When Brent Carroll, Atlanta's most eligible bachelor, offers Kat Keller love and a life of wealth and happiness, Kat considers his proposal an answer to her loneliness after her mother's recent death. The whirlwind of engagement activity that pursues, however, cannot completely distract her from a growing uneasiness that started the night her mother died. To buy more time to think, she returns to her friends and family in the Tennessee Mountains.

But is there another reason Kat wants to come back to Tennessee? Dade Mathers, an old family friend, stirs up old pain the minute she returns. Could she still be in love with him? There's not much time to find out because as soon as she arrives, Kat becomes entangled in a dangerous feud over her family's land. Someone is starting fires and danger lurks in the beautiful forests that surround her. Who could be trying to harm her? When Brent follows her to town, she wonders what type of man he really is. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even murder? Is there still time to change her life around?

Dade Mathers hoped that Kat would come running back into his arms the minute he returned to show her that he had become a man of God like her father. Boy, was he wrong. In fact, he wondered if she even liked him anymore. He sure did mess up a good thing they had as kids. Now he has one more chance but Kat has changed so much. She won't even go to church. Worse, Kat is engaged to be married and Dade knows he must hide his affections for her. But when her life is threatened and she has no one to turn to, Dade must decide if it is within his strength to save her and then let her go.

Can Kat's friends and family convince her of God's tender love for her despite what she did the night of her mother's death? Can Dade face the pain of Kat's constant rejection? Read this enchanting mystery romance and find out what happens when Kat Keller learns to love God with all her heart and to trust Him with all her sorrows.