The harrowing call comes from the NYPD: Willy's ex-wife Mary has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment, and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgivings that deepen when he sees Mary's sad corpse on a gurney. Because of a fresh puncture mark in her arm, the police think she overdosed. But Willy has doubts. Driven by loss and guilt, Willy searches...

After losing her child, Ginger Dysart was lost in grief. But since landing in Thunder Point, Ginger is finally moving forward. Her job at the flower shop is fulfilling, and she's excited to be assisting with the Lacoumette wedding. - In spite of her heartache, Ginger is swept up in the pleasure of the occasion. But the beauty of the Lacoumette farm and the joy of the gregarious family are ruined by an encounter with the bride's brother. Struggling...

When his gold mine proves empty, Juniper's husband vanishes, and the other pioneers flee the dwindling boomtown where they lived. As winter blows in, Juniper pens a series of letters to her husband but fears she is waiting on a ghost, or worse, an outlaw. A century later, trying to escape the heartache of his failed marriage, Johnny Sutherland throws himself into restoring a hundred-year-old abandoned farmhouse in California's San Jacinto Mountains...