In the last book of the Coming to America series, Promised to Me, we meet a young woman Karola Breit from Ireland, who is summonsed to America by her previous boyfriend, Jakob Hirsch.

In this book, In His Arms, we encounter the last of the girls from Ellis Island, Mary Emeline Malone. Fleeing from New York because of a crime she believes she committed, Mary and her young son are not sure where they will go.

Patterns of Love is set in Iowa in 1897. The Linberg family has moved here from Sweden. Their daughter Inga is one of the girls we met arriving in Ellis Island. Giving selflessly of herself, Inga becomes the caretaker of Dirk Bridger’s two young nieces and his ailing mother.

At the start of this series, we are introduced to three young women who have all made their way to America near the turn of the century. In Dear Lady, Beth Wellington, a well to do young woman in England has made her way to Montana in search of becoming the town's schoolteacher.