An old childhood friend of Audra's returns whom she'd like to be involved with. She doesn't know however that he is emotionally disturbed, dangerously so.

Victoria is in a mission church with a pregnant indian woman, when an earthquake collapses it into a forgotten mine underneath. As if the situation isn't isn't bad enough. . they are also trapped with a man whom Nick had fired and who now has a serious grudge against the Barkleys.

Heath feels that his friend's injury and paralysis is his fault, and ends up being used by the man.

15-year-old Lud Akely is determined to take care of his younger siblings without any help from the Barkleys, who are trying to help find the mother who abandoned them.

An old ranch hand tries to prove he is still useful, by capturing a wild stallion . . . alone.

A client of Jarrod's escapes and takes over the schoolhouse where Audra is substitute teacher.

When the Barkleys meet a Mexican fleeing a revolution, they vow to help protect him

A friend of Heath's has been carrying on a correspondence courtship with a woman who is to be his mail-order bride.

When Jennie's house is ransacked by three gunmen, Nick realises his practical joke wasn't so great after all!