In 1925, in a small Washington State community made up of families from different ethnic backgrounds, twelve-year-old Cuss tries to stay in school as he watches those around him struggle with various financial difficulties.

Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she's more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.

Vietnam veteran Bob Beldon finds himself looking over his shoulder after his war buddy Max Russell is found murdered in the bed and breakfast owned by Bob and his wife, Peggy, and matters become more complicated when Russell's fragile daughter shows up looking for answers that no one seems able to provide.

Charity Truitt facing crises of career and heart falls in love with her opponent from a failed corporate merger only to discover that they are caught up in a series of murders and must catch the killer before they become the next to die.

The three Grey sisters try to keep the family together, despite their different personalities, but when a stranger comes into town loyalties are tested and secrets are revealed after a scandalous crime awakens the family and the town.