Canadian West · Book 1
When Calls the Heart
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN-13
- 9781589260047
- Type
- novel
About this book
When Calls the Heart opens Canadian West in 1983 at 226 pages, introducing Elizabeth Thatcher, a well-to-do young schoolteacher from the East who takes a post in a rough Canadian frontier settlement and falls for Wynn Delaney, a North-West Mounted Police officer. It later lent its title and premise to the Hallmark Channel series of the same name, which quickly diverges into its own separate storyline.
Its place in Canadian West
When Calls the Heart is book 1 in the Canadian West series. It is followed by When Comes the Spring. See the full Canadian West reading order.
Canadian West follows Elizabeth Thatcher, a well-to-do young schoolteacher from the East who takes a post in a rough Canadian frontier settlement and falls for Wynn Delaney, a North-West Mounted Police officer stationed there. The first four books, published in the mid-1980s, cover their courtship, marriage, and early life together as Elizabeth adjusts from Eastern comfort to frontier hardship; Oke returned to the series more than a decade later with two further volumes carrying the couple, and eventually their…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781589260047