After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows. It's life as usual in Mitford. A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who is still running for office? All this, of course,...

Returning home to Gray's Island after spending nine years in prison for the attempted murder of the drunk driver who had killed her son, Alice Kessler joins forces with Colin McGinty, a recovering alcoholic and 9/11 widower, to help the teenage son she had left behind when Jeremy is wrongly accused of rape.