Winston and Leah Freemont have raised their family on the canal. Winston bought a canal boat and decided to work the Ohio Erie Canal in 1830. Now, twenty years later the family must make a new decision. With their oldest son ready to marry, their wild middle son traveling west to strike it rich in California, their oldest daughter falling in love, and their youngest daughter not wanting to grow up. The family must endure with Christ pulling their boat on the towpath of life. Aubrey Freemont has worked the canal with her family for twenty years. She only left once to attend finishing school. Dreams of her own have settled in her heart. The canal has been a way of life for as long as she can remember, until Grant Wilkerson shows up looking for a job, and some of those dreams begin to come true. However, this man has secrets of his past and a connection with one of the bogtrotters that once claimed to be in love with Aubrey. When Aubrey is kidnapped and hid away for a ransom, she can only turn to God, who has always been her strength. The strength her parents taught her she had to possess to endure to the end. Will the Freemont family make the right decision? What will they do when a new opportunity comes knocking at their door? Could this new opportunity be the start of something new and incredible for the family? Will Aubrey trust God no matter what happens? Who is Grant and what is he hiding? Strength to endure with the Lord is what the Freemont family has believed for a lifetime, will this belief stay settled in their hearts or will they yield to what the world has to offer?