Young widow Katie Malone has been in Vermont for the last year with her twin five year old boys, under the radar, while her brother Connor was preparing to testify in a murder trial that also included an arson charge stemming from a fire that burned Connor and Katie’s family’s hardware store to the ground. Now that the trial is over, Katie is making a cross country trip to reunite the boys with Uncle Connor who has been living in Virgin River in Northern California. Just miles from the mountainous town, Katie’s vehicle has a flat tire in the pouring rain, and although she is largely self-sufficient, machine tightened lug nuts are the slightly built young woman’s undoing. Assisted by a group of motorcyclists, Katie is immediately attracted to Dylan into whom she is sure she’ll never run again. She does, of course, in Virgin River and when she learns he is a former child star looking to get back into the movie business she swears she’s not going to get involved, a vow she quickly breaks, which sets into motion a series of life altering events for both Katie and Dylan.
Virgin River is a marvelous small town that Robyn Carr has built over the course of the series, family by family, including many veterans from the wars in Iraq. Jack’s bar with his cook Preacher remains the focal point of the community and though fewer of the now permanent residents are included in the book than usually are, Virgin River and the nearby Grace Valley remain an inviting place to visit, one readers will want to return to time and time again.
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