Julie Wilder returns to her hometown of Cranberry Cove to live with her aging aunt, Emma Babbage. Julie's nursing career leads her to a position on the surgical floor of Oceanview General Hospital. After she encounters her high school friend, Lucas Ethridge, her former attraction to the handsome lawyer is reawakened. But when she begins to suspect Lucas of a murder that occurred fifteen years earlier, she recalls an incriminating photo she'd hidden in her aunt's antique desk. She searches for the evidence only to find that it's vanished. To add to her misgivings, she gets mysterious phone calls from the murder who warns her to stop her investigations. Lucas Ethridge leaves the big city of Seattle to set up a law practice in Cranberry Cove. When his father, pastor of Cove Community Church, is scheduled for a kidney transplant, Lucas assists his mother with chores at home. But no matter how helpful Lucas is, he'll never please his father. Afterall, Lucas didn't live up to his dad's expectations. When Lucas becomes reacquainted with his high school crush, Julie Wilder, he realizes she still makes his pulse pound. Together, they must find justice for their friend who was murdered their senior year. But how can the two of them investigate a fifteen-year-old crime that was declared a cold case by the police? When incriminating evidence turns up, can Lucas and Julie follow the clues that will lead them to the killer? Will they find a life together in Cranberry Cove?