template for the entire faith-based romance genre.
Michael Landon Jr. directing adds unintentional meta-layering—his father defined wholesome family TV with 'Little House,' and now he's literally filming on the same generic frontier backlot vibes.
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