Romance, mystery and intrigue are the last things Joanna Jerome expects to encounter on a rainy autumn morning in Galax Falls, North Carolina.

Joanna has given up a promising career as a concert organist when her father, a charming and independent old lawyer, was diagnosed with ALS. Galax Falls seems dreary and boring after the concert stage and the shop Joanna opened to pass the time and re-connect with her home town doesn't fulfill her dreams until one rainy morning when life offers the promise of change with an interesting visit to her shop by the newly-hired English teacher, Russell Benenson.

Inescapable family responsibilities complicate the scene for both, and a kidnapping threatens the life Ben has constructed to save his kid sister and her child from an abusive relationship. The discovery of a priceless manuscript, which then becomes the apparent target in a series of thefts, throw Joanna and Ben into intrigue as they develop a plot to catch the culprit. Guiding the group through treacherous waters, wise old Nicolas Jerome teaches all of them what really counts.

When Freddie Gouge moved to Phoenix, she never expected to see the Appalachian Mountains again. But a disturbing call from Pax, her first, lost love about the illness of her beloved grandmother has brought her home. Weaving has always been vital to Gram's life, the way she expressed the song in her soul, and she has become a respected artist in her later years. At one point, gallery owner, Pax, had tried to have a collection of patterns published, but the book proposal and the patterns have mysteriously disappeared.

Did Freddie take them for a competitor with whom she's romantically involved, proving once again that impulse rules her life? Or did Pax hide them in anticipation of Gram's death and a greater profit? Will love triumph, or are the obstacles just too great?