Mrs. Mike: A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life -- and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon. The search for Joyful: When her dear friend Oh Be Joyful died in a flu epidemic, Mrs. Mike Flannigan opened her home -- and heart -- to her orphaned child, Kathy Forquet. But as the terrors of World War II drew closer to home, Kathy left her small Canadian town to join the war effort and enrolled at a nursing school in Montreal.