Aven Norgaard understands courage. Orphaned within an Irish workhouse, then widowed at just nineteen, she voyaged to America, where she was wooed and wed by Thor Norgaard, a deaf man in rural Appalachia. That the Lord saw her along the winding journey and that Aven now carries Thor's child are blessings beyond measure. Yet while Thor holds her heart, it is his younger brother and rival who haunts her memories.

"Thor Norgaard hasn't spoken to anyone in his twenty-eight years, but when the young widow he loves crosses an ocean to live on his Appalachian farm, this reclusive alcoholic will brave much more than words to heal her heart"--

Settling into a simple life in the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, Lonnie and Gideon O'Riley have finally found happiness after the rocky start to their marriage. The roguish bluegrass musician has fallen in love with his gentle wife and the God she serves, and Lonnie rests secure in his tenderness for her and their young son. Then a heartless ruse brings them back to Rocky Knob -- to face the claims of a woman who says she is Gideon's rightful wife....

"Four historical women, their lives in transition ... find joy in the memory, discovery, or receiving of a treasured heirloom and the love it represents. Betsy is brokenhearted to lose an heirloom watch, and its buyer won't return it. Wren cautiously welcomes back the boy-turned-man who disappeared four years ago. When Clara's father is injured, she borrows a neighbor's son to help on the farm. Darla returns to her hometown determined to recover both...