In the midst of an Acorn Hill summer, a husband and wife arrive at Grace Chapel Inn full of questions about the B & B and how it is run while a young man on a mission walks into the Howard sisters' lives, relieving their cares and bringing romance to one of Alice's coworkers.

When Jane falls and ends up on crutches, the Howard sisters are hard pressed to make arrangements that will keep Grace Chapel Inn running smoothly.

Beverly steps into her new role as town mayor but a figure from her past threatens to disrupt her newfound sense of purpose. Meanwhile, Diane finds herself writing about her cancer, Shelley's mother makes a rare visit and Margaret is stunned when Allan is suddenly hospitalized.

When Miriam Maxwell returns to her Chesapeake-area hometown to take over her late sister Ruthie's antiques store, she reconnects with Bess Watkins, an old friend who, along with her granddaughter Phoebe, begins helping Miriam with the shop. As Miriam struggles to organize her sister's jumbled store, her very first customer turns out to be Samuel Bentley whom she dated in high school. He buys an heirloom desk and later discovers, hidden in a drawer,...