Ella was less than two years old when she wandered away from her wagon when her family stopped for a break in their journey from Ohio to Milwaukee. How long they traveled thinking their daughter was sleeping in her sleep pod, they did not know.
Vance and Hilda Hintz found the wet, hungry, frightened, child where she turned off the main road looking for her family. They stopped in the first town along their path to report the abandoned child and sent letters each of the subsequent years searching for the lost parents.
As the daughter of a sausage maker, Ella learned to love the products made in the meat market. She jumped at the chance to study at a butcher shop in Milwaukee where she found wonderful friendships and a family that never gave up searching for their long lost child.
The young man that professed to love her was given a choice; either he give up his fantasy of courting the ‘sausage girl’ or he would lose his family backing for his jewelry store. A crushed heart made Ella determined to focus on her love of mixing sausage rather than finding a helpmeet. That is, until she met Griff.