John Baxter invites the transplant recipient of his daughter's heart, Kendra Bryant, to Christmas Eve dinner but is met with criticism from his family, while Kendra anticipates that witnessing the family's faith in God will bring hope back into her life.

"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone's favorite family--the Baxters. Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family...

After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows. It's life as usual in Mitford. A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who is still running for office? All this, of course,...

Spanning the era from the 1950s to the present, a family saga follows four generations of women as they face the sorrows and emotional conflicts that tear families apart, and struggle to find the forgiveness and grace that can keep them together.