For anyone who's tired of the usual romantic comedy formula where boy meets girl, boy loses girl, then boy beats insurmountable odds and wins girl back while some snappy pop song just happens to be playing in the background, the latest film based on Janette Oke’s best-selling novels, "Love’s Long Journey," may be just the diversion you're looking for.

Now available on DVD after premiering on The Hallmark Channel, "Love’s Long Journey" is the sequel in the popular film series including "Love Comes Softly" and "Love’s Enduring Promise" and currently ranks as the station’s No.1 film of all time.

In "Love Comes Softly," a young woman named Marty suddenly finds herself a widow in the 1800s and forges a new life on the Great American Plains. But this is no easy task, however, and she finds herself perplexed by an offer to become a “wife of convenience” to the recently widowed Clark Davis. Despite her reservations, her friends encourage her to accept the offer, telling her to “bloom where you’re planted.” And even though it’s tough for her to live with an emotionally detached man and a daughter who misses her mother terribly, Marty serves as the teacher that Clark’s daughter, Missie, needs and eventually finds that love can grow in the most unlikely of circumstances.

In "Love’s Enduring Promise," the story of Clark, Marty and Missie picks up with a grown-up Missie in the spotlight as a headstrong teacher. After Clark injures himself in a wood-cutting accident, the family farm is in danger of collapsing until a handsome young stranger lends a hand. And what could’ve been a predictable love story manages to keep viewers guessing as Missie finds herself intrigued with the new guy, but even more so with another man, played by Mackenzie Astin ("How to Deal", “Lost”), who engages her sense of adventure and desires to do more than what women were expected to in that juncture of history.

So what is it that makes these stories different from the usual fare starring Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan or Reese Witherspoon? Well, first off, it’s set in the prairie era in the1860s. “'Love’s Long Journey' is basically the story of two young people who fell in love and are trying to fulfill a dream of starting their own ranch," director Michael Landon Jr. says. “I was given the books the movie was based on back in the early '90s. What I love most about this story is Janette’s beautiful way of weaving in the faith element of these characters.”