When Shannon Adair accompanies her minister father to the western gold rush town of Grand Coeur, Idaho, she is certain she will never be happy away from her beloved Virginia--and that she will not lose her heart to a man who is neither a Southerner nor a gentleman.

In a novel that spans decades, the lives of two young couples become intertwined when the husbands are appointed co-ministers of a venerable New York City church in the 1960s.

Electing to marry her fiance after he is hospitalized for depression, Margaret commits to decades of love and faith involving their brilliant eldest son, their responsible daughter, and a tightly controlled younger son who help her care for her increasingly troubled husband.

"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"-- Provided by publisher.

Through an antique ring, a Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the man who saved her unearth the history of a woman who suffered losses in the Boston Massacre and was torn between the love of two men, one a patriot, and the other a Redcoat.

Coming of age in an insular cult, 17-year-old Jacob anticipates the Apocalypse he has been told is imminent while struggling with his faith alongside his new friends from the outside world.

A chance at reconciliation for two exes who reunite by chance in a 1920s Alaskan hotel is challenged by painful losses, wartime trauma, a violent first marriage and questions about their faith.