Always Dakota — Debbie Macomber

Please join me for my third -- and final -- visit to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota. This town exists only in my imagination, but its spirit and sense of community are definitely real. Buffalo Valley resembles many places in my family's history, and perhaps in yours. If you've been to Buffalo Valley before, I invite you to come and visit the friends you met there; if not, prepare to make some new ones!

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, has become a good place to live -- the way it used to be, 30 or 40 years ago. People here are feeling confident about the future again.

Stalled lives are moving forward. People are taking risks -- on new ventures and on lifelong dreams. On happiness. And one of those people is local rancher Margaret Clemens, who's finally getting what she wants most. Marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don't think Matt's such a bargain; neither did her father. But Margaret's aware of Matt's reputation and his flaws. She wants him anyway. And she wants his baby....