Prologue: A New Beginning

Faith's Story

For as long as Faith Carter could remember she had always wanted to find a way to help people, so she followed in her mom's path and became a nurse. Her first job was at the Hospital in Hamilton where she had worked for a five years before moving west after meeting someone and moved to where he worked. After a while they broke their relationship off when she decided to stay in the town of Hope Valley where she had been asked to go to see a patient and cover for the doctor she was now working for in Union City. She did not want to stop doing what she loved to do, so she accepted the offer of reopening the town's infirmary which she ran on her own before a new doctor had finally made an appearance in town, but the residence did not know for a while until he revealed his story. Faith had been living in Hope Valley for almost a year and half before the doctor came to town and decided to practice again and this time in Hope Valley with Faith as his nurse to assist him. She had accepted after he had saved the life of a young boy a few months after arriving in town as railroad worker then as a cook for the café for a short time as well according to what Faith had heard around town from the residence of Hope Valley. Being a nurse and what she had been reading and studying on her own time in medical book about medicine helped her to take care of the town's residence on her own as best as she could for close to two years before the doctor gave in and became needed which Faith was grateful for. This was a whole new beginning for her and making her life in Hope Valley permanently.

Carson's Story

Carson Shepard had come to Hope Valley to escape his past and to get a new start. He had gotten a job with the railway, but after getting injured saving a child from a runaway wagon he decided to try to find a new job. One day he was walking past Abigail's café and noticed a for help sign in the window so he goes inside to inquire about it with the owner Abigail Stanton. When he tells her why he wants to job cooking for her after she asks why he says;

"I have the experience needed to cook, I used to work a chuck wagon, plus I hurt myself doing railway work and I thought I would apply for a safer job" Carson says

'well okay. Since I need the help you are hired" Abigail replies, "when can you start" she continues

"how about tomorrow" Carson responds

" tomorrow works see you tomorrow" Abigail responds

Carson enjoyed working for Abigail. He had only been in town for about three months when a friend of his tracked him down and told him about trouble an in-law was going to give him and was heading his way. He was able to calm the situation down and then decided to leave town so as not to cause any more trouble. A couple of hours after he left town, a few of the towns men along with Elizabeth Thatcher ( now Thornton) came searching for him since they knew his story of his past when he was forced to tell it and how he used to be a doctor. It was Elizabeth who had found him and persuaded him to go back to Hope Valley after one of the town's kid Cody needed medical attention and surgery which he performed after much debate between him, another doctor, and Cody's adapted/ foster mother Abigail and he was able to save Cody. This emergency made him rethink his whole job situation so he decided to get back to being a doctor and opened his own practice and Hope Valley and became the towns doctor. He kept on Faith Carter as his nurse and he knew he made the right decision after all as he got to know the towns people and Faith better with each passing day since deciding to stay in town and making a new life for himself.