Moving to Pine Mountain, a dying tourist town, newspaper editor Maggie Carpenter makes friends but encounters mysterious opposition to revitalizing the area. What dark secret threatens the town—and Maggie's search for true love?

Follows Maggie Carpenter and her son as they get used to their new community and become involved in a young runaway girl's traumatic search for her missing father.

In this third book of the Whispering Pines series, Carlson pens a story of love, new and renewed, and of God's redemptive tenderness. Maggie didn't come to Oregon looking for love, but she may have found it with Jed Whitewater. Or did she? She soon wonders if Jed will ever be able to share his heart with her.

In the final title of the Whispering Pines series, Maggie Carpenter and Jed Whitewater are planning a springtime wedding until Jed's old flame comes to town. In the meanwhile, Maggie, as editor of the Pine Mountain paper, strives to settle a land development controversy that threatens to tear the town apart.