When Comes the Spring

Its place in Canadian West

When Comes the Spring is book 2 in the Canadian West series. It follows When Calls the Heart. It is followed by When Breaks the Dawn. 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…