Three Sisters

Three Sisters Synopsis

Bend, Oregon 1909. Hope Dashwood, her sisters, and her mother find themselves in homeless poverty. Hopes' half-brother Anthony has cheated them out of their inheritance. The day after her father's funeral, the family is forced to travel in cold, wet, weather to live in a dilapidated cabin near Sisters, Oregon. Fortunately, relatives soon find, rescue and move the small family to a new home in Sisters. They arrive in the middle of a railroad war between Edward Harriman of the Union Pacific and James Hill of the Northern Pacific ... a situation that Hope will eventually use to her advantage. The girls soon settle in with jobs suiting their interests and education. Hope works for William McCarty in his Dry goods store, where she can use her organizing and writing skills. Bill is a kind but evasive man who is interested in Hope despite being several years older. While Hope does like Bill, she dismisses his interest because of their age difference. A few months after her mother's death, Hope takes a break from work and walks to her gravesite. Stepping off a boardwalk, Hope twists her ankle and is prevented from falling into the street by a handsome and charming young man, Jonathan Willard, who happens to work for the Union Pacific railroad. He helps Hope back to the store where she soon realizes that Bill and Jonathan are enemies and hate each other. Yet Hope is smitten by Willard, though she doesn't know him or that he isn't what he seems. Days later at a party, Hope is introduced to George Putnam, the editor of the Bend Bulletin. Hope manages to convince Putnam to allow her to head out with him into the wilderness to cover the railroad war as a reporter. Now she has the opportunity to see if she has the talent and the tenacity to become a reporter and help restore her family to normal life. But first Hope will have to negotiate romance, gunplay constant work in a dangerous and rough environment; along with the distractions caused by romantic entanglements.