Paige Crowell, a childless widow in her late forties and bank vice-president, is finally beginning to feel at home in her 1900s house. She had become wary of involvement with any men that came into her life because of her faithless husband, now deceased. But she finds herself with a growing interest in her new pastor, Ken Geitner, a feeling that seems to be reciprocated. Another romance has been going on with the extreme disapproval of her next door neighbor, the officious Martha Metcalf. Martha has been observing the new neighbors, the arty Carpenters, who have recently moved in across the street. Unlike the Metcalfs� son, Rick, who attends prestigious Duke, the Carpenters' beautiful daughter Aurora goes to a small college in Kentucky. Over the course of the summer, both romances blossom, but Stewart Carpenter, originally from Martha�s home town of Memphis, knows a secret that Martha has kept hidden. It takes a tragedy for the two families to decide about the direction their individual lives will take. It is through these troubles that Ken and Paige must decide about their own future.
