Patience is a schoolteacher on the Minnesota Prairie in 1893. She loves her job, but when she has to confront the single father of one of her students about his lack of interest in learning, she's left feeling angry. When the two are stuck together in a freak snowstorm in the schoolhouse with Patience's students, they each learn there's a lot more to the other than meets the eye.This book is a sequel to Mail Order Millie and Sleigh Ride.