In MISSOURI CHALLENGE, Daisy Smithson and Tim Wells are reunited after seventeen years. They first met in Missouri at the age of eight and became fast friends. However, the night before Tim departed for Oregon with his recently widowed mother, Daisy dreamed they would one day marry. After she told Timmy her dream, he couldn't get away fast enough. Now, he has returned to Missouri to appease the constant tug in his spirit. His intent is to visit the farm he was raised on so as to lay to rest the ghosts of his past. Little does he realize he's about to discover a love that most people only dream of. Trent Garrett reconciled with his brother, Rush Garrett, five years earlier for sins he committed with his brother's first wife, but the past still haunts him. Although attracted to Arizona Cayson, a squatter on his land, he makes no effort to deepen their relationship. The arrival of Tim and Daisy Wells only serves to enhance the loneliness he always feels. Fate is about to come knocking on his door with a wake-up call.